Category: Privacy & Identity
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Welcome to SurvDH!
Welcome to SurvDH! SurvDH is a community of scholars dedicated to exploring the relationship between surveillance and the humanities, using an anti-colonial framework to analyze the ethics surrounding physical and digital surveillance methods, such as the use of algorithms, biometrics, social media, search engines, smart devices, and DNA. We examine the ways in which communities […]
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“Louis Armstrong and the Cold War: The Real Ambassador” by Damele Elliott Collier
NOTE: I am posting this on behalf of Damele Elliott Collier per her email request. All content of this post beyond this disclaimer is the intellectual property of Damele Elliott Collier and thus, not my own. ———————————————————————————— ABSTRACT Using the platform of Prezi, I have compiled a series of videos that portray the time that Louis “Satchmo” […]
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Black List: New York
Please find below the link to a Google Maps-hosted map, entitled Black List: New York. Black List: New York is an attempt to make present the past Cold War-era FBI surveillance of three black radical women: Claudia Jones, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Childress. Alongside this map I have included a B-side essay of sorts that […]
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Can We Do Better Than a 10 Year Gap in Knowledge (re: digital privacy, ethics, etc)?
I have been chewing on a topic and I could use others’ help. I, like many others, am frustrated by the enormous time gap between scholarly understanding of the privacy issues in digital media technology here in the U.S. and public and political awareness. This is an area of research and teaching for me, so I’ve […]
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It Is a Busy Time for Tech & Ethics
Recently we have seen a lot of bad news about digital technologies, social media platforms, and data breeches. A part of me hesitates to call it ‘news’ since most of what’s now part of public/popular knowledge has been known to those who work on social technology and information technology research for some time (as in a […]
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SSRC Works with Facebook To Make Data Available for Ethically Responsible Research
Dr. Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and a member of HASTAC’s Council of Advisors, today announced a crucial new initiative to study, with responsible and ethical practices, social media data. Congratulations and gratitude to SSRC for taking this crucially important step. Speaking personally: I’m less excited about researchers studying the […]
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Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment
***This blog post contains conversation of topics including sexual assault and invisible illnesses. Please engage in self-care when reading or holding discussions about this post. *** Every spring at Texas State University, the Communication Studies Department takes a week to celebrate our discipline and its range of reach by bringing in guest speakers and putting […]
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Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment
***This blog post contains conversation of topics including sexual assault and invisible illnesses. Please engage in self-care when reading or holding discussions about this post. *** Logan Carpenter (BA, Arizona State University, 2015) is a graduate student in the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University. Correspondence: lac243@txstate.edu. HASTAC: https://www.hastac.org/u/logancarpenter Lauren Lee (BA, Texas […]
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Twenty Things Higher Ed Can Learn from the Parkland High School Kids #MarchforOurLives #REV
What Higher Ed Can Learn from High School Activists #MarchforOurLives #REV I’m thinking about yesterday’s #MarchforOurLives protest in DC and all over America, how it was organized by high school students who had endured the most unimaginable violence, and how they turned something horrific into something productive, violence against them into an action […]
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Privacy, Security, and Your “Data Shadow”
Whether you call it our “data shadow,” “data selfie,” “data shed” or something else entirely, most, if not all, of us have left traces of our life, our bodies, and our activities online. At the same time, data breaches, third party data brokers, and predatory advertisers have all been in the news in the last year […]