• We Are Not Misunderstood by Accident 

    We Are Not Misunderstood by Accident 

    In the fall of 2001, a gas station owner in Arizona was murdered. His name was Balbir Singh. He was Sikh, not Muslim, but that distinction did not matter to the man who killed him. The United States had already decided what a Muslim looked like, what threat looked like, and which bodies could be…

  • Seeking Peer Review: Beyond Prescription (preprint on cultural memory, archives, ecology)

    Preprint Open for Feedback Beyond Prescription: Naming Grief, Refusing Erasure explores how intersectional ecology can frame cultural identity, media, and philosophy. Engaging with consumer culture, U.S. domestic terrorism discourses, and relational, non-anthropocentric ways of knowing, it invites feedback from a wide range of fields. I’m also open to peer-reviewing aligned work. 📄 Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17214609…

  • Podcast on Racial Bias in AI

    Hi All. I’m a huge fan of Dr. Joy Buolamwini, and her book UnMasking AI. You can learn more about it here. https://www.unmasking.ai/ And you can listen to her podcast episode here: https://brenebrown.com/podcast/unmasking-ai-my-mission-to-protect-what-is-human-in-a-world-of-machines or watch her on youtube:

  • How To Lead An Academic Social Network: A Personal History of HASTAC.org, 2001-Present.

    I wrote a lively, personal, factual but also anecdotal (sharing the “tea”) open access history of HASTAC.org (NSF calls us “the world’s first and oldest academic social network”–older than Facebook!), “How To Lead an Academic Social Network” for the journal Public Humanities.” It includes six “Lessons” that apply to leading any organization: #1: Learn from…

  • Data Physicalization

    In choosing an image for our current homepage, Jackie Cahill (Project Manager and Communications Specialist at CUNY), selected the installation by Claudia Berger and Chris Allen Sula that greeted all HASTAC conference goers as we entered the main hall at Pratt Institute for “Critical and Social Justice” in June 2023. The work is a physical…

  • Join the Collective – The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

    Call for Participation The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing both graduate student members and non-student members…

  • CFP: Submissions for The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy special issue – Labor, Political Economy, and Activism

    Themed Issue 24: Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation Issue Editors: Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University Anna Alexis Larsson, Indiana University The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research for a…

  • Scholar Spotlight: Ian G. Williams

    Scholar Spotlight: Ian G. Williams

    Why did you apply to HASTAC? When I applied to HASTAC, I was in my second year in the PhD program in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate Center, taking an elective alongside required courses in social welfare policy and qualitative research methodologies. In my policy class I was exploring the emergence of an artificial…

  • Call for Proposals: Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with Archives Research Compute Hub

    The Internet Archive invites applications to Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with ARCH. This pilot program will support less well-resourced organizations throughout the world with access to the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) and thousands of web archive collections, technical support and training, and learning opportunities with a supportive cohort of peers.

  • CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective & Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP)

    I’m pleased to share a new call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing, called On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication. Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and through which intermediaries. Still, even in more fluid forms…