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...Zara Dinnen Abstract This essay considers the figure of the “user” as an emergent subject of late twentieth‐century US culture, in relation to the World Wide Web and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The user is a subject position that is historical in the sense that use relations have...

... Tumblr, which was prominent between 2007 and 2018 both for its chaotic and confusing “rhizomatic” structure, as well as its popularity with marginalized users and fan communities. This article uses the One Direction fandom as a lens through which to examine the affordances of Tumblr as a platform...

...Jonathan Cohn This article focuses on the birth of social networking and digital recommendation technologies and their relationship to current cultures of postfeminism and neoliberalism. These technologies, primarily designed to bring users in touch with other people and consumer goods, are tied...

... in the 1980s conceived of personal computer users not only as abstracted masculine individuals but rather addressed users within their roles in companionate relationships, in this case as part of a couple. These programs proposed methods through which computing could be used to assist in creating better...

...Whitney (Whit) Pow Abstract The span between 1973 and 1981 marks a number of significant changes in computer history, medical history, and queer and transgender (trans) history in the United States: the development of the earliest object-oriented graphical user interfaces used in the Xerox Alto...

... as Asian or Asian American. 24 conflates East Asians, Asian Americans, and West Asian ethnic groups together by representing all three as users as well as subjects of digital imaging technologies. Camera Obscura 2009 Lisa Nakamura is a research professor at the Institute of Communication Research...

... on their assumptions about those products' primary users. Michel Foucault's theories of governmentality and disciplinary technologies are also employed to understand how the micropolitics of gendered product design connect with the macropolitics of social control. Building on feminist technology research, this study...

... media users’ unpaid digital labor—creating, sharing, and responding to content—sustains the platforms that extract their data as “surplus value.” It further draws on sociologist Erving Goffman’s account of “face-work” in order to clarify the way in which a person’s digital identity is produced...

... stratification and precarity as a meaningfully user-generated platform. “We all deserve our best chance.” —Ingrid Nilsen, “Something I Want You to Know (Coming Out)” “Oops, I'm gay.” —Natalie Wynn, “Shame | ContraPoints” “SUR-PRISE! ” —Abigail Thorn, “Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story...

... software (such as Google’s personalized search or Facebook’s affective economy) designed to provide a reflection of users’ desires. The films offer insight into what the sexual and affective interlacing of humans and machines entails and conjure two competing visions of the future that I believe...

... to interested institutions and individuals who rent and/or buy films. The person receiving the catalog writes the distribu- tion company booking the film for a specific time and place. The distribution company sends the film. The film is returned by the user immediately after...

... with the emergence of the Internet as a mass-­ media form. There is censorship on the Internet that is not state driven but is the result of regulations determined by private com- panies’ undisclosed content monitoring policies. There is also censorship among Internet users who, capitalizing on the unre...

... of this essay, Hansen argues that the Internet pro- vides an unprecedented possibility for a new ethical encounter between humans, in part because it can render them invisible to each other.4 Hansen observes that digital art can produce affec- tive states in the user that might ultimately lead...

... The programs “run” on a desktop system consisting of a microcomputer (80486, 25 MHz) with 120 Mbyte hard disk, a laser videodisc player, 234 Figure 2. A user selection menu from Breast Cancer: Adjuvant Therapy, Dartmouth Interactive Media Laboratory’s...

... but the site also fea- tures no nudity whatsoever and focuses exclusively on the face of orgasm. The Web site’s success is indicative of changes in the adult entertainment industry — changes in adult consumer demograph- ics brought about by an ever-expanding audience of Web-based users...

... performance and modulation of a quantified self. 8 Not only is the woman apparently presenting herself as a suitable female partner for a male suitor, eHarmony itself was founded as a heterosexual-only dating community. Its evangelical Christian founder envisioned it as a forum for users to find opposite...

... of HIV transmission, women can still get the blame. The prostitutes in Germany, like other populations of women found to have higher than average rates of HIV infection (including other sex workers, IV drug users, women of color, and women from countries where heterosexual...

... Press 133 134  •  Camera Obscura the classroom, or the possibilities for interinstitutional experiences was striking. The potential for more egalitarian relationships trum- peted by many in the free courseware movement differed radi- cally from the lived experience of remote users. High...

... that she will achieve hair that can be easily and frequently changed. The product user is told she will get the “benefit” of hair that is “manageable” and “smooth” so that she will always be able to “get a comb through it12 The allure of the product comes in its promise to provide Black women...

... as a $1,000 pair of glitter pumps and a $1,500 bookcase. In all, she asked for thirty items with a combined price tag of $13,000. When the website Reality Tea posted her wish list, the response was more than vicious. A user identified as mamazog offered her a supply of Valtrex [an antiviral drug to treat...