Search Results for information silos

..., information, and death/disability underscores just how concerned early Americans were with the potentially harmful effects of information silos. The concern with information siloing, at first glance, seems anachronistic to early America. Eli Pariser popularized the concept of a “filter bubble” in 2011 when...

... identity and futurity. Piper advocates for a statistically driven computational criticism, Lennon for a critical history of computation’s literary and linguistic applications, and Dinnen for a theoretically informed close reading of novels and films engaged with computational culture. In Enumerations...

... the world through Native rather than settler optics? How might this alternative mode of seeing inform an Asian Americanist reading practice? Pegues’s study of the Gold Rush–era folk figure “China Joe” attempts to answer such questions. Whereas public history guides us to view China Joe primarily through his...

... of “prosthetic narrative.” Not coincidentally, such traits lie at the heart of how scholars value life writing as both validating and informing the critical orientation of disability studies and poverty studies alike. Yet the powerful connection between material impoverishment and literary creation in mendicant...

... on the social blogging platform Tumblr.com and other informal social networks constitutes a new and important form of versioning that reaches different audiences and opens up new pedagogical opportunities. Though separated by decades, Tumblr and This Bridge both represent vernacular pedagogy networks that value...

... siloing has stymied serious critical attention to Bacon s, Hobbes s, and Locke s American work which brings me to my second area of intervention. The formative American work of these philosophers can most readily be observed in the business archive comprising corporate records of plantation companies...