Published on June 22nd, 2020Written by Marisa Elena Duarte, MLIS, PhD, & Morgan Vigil-Hayes, PhD What is network sovereignty in Indian Country? The concept of network sovereignty is particularly pertinent in Indian Country, that is, through the 600+ self-governing and sovereign Native Nations within US boundaries. Through regulating and commanding […]
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Published on June 9th, 2020Written by Amelia Acker For the past two years, I’ve been researching platforms’ digital preservation strategies and studying how platforms like Facebook, iOS, and Android preserve information and provide access to users’ data. As part of this ongoing research, I have been following emerging ways that […]
Published on June 4th, 2020Written by Sophie Toupin During the South African liberation struggle, a group of scientists and techies formed a technical committee to assist the African National Congress (ANC) in its quest to fight against the apartheid regime in power since 1948. The technical committee, officially formed in the […]
Published on June 2nd, 2020Graduate research assistant Diego Cerna Aragon published a post in DATACTIVE‘s blog “COVID-19 from the margins” on how the Peruvian state is using social welfare databases to distribute financial support during the coronavirus crisis. Here is the teaser of the post: The Peruvian tragedies are manifold. […]
Published on May 20th, 2020Wednesday, May 20, 2-3:30 p.m. RSVP to get Zoom link. This session, conducted via Zoom, is the first in a series of Digital Humanities workshops to be facilitated by the University of Montana’s Humanities Institute. To launch the series, Lisa Parks, MIT Professor of Comparative Media […]
Published on May 15th, 2020The GMTaC Lab celebrates graduate student research assistants, Iago Bojczuk and Han Su, who completed their master’s degrees in Comparative Media Studies in 2020. Bojczuk’s thesis is entitled Media Cartographies of Broadband Access in Brazil: The Case of the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC-1) and Rural Schools and Su’s thesis […]
Published on May 15th, 2020GMTaC lab RA Iago and Han successfully defensed their theses. Here are the abstracts. Media Cartographies of Broadband Access in Brazil: The Case of the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC-1) and Rural Schools by Iago Bojczuk Abstract The launch of the Geostationary Defense and […]
Published on May 12th, 2020Professor Lisa Parks cited in Time magazine article about the history of video chat technology.
Published on May 7th, 2020A blog post by Kelly Wagman These are strange times indeed: however, as coronavirus news started to ramp up, I was struck by a familiar set of feelings. A few years ago, I went through a period of medical trauma. I won’t go into detail, but […]