Absolutely thrilled and honored to respond to ’s story Galatea for . I’ve read it multiple times and it has stuck with me since my first reading. You know the writing is remarkable when you feel immersed in it. ✨🤖✨
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Excited to share the brilliant writing of Program and Communications Coordinator, Suhyun (Sonia) Choi. 🤩 Please read and share their essay "Queerean Experience on Technocratic Culture." It is the first of a two-part series. 👏🏽
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I went on a lil gravestone hunt through San Francisco for
Cemetery stones were repurposed for public works projects after graves were moved to Colma in the 1930s, and they're still spread throughout the city if you know where to look 👻
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Happy new year! We just extended the Logic School application deadline to Jan 13th! We have an amazing group of guests this year, incl , , , , Blunt from + more. We welcome written or recorded applications.
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When the problems facing us are so massive and systemic, how can we ever hope to address them as individuals? To hear & me chop it up on about all things Viral Justice, click here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fac #ViralJustice
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hello, hi! I've assembled a list of 2023 books I'm anticipating from women of color, the year ahead looks about as alarming as usual but hey the books will be splendid 💛
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Mediating the Social: The Excesses of Racial Representation within (Trans)formative Digital Space published to Platform Journal Mediating the Social: The Excesses of Racial Representation within (Trans)formative Digital Space published to...
Despite premature declarations heralding their respective epochal demises, history, race, and truth remain contested sites of durable significance.
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Media, social media, digital culture
Access the article here (platformjmc.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/santos).
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Ultimately, I argue that the excesses of representation show the latter to be true: social media are not transparent spaces, but actively reproduce social affect.
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transparency, moderation, and digital subjectivity, and their much-deserved denouements, to examine whether the mediated spaces of social media constitute transparent, objective sites for communicating social affect, or in fact actively produce reproduce social affect.
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I situate engagement with Herman Gray and Sarah T. Roberts’s texts to interrogate ideas of
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This article addresses these questions, with a particular focus on how and why large social media companies claim the social as platforms not as publishers while denying their de facto identities as Fifth Estate media institutions subsuming and eclipsing Fourth Estate Power.
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The claim of media neutrality therefore makes room for the “excessive” reproduction of “objective” racial and gendered caste categories that allow for possible objections to taking responsibility for the global restructuring of social affect.
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This entails addressing how digital socialization of amplified racial and gendered performances occupies a different ethical ground than the ostensibly
neutral ethics that mediatization might claim.
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That is to say, do “social media'' constitute formative spaces that produce social affect, or do they constitute transparent spaces that mediate affect?
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Does the term “social media,” as a redundant term, accurately describe the processes of algorithmic amplification by which representational excesses get diffused and made legible?
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In this essay, I explore what Gray (2015) calls “the excesses of representation” that reproduce race and gender across proliferating digital platforms. I traverse the digital in tracking and tracing viral inequality, data surveillance, and moderation.
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Mediating the Social: The Excesses of Racial Representation within (Trans)formative Digital Space published to Platform Journal
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getting to direct an opening interactive performance was a new and exciting challenge. many months spent unpacking language across cultural, language, time, and space distances
📷 and shintaro yamanaka (qsyum!), courtesy of yamaguchi center for arts and media
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what does language mean to us? as ai generated text proliferates and we are constantly detected and archived, can we imagine a future beyond persistent monitoring? unlearning language is a new performance installation with , in collab with lauren-mccarthy.com/Unlearning-Lan
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Unlearning Language – Using AI to be less machine-like /
→ creativeapplications.net/derivative-tou
Interactive installation and performance that uses machine learning to provoke the participants to find new understandings of language, undetectable to algorithms.
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Lauren Lee McCarthy
Sleepover, 2020
Virtual recreation of performance, photography, text message
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Will be starting my full-time role as a staff writer at this week. As someone born and raised in the Bay Area with Mexican immigrant parents, I feel deeply honored to write about the hometown communities here. Send any tips/ideas for local food, art, music 🙏
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A Double Coincidence of Wants: Hello 👋🏽 Chat with me? 🙏🏽
A Double Coincidence of Wants: Don't set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm 🔥
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Mastodon is ~in the discourse~, and that means FOSS is too.
We published a conversation between open source devs and on the broad campaign for a decentralized web and Coraline’s fight for social justice within open source.
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Congratulating Rick Prelinger, the 2022 AMIA Silver Light Award honoree. is an explorer of the archival landscape and to enumerate his accomplishments requires more pages than Twitter will allow. #SilverLight #AMIAAwards
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Look what showed up on my doorstep today from ! It’s ’s latest book, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
I tried to make an oil-related Hanukkah joke and failed, but you can imagine one if you’d like
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Finally, published “Herbs.” It’s not about cooking but it is about growth.
joylandmagazine.com/fiction/herbs/
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republished “Get Out and Dance” online and in their Best of 2021 anthology! A story about disappearance and surveillance and a world very familiar to me.
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“Galatea,” my story about robots, gender, office culture and China, was published in alongside a stunning essay by ❤️
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This very short flash piece on culling Ezra Pound was accepted by , a publication immensely supportive of emerging writers and the flash form.
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published “Mycomorphosis,” a story very dear to me. It was the first thing I wrote after leaving a toxic workplace and returning to fiction, and I ate a lot of mushrooms for research 🍄
therumpus.net/2022/08/29/rum
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