<div dir="ltr"><div>Welcome to Week 3. I am pleased to introduce guest discussants Jacob Gaboury (US), Matthew Gagne (CA/ LB), Ava Lew (CA), and Natasha Dow <span style="font-size:12.8px">Schüll</span> (US). </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jacob Gaboury is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Visual Culture at Stony Brook University and Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His work engages the history and critical theory of digital media through the fields of visual culture, media archaeology, and queer theory. He is currently finishing a manuscript on the archaeology of computer graphics titled Image Objects and beginning a book on the queer history of computation titled On Uncomputable Numbers. His work has been previously published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Visual Culture, Media-N, and Camera Obscura.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mathew Gagne is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Mathew's dissertation research examines the impact of globally networked gay dating technologies on queer intimacy, sexuality, and subjectivity in Beirut, Lebanon. This research focuses on the relationship between sex, fantasy/reality, and information within digitally mediated intimate lives. His work has previously been published in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, and the websites Jadaliyya.com and Muftah.org. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ava Lew is a PhD student in the iSchool at the University of Toronto. Her research interests revolves around the development, uses and effects of information communication technologies as part of larger socio-technical systems. With a background in communication, she has conducted research on website development and relationship building with users. Ava’s current research entails examining the design, use and role of human-to-computer and human-to-human interactions, as mediated by the user interface, as well as to what degree such interactivity affect group collaboration and individual engagement in social causes or politically-oriented activities. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Natasha Dow Schüll is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Her recent book, ADDICTION BY DESIGN: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press 2012), draws on extended research among compulsive gamblers and the designers of the slot machines they play to explore the relationship between technology design and the experience of addiction. Her next book, KEEPING TRACK: Personal Informatics, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, forthcoming 2016), concerns the rise of digital self-tracking technologies and the new modes of introspection and self-governance they engender. Her documentary film, BUFFET: All You Can Eat Las Vegas, has screened multiple times on PBS and appeared in numerous film festivals.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span></span><span></span>Patrick Keilty<div>Assistant Professor<br>Faculty of Information<br></div><div>Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies</div><div>University of Toronto</div><div><a href="http://www.patrickkeilty.com/" target="_blank">http://www.patrickkeilty.com/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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