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Aesthetics of Otherness: Representation of #migrantcaravan and #caravanamigrante on Instagram
(Sage, 2022-01)This article examines the representation of the migrant caravan on Instagram showing how an aesthetics of otherness has prevailed in this representation. Aesthetics of otherness is the result of the interaction between ... -
Code Ethnography and the Materiality of Power in Internet Governance
(Springer, 2022-09)The purpose of this article is to discuss an ethnography of code, specifically code ethnography, a method for examining code as a socio-technical actor, considering its social, political, and economic dynamics in the context ... -
Code Switch: Rethinking Computer Expertise as Empowerment
(Virginia Tech, 2016-05-06)Claims that technical mastery of computing and new media will provide a route to economic success for oppressed groups have become ubiquitous in American public discourse. From commercial enterprises like Codecademy, to ... -
Collaborative Workshops for Community Meaning-Making and Data Analyses: How Focus Groups Strengthen Data by Enhancing Understanding and Promoting Use
(MDPI, 2019-09-11)Community-based participatory research is a growing approach, but often includes higher levels of community engagement in the research design and data collection stages than in the data interpretation stage. Involving study ... -
Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)The article explores the problem of epistemological ignorance. Drawing on the literature of feminist epistemology, in particular the epistemologies of ignorance, it theorizes white ignorance and male ignorance and how it ... -
Cost-Effectiveness of Risk-Stratified Colorectal Cancer Screening Based on Polygenic Risk: Current Status and Future Potential
(2020-02)Background: Although uniform colonoscopy screening reduces colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality, risk-based screening may be more efficient. We investigated whether CRC screening based on polygenic risk is a cost-effective ... -
Cradle of a revolution? The industrial transformation of Louisiana's lower Mississippi river
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006-01)This article provides an overview of the petrochemical industry's transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans from the early 1900s to the present. First there is a broad discussion ... -
Custody of the corpse: controlling alkaline hydrolysis in US death care markets
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Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities
(OpenEdition, 2022)As humans, we are expected to interact as fully functional 3D manipulators who can observe, handle,and act in three spatial dimensions. This is how users are considered in the design of many products and spaces. Ableism ... -
Does America Need More Innovators?
(MIT Press, 2019-04)Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, ... -
Emotions and Narrative Selves
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Engineers of Change
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Epistemic Burdens and the Value of Ignorance
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Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review
(2020-11)Safe and secure water is a cornerstone of modern life in the global North. This article critically examines a set of prevalent myths about household water in high-income countries, with a focus on Canada and the United ... -
From community networks to shared networks: the paths of Latin-Centric Indigenous networks to a pluriversal internet
(Routledge, 2022-07)This article examines, with ethnographic lenses, the emergence of shared networks in the Tseltal and Zapoteco communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico). 'Shared networks' are first-mile signal-sharing practices that ... -
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South
(Wiley, 2021-12-14)We analyze public points of interconnection of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) in the global North versus the global South to determine the degree to which their location preferences differ, if at all. We find ... -
How To Get A Story Wrong: Technoableism, Simulation, and Cyborg Resistance
(2022-03)For this paper, I will first share with you what we take to be the wrong stories out there about disability - narrative arcs we’ve inherited from tropes through various media as well as highlight the dangers of disability ... -
Ideology and the Clamshell Identity - Organizational Dilemmas in the Antinuclear Power Movement
(University of California Press, 1986-06)This ethnographic study examines the role of ideology in the development of organizational dilemmas in the Clamshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear protest group active in New England during the late 1970s. In 1977, the Alliance ...
