The Annual Cultural Studies Common Seminar Colloquium
Hosted by: Olga Kuchinskaya, Associate Professor of Communication
Zoom - Register to attend
APRIL 21, 6:00PM-8:30PM
Communities
- Eleanor Soekorv, “Recycling Piłsudski's Intermarium Project: Kremlin versus ‘The West.’”
- Kamiran Dadah, “A House is Not a Home: Property Cathexis and the Production of Space on Zillow.”
- Yue Gao, “How Online Library Systems and Online Book Search Engines Promote Misrepresentations in Children’s Picture Books of Chinese and Chinese Americans.”
- Abhishek Viswanathan, “Whose City? Whose Technologies? The Role of Universities and Activists in Building out the ‘Smart City’: A Case Study of Pittsburgh.”
Comment: The online audience.
Digital discourse
- Reed Van Schenck, “Watch Me Debate: Livestream Debate Culture and Mediated Argument.”
- Christine Choi, “YouTube and BitChute: Online Citizen Scientists Battling Scientific Knowledge and Mis/Disinformation.”
- Tara Beichner, “Vaccine Hesitancy & Facebook.”
Comment: The online audience.
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.