Articles & Chapters
A select list of articles and book chapters by CMS/W faculty, researchers, and students.
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Of Miracles and Multiverses
In The Atlantic, Alan Lightman writes that “surprisingly, some recent proposals in physics reveal that believers and nonbelievers may have more in common than they think.”
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Restoring the Fairness Doctrine can’t prevent another Rush Limbaugh
Professor Heather Hendershot writes that “Limbaugh once boasted he had single-handedly ‘brought AM radio back from the dead.’ It was simultaneously one of the most accurate and least offensive comments he ever made.”
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Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry
In the introduction to the edited volume Ludics, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon and Vassiliki Rapti write that “this book takes the bold position that play is an antidote to dark times. Rather than an escape hatch, it provides opportunity for discovery, connection, joy, care, and relational aesthetics—conditions that are central to worldliness, not extraneous to it.”
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Heather Hendershot in the Washington Post: The 2020 party conventions are actually what the parties have always dreamed of
“Being online will give parties more control of how television viewers experience their conventions.”
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Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
“Adequately supporting diverse students will require more than a light-touch intervention.”
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Empathy for the game master: how virtual reality creates empathy for those seen to be creating VR
Examining how VR directs emotional identification not toward the subjects of particular VR titles, but toward VR developers themselves.
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“Connecting the Unconnected”: A Critical Assessment of US Satellite Internet Services
Without serious commitments from governments and the private sector to follow through on this rhetoric, satellite Internet technology could fail to reach the communities that need it most.
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Exploring Gesture-Based Tangible Interactions with a Lighting AI Agent
To be presented at the 2019 International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies.
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms
First-of-its-kind field study of the media industry highlights trends, opportunities, and challenges to help advance the understanding and recognition of co-created works and practices
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Augmenting Reality: The Markers, Memories, and Meanings Behind Today’s AR
William Uricchio’s essay “considers today’s AR technologies in terms of these more deeply embedded practices of augmentation, particularly as they play out as interfaces in urban places.”
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New report: “#MoreThanCode: Practitioners reimagine the landscape of technology for justice and equity”
Published by the Technology for Social Justice Project, including CMS/W co-authors Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock and recent master’s student Maya Wagoner, S.M., ’17.
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Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination
Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock: “What paths, then, might lead us out of the matrix of domination?”
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Evaluating the Robustness of Learning Analytics Results Against Fake Learners
“The goal of this study is to evaluate the robustness of learning analytics results when the data contain a considerable number of fake learners.”
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Media, Communication, and Intersectional Analysis: Ten Comments for the International Panel on Social Progress
“The ‘filter bubble’ critique ignores the importance of subaltern counterpublics, although state and corporate propaganda is indeed a real problem.”
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Building Dark Patterns into Platforms: How GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User Experience
“GamerGate trapped both its unwilling targets and willing participants in an unending cycle of rhetorical invention through a mechanism of aggressive, hostile, mob-like activism.”
