Janet Abbate
@JanetAbbateVT
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STS professor @ Virginia Tech, historian of computing and gender
Joined May 2016
Thinking historically about how we got here. How the Internet lost its soul - The Washington Post
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After 50 years of networked communications, commercial interests have eclipsed the public good.
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Mar Hicks: Heteronormativity multiplies gender bias #MyMotherWasAComputer
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Tiago Saraiva: cloning oranges ➡️ mode of production ➡️ social organization of farming ➡️ racial project in S Africa #shot2018
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Tech in”packages” that include not only functional systemic elements but cultural meanings #SHOT2018
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Yale renames Calhoun College to Grace Murray Hopper College!
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Ben Peters (after Latour): "Technology is society made temporary." #shiftctrl
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Kavita Philip uncovers 17th cen origins of piracy as "generative." Are pirates aligned w/ makers? #shiftctrl
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Fred Turner and Nick Montfort panel on the cultural meaing of hacking & making: freedom, salvation, or rebellion? #shiftctrl
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