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

April 21, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm

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.