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Halavais on Critical Code Studies: Code is Never Neutral
By Safiya Noble on Feb 9th, 2011
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Halavais reminds us in the introduction to this book that the search engine has become such a normative part of our experience with digital...
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Dyer-Witheford's Games of Empire: a Must Read for Critical Information Scholars
By Safiya Noble on Feb 9th, 2011
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Dyer-Witheford's thesis is that virtual games are not only a reflection of offline realities, but that they are a manifestation of capitalism and...
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The continued relevance of Herbert Schiller
By Safiya Noble on Feb 9th, 2011
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Schiller makes a compelling argument about the fundamental shift from publicly protected information to corporate control. Traditional...
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Vaidhyanathan: The mandate for Critical Information Studies
By Safiya Noble on Feb 9th, 2011
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Vaidhyanathan's manifesto is a call for interdisciplinary cooperation and cohesion around critical approaches to the study of information. He is...
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The importance of critical informaiton studies and the digital enclosure
By Safiya Noble on Feb 9th, 2011
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When I think of doing critical information studies and scholarship, I think of it in the way that information, communication, technology &...
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Platforms of Culture: the Making of Generation X
By Safiya Noble on Feb 9th, 2010
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This week I've been reading in Platform Studies, focusing on "Racing the Beam" by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.
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Safiya Umoja Noble, Ph.D. Student
Information in Society Fellow
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
snoble@illinois.edu
217/819-7648

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