I’m not exactly sure when in the last few months I first noticed Google’s subway advertising campaign, but whenever it was, I was immediately confused. The ads relate to Google’s Good to Know initiative and focus on privacy, security and netiquette. More than anything, the ads reminded me of seemingly well-intentioned and yet always-already …
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Despite the (not undeserved) hype about the role of social media in various occupy movement, I first heard about Occupy Wall Street from a traditional face-to-face encounter with my roommate. Bryce gave me the basics (Adbusters-instigated, Twitter-facilitated protest in Zoccotti Square) and suggested we check it out. If I'm honest, my first encounter with the …
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Confession: I love cyborgs. I first read Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" as an undergraduate (in Anna Joy Springer's experimental writing class, a course that has had lingering impacts on me, my writing and my reading ever since) and although I didn't understand all that much of what Haraway was saying, I loved it. It was …
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