April 2013
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Dr. Nancy Rubin is strongly committed to educational excellence and creating a positive learning experience in the online environment. Nancy is the Director of Online Learning and Social Media for Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education. She has presented at many conferences, has been published in educational journals, and is the Associate Managing Editor for the Journal of Literacy...
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Dennis Tenen is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media Studies at Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature. He writes and teaches in the field of computational culture studies both as in the critical study of computational culture and in the sense of applying computational approaches to the study of culture. You can find him at [d3nten.com].
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March 2013
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Rachael Rakes is a critic and curator based in NYC. She edits the film section for the Brooklyn Rail, is a partner in the collaborative arts space Heliopolis, and Assistant Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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“Good sense of humor, fingers on many pulses, consistent updating, and a broad sense of what constitutes art and...
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Seb Chan is Director of Digital & Emerging Media at Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC where he is charged with reinventing the digital experience of the museum as it rebuilds its physical site on Museum Mile. He has had a long career as a change agent, helping cultural institutions make the most of a world being reshaped by technology, ‘the network’, and...
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Timothy R. Tangherlini teaches folklore, literature and cultural studies at UCLA. His current work focuses on computation and the humanities. In particular, he has focused on using GIS to discover patterns in folklorecollections, and network analysis techniques to address problems of classification. Links to this work can be found athttp://tango.bol.ucla.edu/#online
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Nick Zangwill teaches philosophy in Durham University, and has written about aesthetics and various other topics in Philosophy.
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“Arts and Letters Daily is full of stimulating material, intellectual, political, cultural, scientific, philosophical. The choices unusually show independent-mindedness and it is always interesting and I learn a...
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Mark A. Matienzo (http://matienzo.org) is Technical Architect for ArchivesSpace (http://www.archivesspace.org/) and a Digital Archivist in Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale University Library. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at the iSchool at Drexel University. His research and professional interests focus on the intersection between digital preservation, forensics, media...
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The focus of jimi adams’s research is on how network configurations serve to promote or constrain the spread of things like diseases and ideas through a population. Increasingly, this work focuses on how interdisciplinary scientific fields are arranged and evolve through time. Previously, this has involved examining patterns that contribute to HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention in the US...
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Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years’ operation.
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“Self-serving, but I like to wake up to see what’s newly been digitized by friend and...
February 2013
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Alex Gil is Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Columbia University for the Humanities and History division where he works with faculty, student and librarians on digital projects and literacy. He is a strong advocate of public humanities and global networks. His research revolves around the secret conversations between machines and texts, publishing networks in the 20th century and pirate...
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Geert Lovink is a media theorist, net critic and activist, studied political science on the University of Amsterdam (MA) and holds a PhD at University of Melbourne. In 2003 he was a postdoc fellow at University of Queensland in Brisbane. 2004 he was appointed research professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (interactive media) and associate professor (new media) at the University of...
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Adeline Koh is a visiting faculty fellow under the Duke University Humanities Writ Large Program. She is also an assistant professor of literature at Richard Stockton College. Her work spans the intersections between postcolonial studies and the digital humanities, 19th/20th Century British and Anglophone Literature and Southeast Asian and African studies, and games in higher education. Koh...
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Laurie Chancey is an Instructor of Sociology at Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, CT, and a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Passionate about teaching and technology, Laurie maintains a web presence, “DJ Academe,” to collect and organize multimedia for pedagogical...
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Julia Fryett is a curator and producer with an expertise in contemporary art, film and digital media. She previously worked in a curatorial and sales capacity at the Mugrabi Collection, then went on to founded AKTIONSART in 2009. Her speciality is designing multi-platform projects that bridge physical and virtual space. Check out some of her work here.
Julia graduated from Duke University with...
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Chad M. Gesser is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Owensboro Community and Technical College. He teaches first and second year courses, using a lot of technology in the classroom and with students. He also engages in a wide array of endeavors; currently dabbling with sound design/DJing. You can find out more about Chad at http://sites.google.com/site/chadgesser/, and check some of his...
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Amanda considers herself a member of the community of practice known as the “digital humanities,” which means that she thinks about how the study of literature, history, and philosophy has been and is being and might be changed by computers and the Internet — but she doesn’t limit herself to thinking; she gets her hands dirty, thus causing some of the very change she thinks about, in an...
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Lisa Wade is a cultural critic and professor at Occidental College. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in human sexuality from New York University. Lisa has published extensively on U.S. discourse about female genital cutting, hook up culture on college campuses, and the social significance of the body. She is also the founder and editor of the...
January 2013
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James Neal is a recent Master of Library Science graduate of the University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), College of Information Studies.
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“Feedly - I still believe in the value of RSS feeds. With the demise of sharing and following on Google Reader, I rely on the magazine format of Feedly to guide me through the 1000+ RSS feeds I subscribe...
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Nalini P. Kotamraju is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen with affiliations to the Digital Media and Communication Research Group and the Interaction Design Research Group. Her main research interests are: 1) identity and technology use; 2) social aspects of digital design; and 3) research methods. Her publications address new media skills in the web design industry, gender...
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Professor Barry Wellman studies networks: community, communication, computer, and social. His research examines virtual community, the virtual workplace, social support, community, kinship, friendship, and social network theory and methods. Based at the University of Toronto, he directs NetLab, is the S.D. Clark Professor at the Department of Sociology, is a member of the Cities Centre, and the...
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Aaron Swartz is a writer, programmer, and activist. He co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification and co-founded Reddit.com. He’s a contributing editor to _The Baffler_ and founder of Demand Progress, an activism group with over a million members.
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http://daringfireball.net “Every word on this website is there for a reason.”
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Dr Charlotte Frost is an academic focusing on art’s relationship with technology. Producing reviews and discussion on digital/new media art for more than ten years, she has worked online and off with a variety of key organisations including the Guardian, Arts Council England, Furtherfield, where she is Associate Context Editor, Rhizome and a-n, where she wrote the regular column: Digital...
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Alondra Nelson teaches sociology and gender studies at Columbia University. An interdisciplinary social scientist, she writes about the intersections of science, technology, medicine, and inequality. She is author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (Minnesota, 2011). She is also an editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA,...
December 2012
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Paolo Parigi is a sociologist interested in the emergence of cooperation and in the development of formal and informal rules that make cooperation possible. His interest in this broad area has resulted in work that spans the fields of organizational theory, political sociology and historical sociology. He believes that the originality of his work rests in the use of sophisticated methods to...
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Kristoffer Gansing is the artistic director of transmediale, festival for art and digital culture, Berlin. For the past 15 years he’s been working as a cultural producer, artist and media researcher at the intersection of film, net culture and urbanism. He is co-founder of The Art of the Overhead (2005) and 2007-2010 was an editorial board member of artist-run channel tv-tv in Copenhagen....
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Joanna Zylinska is a cultural theorist writing on new technologies and new media, ethics and art. She is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of four books — most recently Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (with Sarah Kember; MIT Press, 2012) and Bioethics in the Age of New Media (MIT Press, 2009) — she has just...
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Sarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her most recent book is Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (MIT Press, co-authored with Joanna Zylinska). She co-edits the journals of photographies and Feminist Theory and has written a novel (The Optical Effects of Lightning, Wild Wolf Publishing), a short story (‘The...
November 2012
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Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her next book ‘Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace’, out September 2013 with Bloomsbury Academic, explores the mysterious synergies between our love of nature and our passion for the internet. www.technobiophilia.com
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Geoff Cox is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, and Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University (DK). He is also an occasional artist, Adjunct faculty Transart Institute (DE/US), Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK), and part of the self-institution Museum of Ordure. His research interests lie in the areas of contemporary art and...
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Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College. He is currently finishing his first book, A Floating Chinaman, about a circle of China-watching writers and artists during the 1930s and 40s whose works were animated by both a shared interest in transpacific politics as well as strange, often petty interpersonal rivalries. He was on the editorial board of A New Literary History of...
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Dr. Oliver S. Wang holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. His dissertation was a social history of the Filipino American mobile DJ community in the Bay Area and he is currently adapting that work into a monograph for Duke University Press. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach, teaching courses in popular culture, social issues...
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Kieran Healy teaches sociology at Duke University. His research is mostly about exchange in human blood and organs, cultural goods, software, and ideas. He is interested in the moral order of market society, the effect of quantification on social classification, and the link between those two things—particularly in the cases of quantifying excellence in academia and measuring creditworthiness...
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Marc Smith is a sociologist specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. Smith leads the Connected Action consulting group and lives and works in Silicon Valley, California. Smith co-foundedthe Social Media Research Foundation (http://www.smrfoundation.org/), a non-profit devoted to open tools, data, and scholarship related to social media...
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Born and educated in India (NID), with an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, Anab founded Superflux in 2009. She has a proven track record in design, strategy and foresight for businesses, think-tanks and research organisations.
Honoured as a TED Fellow, she is the receipient of several awards, including the Award of Excellence ICSID, Innovation Award, Chicago...
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Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based Famous New Media Artist whose work explores custom software in a performative context. His work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies.” (Marisa Olson, Rhizome) Recent projects include performances for Transmediale, the Stedelijk Museum, FACT, the Tate Liverpool and the New Museum in New York. For more...
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Mark Deuze has a BA in Journalism from the Fontys School for Journalism in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He received an MPhil in History and Communication Studies from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD in the Social Sciences is from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mark spent most of 2003 in Los Angeles as a Fulbright scholar at the Annenberg School of...
October 2012
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Jessie Daniels, PhD is a Mellon Fellow (2012-2013) at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Urban Public Health and Sociology. She is the author of Cyber Racism (2009) and White Lies (1997), as well as dozens of peer-reviewed articles in journals such as New Media & Society, Gender & Society, American Journal of Public Health, and Women’s Studies...
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Trevor Owens is a Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress and a doctoral candidate studying software systems as artifacts and agents in online communities. He teaches and writes about digital history, video games, online communities, and the born digital history of science.
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Antonio A. Casilli is an Italian-born French social scientist investigating the cultural and political dimensions of bodies, technologies and networks. He’s an associate professor of Digital Humanities at Telecom ParisTech University, and a researcher at the Edgar Morin Center, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris.
Among his authored books, The Libertine Factory. De Sade...
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Dan Colman is the Director of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program and the founder/editor of Open Culture, a web site dedicated to highlighting cultural and educational resources available on the web. The common goal of the two positions? To spread knowledge far and wide.
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“Before the day gets going, I want to know what’s happening in the...
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Jennifer C. Lena is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has recently published Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music (Princeton, 2012), a history of 20th century popular music in the United States. Jenn’s published several shorter pieces about rap music, American country music, music videos, the CIA’s use of music,...
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Göran Bolin is professor of Media & Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Bolin’s current research interests are focussed on cultural production and consumption in contemporary culture industries, and how relationships between these are altered by digitization and marketization processes. His most recent work is summarized in Value and the Media: Cultural...
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Kari Kraus is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching interests focus on digital humanities, game studies and transmedia fiction, digital preservation, and long-term thinking.
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“Right now I’m refreshing the home page of my favorite...
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Dr Tiffany Jenkins in an independent sociologist and cultural commentator. She is the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority and is writing Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of Antiquity Ended Up in Museums – and why they should stay here. She writes and broadcasts for the media, including a frequent column in the Scotsman newspaper. You...
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Claudio E. Benzecry is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology at New York University in 2007, and has published research on digital media and cultural production, intellectual sociability and literary value, and art worlds and cultural consumption in both Argentina and the United States. His book, The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an...
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Joseph I. Henrikson is the Founder and Director of Anonymous Gallery. Joseph is responsible for establishing the gallery in September of 2008, with the goal of providing a platform for contemporary art, pubic art, and community involvement. Anonymous Gallery opened a second location in Mexico City last November, 2011. He works with business partners Andrew Lockhart in NYC and Laura Resendiz in...
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Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, London. He is the author of many books on leisure and popular culture including Capitalism and Leisure Theory, Ways of Escape: Modern Transformations of Leisure and Travel, Leisure and Culture and Celebrity.
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“For all for news/opinion…”
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September 2012
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Rahel Aima is a writer currently based in Dubai and co-editor at The State. Rahel has been previously involved with Triple Canopy, Guernica,Verso, Brownbook, and the Left Forum.
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“Bit unnerving to realise just how much of my day I spend at various Google sites. Gmail is always the first tab I open, followed by Google Analytics. Google...
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Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the MA Design and Environment at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research investigates the intersection of environments, materialities and communication technologies through theoretical and practice-based work. Projects within this area include a recently published book, Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (University of...
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Professor Andy Miah (@andymiah) is Director of the Creative Futures Institute and Chair of Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the Faculty of Business & Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland. He is Global Director for the Centre for Policy and Emerging Technologies, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Fellow of FACT, Liverpool.
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