Melissa Chalmers Profile
Melissa Chalmers

@mechalms

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Lecturer at UMSI; interested in the work, workers, and values underlying digital media/culture/infrastructures.

Ann Arbor, MI
Joined July 2010
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Melissa Chalmers
9 years
.@MelissaRogers17 exploring sense modalities, queer worldmaking (& worshipping in the church of Leigh Star) at the awesome #MidweSTS.
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Melissa Chalmers
9 years
hey, I won a thing!
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9 years
Congratulations to our own Melissa Chalmers (@mechalms), winner of 2016's @umichgradschool outstanding GSI award!
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Melissa Chalmers
10 years
@amelia_acker @gwijthoff @mcburton @thomas_lodato This is my #82 tweet ever. I hope you all receive a notification to turn up the volume.
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Melissa Chalmers
10 years
@gwijthoff @amelia_acker @mcburton @thomas_lodato Twitter has a funny sense of "often," however. .
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
RT @maureenjohnson: Social media isn't the problem. Shooting children is the problem.
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
Black women representations entangled w material production infrastructures, fr resource extraction to Google results @safiyanoble #DL14.
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
Intervene in narrative of tech as (value-free) tool, must foreground black feminist frameworks that engage w oppression @safiyanoble #DL14.
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
Reimagining social media production chain: bringing CCM into convo with industrial prod. Lots of labor, lots of danger. @ubiquity75 #DL14.
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
Hardware, software, & content production all rely on intensive human labor, obfuscation of material & immaterial labor. @ubiquity75 #DL14.
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
Supply chain logistics' ambivalent relationship to info- ravenously consumes info abt product while refusing info abt labor @miriamkp #DL14.
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
nice reflection by @wragge on the complexities of context - of collections, digitization, users, & the wild web
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
Recognizing the tech & cultural work of being counted & countable in papers from @profwernimont, @wewatchwatchers, & @jenterysayers #DSJandH.
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Melissa Chalmers
11 years
@blckmtlrbtdth @amelia_acker @mcburton @gwijthoff Can't sue, can critique? Twitter didn't get our binary busting message #knobs #polyphony.
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Melissa Chalmers
12 years
Overheard at #4s2013: Q: what's the Instagram filter for algorithmic living? A: black & white?.
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Melissa Chalmers
12 years
RT @evgenymorozov: What's the hipster version of "big data"? And does it involve the abacus and punch cards?.
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Melissa Chalmers
13 years
great discussion on "small data." moving away from binaries toward relational, contextual, practice-oriented view of data #iconf13.
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