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Freedom v. The Man: Security, Torture, and "Freedom" in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother
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Innovation on the Danube and Loyalty in the Habsburg Empire
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Human Control and Autonomy in Cybernetic Systems
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Art Is Not Enough! The Artist's Body as Protest
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: A Study of Theatrical Determinism
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Looking at connections between innovation and sport: How sporting cultures identify and manage new technologies
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2014-04)The contemporary public perception of sport as heavily regulated by sets of established rules, thanks in part to popular media coverage of binding expedited decisions handed down within a 24 hour timeframe by the Court of ... -
To My Beloved, BB4N: The history of “woman’s writing”, or the epistolary novel
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2014-04)A series of memorandums on the epistolary novel as established in the 1700s and its development in the modern age with the inclusion of electronic communications. Grown from a tradition of males imitating females, epistolary ... -
The New Porn Platform: Standards Gaps in ‘Revenge Porn’ Policy and Protection
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Life in the New Media landscape: Ritual Communication and Distributed Cognition on Reddit
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2015-03)The New Media landscape is diverse and complex. More importantly, as noted by Lev Manovich, it is fundamentally new. This paper will explore one instance of New Media, the social news site reddit, in terms of several ... -
Street Art Dialogue
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2015-03)This paper reviews street art dialogism as understood through parallel architecture, remediation, recursion, and combinatoriality of signs through art’s social setting. It exposes the contrast and comparison of the nodes ... -
Otto’s Notebook vs the Memex: Comparing the smartphone and the PC as two paradigms of cognitive enhancement
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2015-03)The history of computing has been characterized by an effort to replicate and augment human intelligence. Today’s personal computers are still substantially similar in their overall goals to the “memex,” a hypothetical ... -
Subversion and Reification of Cultural Identity in Global Fandoms
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)As nations continue to open up to the global market and invite the commercialization and appropriation of native texts, a renegotiation process regarding the power dynamics of cultural influence for both native producers ... -
Robotic Emulation
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)Science fiction has presented us with a picture of robots that have the potential to mimic humans to the point of being indistinguishable from them. This paper is about some of the essential ways the two are different. The ... -
Online Dating: Does Your Smartphone Affect Your Love Life?
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)How and why people use different media on the Internet has been a primary interest in computer mediated communication since the inception of the Internet. Now that more and more relationships are being initiated and ... -
Robotics After Recess: A Call for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction Focus in Education
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)The trend toward robotics and automation are not only becoming ubiquitous across many sectors, but they are also advancing at more significant rates than ever before. With robots becoming more involved in the workplace and ... -
Why Do Chinese Young People Call Themselves "Losers"? Diaosi: A Counter-Hegemony Identity
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)In recent years, Chinese young people tend to use a popular Internet word diaosi to mock themselves as “underprivileged losers” who fail in their careers and romantic relationships. This paper tries to examine this ... -
The Internet as a Hegemonic Locus of Power: On the Case of Facebook
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)Today’s hegemonic combatants for power are nation states just as much as blue chip companies, religious leaders, Hollywood directors, and athletes, striving to execute control over their respectable loci of power and ... -
Building Nature in Detroit: Ruin Aesthetics, Historical gaps, and the Urban Agricultural Imagination
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)Urban Agriculture is increasingly forwarded as a tool for social and ecological renewal in the post-industrial city. However, much of the enthusiasm (and increasingly, scholarly analysis) of this phenomenon focuses on its ... -
“What Makes for a Grievable Life?” The “Question of the Human” in Contemporary American War Films
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)Drawing on Judith Butler’s work in Precarious Life (2004) and Frames of War (2009), this paper discusses the way that contemporary American war films, such as Hurt Locker (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and American ... -
Digitizing Refugees: The Effect of Technology on Forced Displacement
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)This paper examines broadly the role of technology in the lives of refugees and its influence on the trajectory of forced displacement today, a topic that has been covered extensively by the media but has not been as ...
