<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you all for a great discussion last week. I hope to respond more to your thought provoking comments when I get a chance. Meanwhile, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">welcome to Week 4! I am pleased to introduce guest discussants </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lilly Irani (US), Shaka McGlotten (US/ DE), John Stadler (US), and Luke Stark (CA/ US). </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lilly Irani is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego. Her work examines and intervenes in the cultural politics of high tech work. She is currently writing a book on cultural politics of innovation and development in transnational India, entitled Entrepreneurial Citizenship: Innovators and their Others in Indian Development. She is also the co-founder and maintainer of digital labor activism tool Turkopticon. She has published her work at New Media & Society, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Science, Technology & Human Values, as well as at SIGCHI and CSCW. Her work has also been covered in The Nation, The Huffington Post, andNPR. Previously, she spent four years as a User Experience Designer at Google. She has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University and a PhD from UC Irvine in Informatics.</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">Shaka McGlotten is Associate Professor of media|society|&the arts at Purchase College-SUNY. He is an artist and anthropologist who works on digital cultures and screen media. His writing on race, sex, and technology appear in journals and anthologies. He is the author of Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality and co-editor of Black Genders and Sexualities, as well as Zombie Sexuality.</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">John Stadler is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University. He is currently writing his dissertation, titled “Pornography and the Everyday,” which tracks how pornography’s saturation into everyday life has altered the manner in which pleasure is produced, received, and spoken of. His recent articles have appeared in Jump Cut and Art and Documentation.</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">Luke Stark is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University under the supervision of Helen Nissenbaum. Hid dissertation project, “That Signal Feeling: Emotion and Interaction Design from Smartphones to the ‘Anxious Seat,’” explores how psychological tools and techniques have been built into the interaction design of the mobile digital device we use on a daily basis through a genealogy of human mood tracking from the 19th century to the present. Focusing on affect and emotion, his broader scholarship explores the changing nature of human subjectivity in the computational age. Some of his other projects examine the links between emotion and online privacy; the connection between values and design in digital information systems and coding/hacker/maker practice; everyday affect, user experience design, and the "on-command" economy; and the cultural and political potential of emoticons and emoji. He is currently in the preliminary stages of developing his second major project, a history of what I call "visceral data."</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><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></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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