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Now! Visual Culture conference
Event
By Zulkarnain on Apr 5th, 2012
  1. Arts & Humanities
  2. Games & Gaming
  3. Digital Humanities
  4. Visualization
  5. Race & Ethnicity
  1. diasporas
  2. digital publishing
  3. labor
  4. Occupy Movements
  5. visual culture

If you guys are around NYC on May 31-June 2, I would encourage you to come to this conference:
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Social Media’s Dirty Work: Contextualizing the Facebook Screening Controversy
Blog entry
By Roberts on Feb 26th, 2012
  1. Advocacy
  2. Gender & Sexuality
  3. Civic Engagement
  4. HASTAC Scholars
  5. Internet & Web 2.0
  6. Digital Divide & Access
  7. International & Global
  8. Social Networks & Social Media
  9. Race & Ethnicity
  10. Socioeconomic Status & Class
  11. Work
  12. Community & Policy
  13. Culture
  1. Adrian Chen
  2. amazon
  3. Antoine Dodson
  4. Apple
  5. Bed Intruder
  6. Behind the Screen
  7. Brett Caraway
  8. content screeners
  9. contract
  10. digital labor
  11. digital piecework
  12. dirty work
  13. dissertation
  14. e-waste
  15. exploitation
  16. Facebook
  17. Foxconn
  18. Gawker
  19. global south
  20. globalization
  21. labor
  22. Mechanical Turk
  23. oDesk
  24. outsourcing
  25. Raj Jayadev
  26. safiya noble
  27. Shenzhen
  28. silicon valley
  29. social media
  30. Tiziana Terranova
  31. users
  32. video content moderation
  33. viral video
  34. Wendy Chun
  35. workers
  36. Youtube

In the past few days my inbox has seen an influx in forwards from friends and colleagues, all sharing links with me covering the recent revelation...
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Rice University Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellowships on Human Trafficking
Opportunity
By Seglie on Nov 7th, 2011
  1. Arts & Design
  2. Arts & Humanities
  3. Gender & Sexuality
  4. Geography & Location
  5. HASTAC Scholars
  6. Careers, Publishing & Tenure
  7. History
  8. Music & Sound
  9. Digital Humanities
  10. International & Global
  11. Government & Politics
  12. Race & Ethnicity
  13. Research & Methodologies
  14. Culture
  15. HASTAC
  1. arts
  2. fellowship
  3. funding
  4. global
  5. Houston
  6. human rights
  7. humanities
  8. interdisciplinarity
  9. labor
  10. race
  11. slavery
  12. social science
  13. Trafficking

Rice University is accepting applications for year-long faculty fellowships to participate in the inaugural Rice Seminar “Human Trafficking – Past...
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Is labor embracing digital media? Recent blog entries say yes
Blog entry
By Moore on Sep 10th, 2011
  1. Civic Engagement
  2. Collaboration
  3. Digital Divide & Access
  4. Government & Politics
  5. Institutions & Organizations
  6. Non-profits
  1. labor
  2. socioeconomic clas
  3. university of oregon

Hey Folks,

Tonight I came across a couple of blogs that discussed the labor movement's use of social media and digital technology.  ...
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CFP Digital Diasporas
Opportunity
By Barnett on Mar 21st, 2011
  1. International & Global
  2. Online Identity
  3. Community & Policy
  1. capital
  2. cfp
  3. digital diasporas
  4. global
  5. Identity
  6. international
  7. labor
  8. social movements

*CFP: Digital Diasporas and Transnational Social Movements: Capital, Labor,
Mobility and Identity*

Editor – Radhika Gajjala

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Everything New Is Old Again: Two Critiques of Cyber-Optimism
Blog entry
By Canavan on Mar 10th, 2011
  1. Academia
  1. advertising
  2. capitalism
  3. Clay Shirky
  4. copyright
  5. criticism
  6. digital enclosure
  7. Facebook
  8. flexible accumulation
  9. Google
  10. internet
  11. John Bellamy Foster
  12. labor
  13. Marx
  14. net neutrality
  15. new media
  16. politics
  17. Robert W. McChesney
  18. theory
  19. twitter
  20. Utopia
  21. wikipedia

Two pieces separately crossed my screen today that each offer provocative challenges to the abiding sense of optimism, even triumphalism, that...
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Bodies and Technologies in Resistance: The Wisconsin Union Protests, from the Ground
Blog entry
By Roberts on Mar 3rd, 2011
  1. Gender & Sexuality
  2. Digital Media & Learning
  3. Government & Politics
  4. Journalism & Media
  5. Social Networks & Social Media
  6. Sciences & Neurosciences
  7. Community & Policy
  1. 2011
  2. austerity
  3. bodies
  4. budget repair bill
  5. capitol
  6. citizen journalism
  7. collective action
  8. democracy now
  9. digital media
  10. disease
  11. documentary
  12. Facebook
  13. fox news
  14. grassroots movements
  15. health
  16. illness
  17. labor
  18. madison
  19. mass media
  20. neoliberalism
  21. organic media
  22. personal archives
  23. personal curation
  24. political action
  25. political resistance
  26. queerness
  27. scott walker
  28. sexuality
  29. social media
  30. social movements
  31. twitter
  32. twitter revolutions
  33. union protests
  34. wellness
  35. wiunion

Since February 12th, I have been involved in participating in and documenting the protests against Wisconsin Governor...
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Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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By Klarr on Mar 1st, 2011
  1. Information Science & Archiving
  2. Open Source, Open Access & Open Web
  3. Reading & Writing
  4. Community & Policy
  1. authorship
  2. commons
  3. digital preservation
  4. digital university
  5. gift economy
  6. labor
  7. obsolescence
  8. open access

Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick  

1) The Book...
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CFP: Digital/Media, Race, Affect and Labor
Opportunity
By Barnett on Oct 4th, 2010
  1. Digital Media & Learning
  2. Government & Politics
  3. Race & Ethnicity
  4. Community & Policy
  1. affect
  2. cfp
  3. conference
  4. digital media
  5. ethnicity
  6. labor
  7. politics
  8. race

*Digital/Media, Race, Affect and Labor*

*Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA*

*Dates of the...
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Digital Labor, Cold-War Roots
Blog entry
By Roberts on Feb 9th, 2010
  1. Games & Gaming
  2. History
  3. Community & Policy
  1. cold war
  2. defense technology
  3. gaming
  4. history
  5. labor
  6. military

Doing some reading over the past week, I was prompted to think about, then comment on, a chapter by Friedrich Kittler on Cold War computing...
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