Annual Common Seminar Colloquium: CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE CRITIC

April 28, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm

The Annual Cultural Studies Common Seminar Colloquium

Hosted by: Olga Kuchinskaya, Associate Professor of Communication

APRIL 28, 6:00PM-8:30PM

Activism

  • Mohammad Sasono, “Jakartabeat Intervention: Music Media and Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia.”
  • Ying-Tung Chou, “Social Media and Activism: Intersectionality of Student Development and Collective Identity Formation in #BlackLivesMatter.”
  • Don Joseph, “Moroccan Digital Queer Activism after the Arab Spring.”

Comment: The online audience.

 Bodies & Apparatuses

  • Mehul Bhushan, “Is Google Search an Apparatus?: A Study of Google's Page Ranking System.” 
  • Caitlin Dahl, “Newsworthy Bodies: Queer Tales of the Mercure Galant.”
  • Maria Ryabova, “Technological Kinship: Sex Robots and Humans.”
  • Nelson Castañeda Rojas, “Digitalizing Flesh and Racialized Data: Myanmar, Twitter, Facebook, and the U.S. Capitol.”

Comment: The online audience.