Month: March 2020

hello! we have relocated to the more officially condoned and supported online learning extravaganza space: canvas. see you there!

• safiya noble, “google search: hypervisibility as a way of rendering black girls and women invisible“
  • if interested, here’s the intro to her book algorithms of oppression
  • this is a pretty good podcast interview with her, if you don’t want to read (but it’s on the long side)
• ruha benjamin, engineered inequality, from race after technology

xtra special broken spring edition:

tomorrow will be the last day we’ll be able to share the same physical space together for a while, at the very least. i hope we can make use of conditions that, up until recently, we took for granted, but now seem like a special privilege. while there are “official readings” that you are more than welcome to read (i know i will!), i would like to start our class by discussing the main/most interesting/compelling/important ideas each of us has learned during the semester so far. you are free to give this thought beforehand, but there’s no need to. but come prepared to first write and then talk about it with the rest of us.

• #gamergate! if you don’t know what it is, here’s a quick overview from the time (and here is a more in-depth, feminist/sociological take on it) [[[YOU DON”T NEED TO READ THESE, BUT IF YOU”RE INTERESTED IN THE CASE, THEY ARE HERE]]]]
• kishonna gray, bertan buyukozturk, and zachary hill,
  “blurring the boundaries: using gamergate to examine “real” and symbolic violence against women in contemporary gaming culture” (short!)
• andrea braithwaite, “it’s about ethics in games journalism? gamergaters and geek masculinity” (also short!)
• katherine cross (she wrote the feminist overview above), “toward a formal sociology of online harassment”

• chalfen, “‘it’s only a picture’: sexting, ‘smutty’ snapshots, and felony charges” (it may be useful to see the issue in terms of “moral panics“)
• waling and pym, ‘‘C’mon, No One Wants a Dick Pic’: exploring the cultural framings of the ‘Dick Pic’ in contemporary online publics“
• hearn and hall, “this is my cheating ex-: gender and sexuality in revenge porn” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363460718779965.
  • stuff underneath this is all excess, to be ignored completely.
  • [[hearn and hall have a short policy-oriented paper on the topic, you can find here, if interested]]
  • [[if you’re interested in how this affects women differently than men, try this: “‘If a girl’s photo gets sent around, that’s a way bigger deal than if a guy’s photo gets sent around’: gender, sexting, and the teenage years“

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