[-empyre-] Week 4: Lilly Irani, Shaka McGlotten, John Stadler, and Luke Stark

[Patrick Keilty]

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, welcome to
Week 4! I am pleased to introduce guest discussants Lilly Irani (US), Shaka
McGlotten (US/ DE), John Stadler (US), and Luke Stark (CA/ US).

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.

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.

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.

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."


Patrick Keilty
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
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