Published on September 12th, 2019Written by Aditi Mehta, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Toronto I am broadly interested in how local community-run wifi networks can affect the culture of a neighborhood, and help build social ties and social cohesion, particularly among diverse residents who do not […]
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Published on September 3rd, 2019Written by Jenna Burrell, Associate Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. In Shoshanna Zuboff’s 1988 classic, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, she documents the impact of computerization in industrial workplaces on the bodies of workers. Workers, she found, had an […]
Published on August 21st, 2019Written by Carlos Jimenez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism at the University of Denver. Day laborers stand on street corners, at hardware stores, or other hidden areas in cities across the world and they are the basis of what scholars now call […]
Published on August 14th, 2019Animal Network Sovereignty Adam Fish Lately, when I have the pleasure of walking in the stacks of a regal, well-stocked, old library, and am in a satirical mood, I imagine I am an alien roaming the halls of some temple of speciesism. I roll my eyes […]
Published on August 1st, 2019Written by Michele Ferris-Dobles, Ph.D. Student at the Communication Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Central American father and son looking at their mobile phone during one of the Central American migrant caravans to the U.S in 2018 Photos by Edgar Garrido for Reuters […]
Published on July 11th, 2019Written by Alan Zhang, GMTaC Lab Research Affiliate & Graduate Student, MIT Sloan School of Management The Blackfeet nation counts among the ten largest Native American tribes in the United States. According to oral tradition, Blackfeet warriors have roamed the Great Plains for more than 10,000 […]