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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Feminists, geeks, and geek feminists: Understanding gender and power in technological activism in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoBoth radio activism and gender advocacy within F/OSS illustrate how
technologies acquire political meanings within technical communities. In
examining these sites, we can observe how activists who are concerned with
expressing political beliefs do so through engagement with technologies. Geek
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Not Entirely Analog(ous): Low-Power FM Radio as Community, Relations, and Knowledge in Context in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoAt the turn of the millennium, scholars and pundits reflected on how communica- tion systems could shape events and societies, often while basking in the perceived glow of the then-novel Internet. Others pled for reasoned engagement with the interplay between communication infrastructures and the social life of knowledge, a much-needed corrective…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Subversive Humor in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI argue that an indirect and imaginative route through subversive humor offers a means to
raise consciousness about covert oppression and the mechanisms underlying it, reveal the errors
of those with power who complacently sustain systematic oppression, and even open those people
up to changing their minds. Subversive humor confronts serious…[Read more] -
Chris A. Kramer deposited Dave Chappelle’s Civic Rhetoric: Positive Propaganda in a Liberal Democracy in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSome of Dave Chappelle’s uses of storytelling about seemingly mundane events, like his experiences with his “white friend Chip” and the police, are examples of what W.E.B. Du Bois calls “Positive Propaganda.” This is in contrast to “Demagoguery,” the sort of propaganda described by Jason Stanley that obstructs empathic recognition of others, and u…[Read more]
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Jacek Ben Silberstein deposited In defence of science – non sole in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoAbstract: The freedom of research is a cornerstone of our civilisation; in many ways it can even be seen as a human right. However, freedom of research does not mean the liberty to cheat. Cheating in science – deliberate falsification of evidence to support a hypothesis – is not only academic misconduct; it is also a crime against society and the…[Read more]
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D. De Rentiis deposited “Chresiology”, short description (part 2) (version 2) in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoShort description (video lecture) of what you can do, when you “do chresiology”, part 2 (slides).
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Broadcasting Resistance in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoBook review of Low Power to the People
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoReview of Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest and Politics in FM Radio Activism in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Over the next decade, several hundred of these newly created low-wattage stations took to the airwaves. In Low Power to the People, Christina Dunbar-Hester describes the…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by technologically skilled women are drastically lower in hacking communities than in industry and academia. Hacking Diversity investigates…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Paradoxes of Participation in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis chapter examines how activist ideals manifest in the realm of practice, emphasizing the reality of technical expertise running afoul of participatory goals in the practice of radio activism. A major plank of the radio activists’ work was the promotion of technical participation to novices through various activities such as radio s…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Producing “Participation”? The Pleasures and Perils of Technical Engagement in Radio Activism in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoTwenty people spent a weekend gathered around two refrigerator-sized FM radio transmitters inside a large truck parked on a busy street. These large machines were unwieldy: over thirty years old, they were heavy to move, frustratingly dark to work in, and required high electric current to operate. They were not in working order; they were filthy…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Soldering Towards Media Democracy: Technical Practice as Symbolic Value in Radio Activism in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis article follows radio activists engaged in a combination of policy advocacy and broadening access to technology and skills through hands-on work. In practice, this largely played out as a systematic elevation of “technical” work and downplaying of policy/advocacy expertise, even though both were salient features of their work. The article arg…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited Carbon Vitalism: Life and the Body in Climate Denial in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels. Drawing on interconnections between CO2, plant life, and human breath, carbon vitalists argue that carbon dioxide is not pollution but the stuff of life itself and thus possesses ethical and e…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Playful Thought Experiments of Louis CK in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIt is trivially true that comedians make jokes and thus are not serious; they are “just playing.” But watching Louis CK, especially his performances in Chewed Up, Shameless, and Hilarious, it is evident that he has more in mind than simply getting his audience to frivolously guffaw. I will make the case that this is so given the content of som…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited A Wise Person Proportions their Beliefs With Humor in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWhat has proportion to do with humor or irony? And what do either of these have to do with being human? Jokes, laughter, and funniness connote excess, exaggeration, incongruity, dissonance, etc., the opposite of proportion–balance, symmetry, Aristotle’s golden mean. Yet, The Philosopher maintains, the wit has found the ideal moderate position b…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Is Laughing at Morally Oppressive Jokes Like Being Disgusted by Phony Dog Feces? An Analysis of Belief and Alief in the Context of Questionable Humor in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIn two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited “Freedom from Jobs” or learning to love to labor? Diversity advocacy and working imaginaries in Open Technology Projects in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis paper examines imaginaries of work and labor in “open technology” projects (especially open source software and hackerspaces), based on ethnographic research in North America. It zeroes in on “diversity initiatives” within open technology projects. These initiatives are important because they expose many of the assumptions and tension…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited How Socratic was Swift’s Irony? in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWas Swift correct that “reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired” (Letter to a Young Gentleman)? If so, what recourse is there to change attitudes especially among those who continue to fervently believe unjustified claims and act upon them in a way that affects other people? I will answer the…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited I Laugh Because it’s Absurd: Humor as Error Detection in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis chapter will focus on the overlap and benefits of a humorous and philosophical attitude toward the world and our place in it. The first part of this chapter’s title borrows from Kierkegaard and before him the Christian apologist Turtullian, who once quipped about the central contradictory tenets of Christianity, in putatively ironic f…[Read more]
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