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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...

..., and safety. Instead, this article argues that the tightly bound association of anti‐Black racial violence's recognizability to the visual has created a dynamic that simultaneously moves us closer to and further away from its ontological truths. Examining Twitter as a multisensorial platform and its users...

... Guatemala. With this drastic increase has come a spike in the use of crack cocaine, as well as the proliferation of drug rehabilitation centers. Run by Pentecostal Christians, these centers warehouse users (against their will) in the name of liberation. Locked up, tied up, and told to shape up, these users...

... labor, and on theorizing “nonindustrial” informational work of symbol makers and symbol users (a.k.a. “immaterial labor,” “no-collar workers,” “knowledge workers,” “creative labor,” or “mental labor”). © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Feminism Livia Tenzer When I was working...

... expression, however, does not signal the recomposition of the alienated Marxist worker. The Internet does not automatically turn every user into an active producer, and every worker into a creative subject. The process whereby production and consumption...

... parentheticals. (I usually integrate them during the edit.) But there are so many other things I don’t know that Google’s deep learning tools are picking up right now. I know I consented to it in that damn end-user license agreement I clicked on without reading, but I think that is so uncomfortable not knowing...

..., “‘Raving Amazons.’” 42 On the challenges facing users on social media and the relationship between social media, algorithms, and corporate media, see Harry, “Everyone Watches” ; Crockett, “‘Raving Amazons’” ; Noble, Algorithms of Oppression ; and Browne, Dark Matters. 41 Conley...

... of the cybernetic system, is the hidden source of value in late capitalism. 25 Even workers who are not involved in the programming and maintenance of the Internet are nevertheless inputting their labor as users. That is, in addition to providing new means of extending the labor time for all workers...

..., or troubles assimilation.2 Benderson’s literary works in English include Pretending to Say No (1991), User (1994), and Pacific Agony (2009), and the memoir The Roma- nian (2006). He has also published critical essays on dissident artists...

... and parlors for single ladies and gentlemen, but its public toilets were non-gender-specific rows of private single-user stalls with a common washing-up area. 9 Gender-segregated public toilets were virtually unknown in the United States before the 1880s. Their proliferation at that time was due in part...

... to share relevant online sites.5 Though book authors and web designers alike aspire to reach their desired audiences, only web designers can invite users to participate in making knowledge. In the acronym-friendly world of GIS, user contribu...

... of flexible labor and by shifting accountability to users, sharing economy platforms have also furthered increasingly insecure conditions for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, women, indigenous people, migrants, and peoples in the Global South. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly...

... of strong might ask whether and to what extent users are aware of the data records used to represent them. Are those data records malleable? Do they permit pseudonymity to novel structures and novel values? For example, do census forms permit subjects to occupy multiple racial categories, or none...

..., use , dependence , and addiction are not synonymous because not all users are dependent, and not all who are dependent are addicted. My use of these terms in this article reflects my attempt to be precise about the population at whom legal or medical intervention is directed. 6 In Crip...

... Black people, people of African descent, or people with darker skin in all societies, including nonwhite ones, following the lead of Art+Feminism. See Art+Feminism, “Art+Feminism User Group Anti-racism Policy.” 42. Three other editors made procedural comments but did not state a position...

... to buy a car or shoulder the costs of insurance, registration, and parking. Before social justice advocates like the Bus Riders Union (BRU) put the cause of civil rights and transit dependency at the forefront of Los Angeles municipal politics, the marginalization of low-income transit users...

... by the mid-1980s (16). U.S. legislators were necessarily onboard; “the U.S. policymaking establishment was determined to grant business users the maximum freedom to explore information technology networks as a private matter” (7...

... by homeless people to serve as residences and by intravenous drug users (IDUs) to serve as “shooting galleries” (injecting spaces). Some were seasonal edifices, their materials stored somewhere during the winter months and re-erected for use in warm weather. Many...

... messages while leaving the receiver of these messages in no doubt as to their source. Some messages displayed information, while others expected exchange with Motorway users. For instance, on the way to the Motorway one found...

... line breaks and featuring bold type to toggle between users) ( fig. 2 ). Figure 2. Literature as digital media. Figure 2. Literature as digital media. These features betray a (French) theory of literature as media. While avant-garde writers in the postwar period would turn to cybernetics...