Articles & Chapters
A select list of articles and book chapters by CMS/W faculty, researchers, and students.
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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.”
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Homebound: The Art of Public Space in Contemporary Cuba
How the exhibition of art in private homes intervenes in debates about public space in Havana.
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“I Just Don’t Know Where to Begin”: Designing to Facilitate the Educational Use of Commercial, Off-the-Shelf Video Games
Documenting the implementation of commercial, off-the-shelf games in their secondary level, humanities (e.g. social studies, history, languages) classrooms.
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Engineering Innovation Through Rhetorical Invention
A “What-How-Why” diagram integrates the thinking that chemical engineers need to cover as they design the work of a project, with the thinking that they need to do in order to communicate that work to an audience.
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Toward Transformative Media Organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit Media Work in the United States
We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality.
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Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System
Kevin Driscoll, CMS ’09, in IEEE Spectrum: “The history of the BBS shows that pre-Internet social media was pretty great.”
