technology – Confluence

After Yang

by Anna MaitlandPosted on March 13, 2023March 13, 2023

Within these filmic depictions, East Asians remain eternal outsiders and representative of an automated world that threatens humanity, culminating in the expression of the Western fear of a technological future that looks Asian.

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CONFLUENCE.BLOG

by XY ZhouPosted on May 15, 2022May 13, 2022

Today, I met Marlboro on the bus. Marlo for short. “Like that old cigarette brand?”

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Truth-Seeking in the Digital Age

by Siena Ballotta GarmanPosted on April 8, 2022

One of the greatest challenges of political polarization is that all participants are passionately convinced of their own grasp on the truth.

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Swipe Swap: The First Ever Free Clothing Exchange

by Natasha FengaPosted on November 4, 2021November 3, 2021

An idea for the first ever free and smart in-person clothing exchange.

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How Computing Became Masculine in the Cold War

by Lauren BalserPosted on September 24, 2021

Unlike factory or shipyard work, for which there was a masculine precedent prior to the Rosie the Riveter-era of feminism, there was no set computing culture prior to the beginning of the Cold War because the industry did not exist. What changed?

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Cycool

by Olivia Kelly and Mina KimPosted on September 16, 2021September 16, 2021

Introducing an app designed to combat waste in the fashion industry.

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Our Mediated Lives: Floating Alone in Cyberspace

by Kyle KimPosted on September 13, 2021

How do our phones affect our relationships with one another? How do they affect our sense of empathy? Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT whose research revolves around human-technology interaction, joins Kyle Kim for a discussion.

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The Blue Screen

by Marisa ViolaPosted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020

An Homage to Wallace Stevens and the Actual World

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Cyborg Subjectivity

by Austen WigglesworthPosted on November 20, 2018April 6, 2021

"The question of the relationship between humans and our technologies is not a new discussion and neither is the fear that technology may lead to a possible 'dehumanization' or 'denaturalization.'"

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Sex Dolls

by Alexandra ShvedaPosted on September 19, 2018March 25, 2021

"Sex dolls illustrate the close relationship between patriarchy and commodity capitalism, as they both are built on ownership and objectification." A look at the potentials and pitfalls of the growing sex-tech industry.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarconsumerism relationships robots sex dolls technology transhumanism

Mobile Hotspots

by Grace EasterlyPosted on December 22, 2016November 5, 2020

Seventy-five elements—two thirds of the periodic table—go into the making of your smartphone. But where do they come from?

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Eliza Re-Examined

by Alice CaiPosted on January 5, 2016October 6, 2020

What do the human interactions with this early chatterbot reveal about relationships, not only between people and robots, but also between people themselves?

ResearchStudent Publicationspsychology relational artifact technology

The Gilded

by Caroline SpeetjensPosted on May 22, 2015October 7, 2022

Five days, seven characters, a thousand city streets, and one riveting story: "The Gilded" is an experimental piece investigating the potential of the website as a storytelling platform.

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Everybody’s Watching

by Adam Bligh-HasanPosted on May 7, 2015October 7, 2022

"What will the power of surveillance machines be used for? Will we remember that we are being watched?" An encounter with artist Addie Wagenknecht's exhibit Shellshock.

CriticismFirst-Year Writing Seminarart technology