[-empyre-] Week 3: Jacob Gaboury (US), Matthew Gagne (CA/ LB), Ava Lew (CA), and Natasha Dow Schüll (US)

[Patrick Keilty]

Welcome to Week 3. I am pleased to introduce guest discussants Jacob
Gaboury (US), Matthew Gagne (CA/ LB), Ava Lew (CA), and Natasha Dow Schüll
 (US).

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.

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.

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.

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.


Patrick Keilty
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
http://www.patrickkeilty.com/
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