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...Robert W. Gehl This paper argues that the failure of MySpace and the rise of Facebook in the social networking site market is due in part to the degrees in which either site associates users, technology, and marketers into a successful “real software abstraction.” Real software abstraction...

... of one of the survivors of the wreck, and the Facebook story of drowned South African cadet Akhona Marara Felicity Geveza, the essay centers the nonevent that unfolded in the wake of the supposed catastrophe. It focuses on the role of economic extraction in creating the historically entangled Indian...

... to cause change. Currently, though, there’s an abundance of knowledge, and of media, about how fucked up the world is. A variety of texts—memes on “Weird Facebook,” Claudia Rankine’s Citizen , and journalism about Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket —register frustration with assumptions that the Left can...

...,” with 93 likes on Instagram and 269 reactions on Facebook, and climbing.) Importantly, they also have a hidden surplus value extracted by machine learning. As Trevor Paglen observes, “Human visual culture has become a special case of vision, an exception to the rule. The overwhelming majority of images...

...Figure 3 Facebook page “Defending Lester and Alex Occupying Wushan HeHe Group.” Screenshot courtesy of the author ...

... twenty thousand people had joined a Facebook group called please don’t jump that was created in response to the postcard; within seven days, membership had reached past sixty thousand.42 Members of please don’t jump took to the group’s...

... the viewing point. Three additional videos filmed with Ricoh handheld cameras in 1080p tour al-Qibli mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The AJE compilation provides access to a live-action video from the perspective of the camera that films a full 360 degrees around its center point. The Facebook platform...

... that encourages sexual open- ness and alcohol consumption) and Youssef’s credentials to interpret the Qur’an better than Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (all the while “dressed up like Naomi Campbell20 The song went viral on Facebook and YouTube and polarized...

... the mere recuperation or reappropriation of defunct or problematic objects. Indeed, a conversation about whether or not to discard the reparative ignited a comment war on Sara Ahmed’s Facebook page a few months back — another indication of why postmil- lenials are fleeing the social networking site...

.... • • • Everywhere, Facebook blue is darker. All worlds are contained and concealed in the cloud now. It has too many boxes, too much chatter, too much writing round and round. More boxes pop up to obscure other images and texts. Too much marginalia. Too many channels. Amid curfew and pandemic, spokesmodel...

... articles, and actions in cities. Through a dedicated website, FGF set up a “knowledge bank” collecting sources challenging fossil gas and instructing on alternatives. The social media channels of FGF on Facebook and Twitter were instrumental for reaching a large audience, alongside physical venues...

... equity in the platforms rather than line themselves up for the deterriorialized factory work in the stations provided by Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and the like. Here and now, there are collectives of activists, poets, visionaries, and migrants that will claim the here and now, snatch it back from...

... of free labor (with Facebook as the dominant figure). Stories of Foxconn workers’ suicides and the speedup of the assembly line are taken to speak for conditions of digital labor in Asia more broadly. Instead of regional, historical, political specificity and historical contingency, the obsession...

... Statement.” 16 Young America’s Foundation, “Campus Activism.” 17 Bauer-Wolf, “#DoesUIowaLoveMe.” 18 Firstpost , “List of Indian Academicians Accused of Sexual Harassment.” 19 Menon, “Statement by Feminists on Facebook Campaign to ‘Name and Shame.’” 20 Anasuya...

.... For Trump and Twitter, see Fusch, Digital Demagogue . 60. Browne, “Everybody's Got a Little Light,” 546 . References boyd danah . “ White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with Myspace and Facebook .” In Race after the Internet , edited...

... Facebook posts, has 48 percent of the vote and faces a runoff with another Republican. “On her Facebook page, Ms. Bruner called Mr. Obama ‘Ahab the Arab,’ and wrote that he ‘hates all white people and all wealthy people because to him wealthy means white.’ Although she condemned the Ku Klux Klan in one...

... be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.” 4 While Google and Facebook first provided massive demonstrations of the value of data by using it to generate...

..., invites more extensive participation. It contains a web page for each of the 237,000 Native Americans who appeared on the US Census of 1900, the historic low point of the indigenous population in North America. This “Facebook of the dead” permits visitors...

..., it also demands an up-to-the-moment analysis of how digitally networked communicativity enables long-existing racial hierarchies and violences to meet new horizons of con-testation. A slogan and a hashtag that crystallized out of a 2013 Facebook update by Alicia Garza titled “A Love Note to Black People...