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On Modes of Digital Embodiment: Movement and the Digital
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2017)
Since the 1980s, there has been a growing fascination with the steady increase of the digital information that surrounds us and the interaction between virtual reality and physical space. Films from the 1980s and 1990s ...
Channels of Change in South Sudan: Youth Civil Society Organizations and Critical Empathy in Nation - Building
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2017)
Through a case study of the South Sudanese Upper Nile Youth Development Association
(UNYDA), the author illustrates how youth have the potential to assist communities in
dealing with past and current violence, restoring ...
Can Science Fiction Alter the Future?
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2017)
What are the ethical ramifications and uses of technology? How can we know the dangers
of using certain technologies when they do not exist or at least not at the moment? Science
fiction reveals the possibilities of what ...
The 'Nirbhaya' Movement: An Indian Feminist Revolution
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2017)
In December 2012, New Delhi witnessed a horrific crime – a female medical student was
violently gang-raped on a moving bus and then dumped onto the highway, injured and
unconscious. While she didn’t survive the attack, ...
A Critical Analysis of Art in the Post-Internet Era
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2017)
The ability of technology to transform art, artist, and art world is not a new concept. The
impact of digital technology and the Internet is yet another dynamic force. What is taking
place is a redefinition of authorship, ...
(Deaf)iant Architects: ASL Poetics and Concrete / Corporeal Spatiality in the Deaf Diaspora
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2017)
Bridging connections between avant-garde shape and pattern poetics, from Dadaism to
the contemporary L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E page poets, ASL poetry resists and stretches
hearing-based modalities of creative exchange and ...
Resolving the Incommensurability of Eugenics and the Quantified Self
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2017)
The “quantified self,” a cultural phenomenon which emerged just before the 2010s, embodies one critical underlying tenet: self-tracking for the purpose of self-improvement through the identification of behavioral and ...