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Digital Accessibility and You

I have been working on a series of blog posts on digital accessibility for the last several months. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart...

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Image featuring photos of the chat's participants and their Twitter handles. Text reads "Scholars for Social Justice Presents #SSJResist Twitter Chat. Racism Resistance & Free Speech. Tuesday, February 13, 7PM CST"

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Recap: Scholars for Social Justice Twitter Chat

Last Tuesday, February 13th, Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ) held their first Twitter chat on the subject of "Racism, Resistance, and Free Speech”...

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Privacy, Security, and Your "Data Shadow"

Whether you call it our "data shadow," "data selfie," "data shed" or something else entirely, most, if not all, of us have left traces of our life,...

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Black Listing Then and Now?: Similarities and Continuities

On February 6, 2018 “Black Listed” held its second class. We began the class with what is now becoming a usual fashion: we welcomed each other,...

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CCSWG18 Week 1 Write-Up: Gender + Programming Culture

WEEK 1: GENDER + PROGRAMING CULTURE by Ali Rachel Pearl Week 1 Threads: Week 1: COLOSSUS and LUMINARY: The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) Code...

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#DomainsResist - Building a Protest Archive

What have we learned from the Women's March? The turnout this weekend for Women's March 2018 was wonderful to see. Another year, and another moment...

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Twenty Things Higher Ed Can Learn from the Parkland High School Kids #MarchforOurLives #REV

What Higher Ed Can Learn from High School Activists #MarchforOurLives #REV I’m thinking about yesterday's #MarchforOurLives protest in DC and all...

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It Is a Busy Time for Tech & Ethics

Recently we have seen a lot of bad news about digital technologies, social media platforms, and data breeches. A part of me hesitates to call it '...

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Our Lives Matter

“The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense...

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Can We Do Better Than a 10 Year Gap in Knowledge (re: digital privacy, ethics, etc)?

I have been chewing on a topic and I could use others' help. I, like many others, am frustrated by the enormous time gap between scholarly...

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First Blog: #ToStartAConversation

*** Trigger Warning: This blog post and/or references, contains information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors...

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SSRC Works with Facebook To Make Data Available for Ethically Responsible Research

Dr. Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and a member of HASTAC's Council of Advisors, today announced a crucial...

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event flyer for "recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage, arte publico, and us latina/o digital humanities" on march 22nd, 2019 from 12-1pm at Arizona State University

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Lunch with Nexus (3/22): Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Arte Público, and US Latina/o Digital Humanities

The Nexus Digital Research Co-op invites you to join us for a brown bag lunch with Drs. Carolina A. Villarroel and Gabriela Baeza Ventura from the...

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Upcoming Conference February 16-17, 2018 "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence"

Do not miss the Scholar and Feminist Conference: "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies To End State Violence" on February 16-17 at the Diana Center at...

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“Scholar, Speaker, and Strategist:” An Interview with Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain is a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C...

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