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  • Smart Speakers Are a Great Tool for the Visually Impaired

    April 16, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the Lifehacker, April 16, article, “Smart Speakers Are a Great Tool for the Visually Impaired.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Touchscreens have become the primary way many of us interact with the digital world, but they aren’t great options for the visually impaired. Smartphones have small displays and require precise controls, and their screens shut off after a few moments of inactivity, which makes them difficult to use if your vision isn’t great. In these instances, a smart speaker is probably a much more useful device. In a touching new essay for The Atlantic, Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) describes the experience of teaching his blind father to use Amazon’s Echo. There’s a bit of a learning curve, like with any new technology, but his dad soon starts asking Alexa for sports scores and stock market updates. He also uses Amazon’s voice messaging feature to communicate with his son, as well as another friend who has an Echo at home.
     

    For the full article, visit the Lifehacker website

    Published in: Lifehacker

  • Voice Assistants Are Only Intuitive If You’re Already Tech Savvy

    April 16, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the How-To-Geek, April 16, article,Voice Assistants Are Only Intuitive If You’re Already Tech Savvy.”  The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    It’s easy to confuse “familiar” with “intuitive.” This applies to voice interfaces as much as it does to desktop ones. Tech savvy people think of Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant as easy-to-use, because we’re used to using search engines and know to employ similar language when asking a question out loud. For people who haven’t used search engines, however, it can be hard to wrap your head around this. Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech), writing for The Atlantic, talks about watching his 82 year old father, who has been blind most of his life, try to use the Amazon Echo. His dad is frustrated when Alexa won’t respond to the nickname “Lexi.”

    For the full article, visit the How-To-Geek website.

     

    Published in: How-To-Geek

  • Face the Nation

    April 15, 2018

    James A. “Sandy” Winnefeld

    An interview with James A. “Sandy” Winnefeld Jr. on CBS News was quoted in “Face the Nation,” which aired on Sunday, April 15, 2018. Winnefeld is distinguished professor and Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) senior fellow in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. 

    Excerpt:

    The U.S. says missile strikes on three sites in Syria early Saturday were successful in setting the Syrian government's chemical weapons program back years. The strikes came in response to the suspected use of poison gas against civilians in the outskirts of Damascus on April 7.

    Retired Navy Admiral James Winnefeld, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a CBS News military and homeland security analyst, and Ambassador James Jeffrey, the former U.S. envoy to Turkey and Iraq, joined us to discuss the efficacy of the strikes, the impact on U.S. relations with Russia and more.

    The following is a transcript of the interview with Winnefeld and Jeffrey that aired Sunday, April 15, 2018, on “Face the Nation.”

    For the full article on “Face the Nation,” visit the CBS News website.  

    Published in: CBS News

  • Countries Fail to Share Satellite Climate Data

    April 13, 2018

    Mariel Borowitz, PhD

    Mariel Borowitz, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the Science Magazine, April 13, article, “Countries Fail to Share Satellite Climate Data.” The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    From 1957 to 2016, space-faring nations launched 458 government-operated, Earth-observing satellites, which gather data for weather forecasts and climate studies. But data from just 38% of the satellites are shared without restrictions, Mariel Borowitz, a space policy researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, notes in her new book Open Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data. Whereas Europe and the United States have set the standard for open data, she says, Russia and Japan tend to restrict their availability, for example, by requiring agreements and conditions that can be cumbersome. And sometimes countries attempt to sell satellite data, as in the case of Canada's RadarSat series. Nations less experienced in launching satellites often build them as technology demonstrations, with little thought to data dissemination. Still, Borowitz notes, data sharing is on the rise. “It's getting significantly better.”

    For the full article, visit the Science Magazine website.

    Published in: Science Magazine

  • How to Check What Personal Information Facebook Has, and Whether You’re Data Was Shared

    April 12, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the Romper, April 12, article “How to Check What Personal Information Facebook Has, and Whether You’re Data Was Shared.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    So your data may have been shared with Cambridge Analytica, but there are ways to check what personal information Facebook has — if that gives you any sort of comfort. In case you're out of the loop and wondering what happened, in short, Facebook suspended Donald Trump’s data operations team for misusing people’s personal information. Basically, a Facebook app developer (of the "This Is Your Digital Life" app) collected 50 million Facebook profiles (including that of Mark Zuckerberg), and sold that information to Cambridge Analytica, according to The Verge. Facebook said it has hired a forensics team to investigate Cambridge Analytica, which reportedly hasn't yet deleted Facebook user data as promised, The Verge reported, but is allegedly conducting a third-party audit over Facebook data… But this data breach may have a domino effect, many fear. "There are certainly thousands, if not millions, of applications that had similar access and collected similar data — and many are still doing it, although under different terms," Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and contributing editor to the Atlantic, reportedly told Vox.
     

    For the full article, visit Romper’s website.

    Published in: Romper

  • Point-Based System Launched for Beijing Permanent Residency

    April 12, 2018

    Fei-Ling Wang

    Fei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, was interviewed in the Straits Times Press, April 12, article Point-Based System Launched for Beijing Permanent Residency.” The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. 

    Excerpt:

    Professor Wang Fei-Ling, from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of Interna-tional Affairs, noted that the latest changes were part of a trend of us-ing hukou to attract talent to cities.

    Beijing first declared its intention to roll out a point-based system in 2015. Similar systems have been launched in the past few years in such cities as Shanghai and Shen-zhen.

    “Low-skilled and low-wage workers from outside have never had much chance to obtain a Beijing hukou, even though they may have been an indispensable part of the Beijing economy for a long time,” said Prof Wang.

    Find the full article in The Straits Times website. 

    Published in: The Strait Times

  • 9 Questions About Facebook and Data Sharing You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask

    April 10, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the Vox, April 10, article, “9 Questions About Facebook and Data Sharing You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Baby pictures, vacation check-ins, your new job announcement — they all seem like innocuous posts to mark simple milestones. But your personal life is Facebook’s business. Those data points, taken together, build a powerful (and lucrative) profile of who you are and what you value. That’s perhaps one of the most important lessons from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the revelation that the firm may harvested data from as many as 87 million Facebook users. But Cambridge Analytica is far from the only firm that gained access to vast amounts of users’ personal information. “There are certainly thousands, if not millions, of applications that had similar access and collected similar data — and many are still doing it, although under different terms,” Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and contributing editor to the Atlantic, told Vox.

    For the full article, visit the Vox website.

    Published in: The Vox

  • 2001, 50 Years Later

    April 6, 2018

    Jay Telotte

    Jay Telotte, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the Science Magazine, April 6, article, “2001, 50 Years Later.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Fifty years after its appearance, 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a film that commands attention. This is partly because of its status as the most influential science fiction movie ever made; partly because of the ever-growing reputation of its director, Stanley Kubrick; and partly because it has always been a work that confounds easy interpretation—and so readily opens itself to multiple interpretations. Michael Benson's Space Odyssey, an epic-like account of the film's planning, making, and reception, will hardly answer all of the questions that haunt it, but his thoroughly researched, multivoiced narrative should become essential reading for anyone wanting to penetrate the mysteries that continue to swirl around this work and its creator. Written by Jay Telotte, Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    For the full article, visit the Science Magazine website.

    Published in: Science Magazine

  • Remembering a Slugger Named Mickey Mantle

    April 1, 2018

    Johnny Smith

    Johnny Smith, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, was mentioned in The Washington Times, April 1, article “Remembering a Slugger Named Mickey Mantle.” The School of History and Sociology is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    A joyful fringe benefit of baseball fandom is memories of games past. And reading this book took me back to my first major league games the summer of 1956, as a young soldier stationed in Baltimore. A slugger named Mickey Mantle, of the New York Yankees, was terrorizing American League pitchers while delighting fans nationwide who felt they were witnessing the emergence of “the new Babe Ruth.” One evening at the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, an Oriole pitcher served up a fast ball to the muscular Mr. Mantle’s liking. CRACK! The ball vanished over the left field wall and seemed destined to come to earth somewhere near the city limits of Bethesda. I exaggerate, of course, but such is the privilege of a fan who worships the national pastime. And anyone who loves the sport will find hours of undiluted joy in one of the best books on baseball — or any other sport — that I have encountered. In addition to being astute fans, the authors are also professors — Randy Roberts at Purdue University, and Johnny Smith at Georgia Tech. Their intensive research is backed by brisk writing that lets this reader sense he was sitting in a prime third-base-line seat.

    For the full article, visit The Washington Times website.

    Published in: The Washington Times

  • Enough With the Trolley Problem

    March 30, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote The Atlantic, March 30, article, “Enough With the Trolley Problem.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Should an autonomous car endanger a driver over a pedestrian? What about an elderly person over a child? If the car can access information about nearby drivers it might collide with, should it use that data to make a decision? The trolley problem has become so popular in autonomous-vehicle circles, in fact, that MIT engineers have built a crowdsourced version of it, called Moral Machine, which purports to catalog human opinion on how future robotic apparatuses should respond in various conditions. But there’s a problem with the trolley problem. It does a remarkably bad job addressing the moral conditions of robot cars, boats, or workers, the domains to which it is most popularly applied today. Deploying it for those ends, especially as a source of answers or guidance for engineering or policy, leads to incomplete and dangerous conclusions about the ethics of machines. Written by Ian Bogost, contributing editor at The Atlantic. He is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

    For the full article, visit The Atlantic website.

    Published in: The Atlantic

  • The Reign of Lew Alcindor in the Age of Revolt

    March 30, 2018

    Johnny Smith

    Johnny Smith, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote The Undefeated, March 30, article, “The Reign of Lew Alcindor in the Age of Revolt.” The School of History and Sociology is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is known as one of the greatest basketball players in history. During his 20-year professional career with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers, he appeared in 19 All-Star Games, won six championships and collected six MVP awards. In retirement, he has become a prominent cultural commentator and writer, a leading voice on the intersection between sports and politics. Recently, he published a memoir about his collegiate career at UCLA, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court. Fifty years ago he was the most dominant college basketball player America had ever seen. Between 1967 and 1969, he led UCLA to three consecutive national titles and an 88-2 record. Yet, his legacy transcends the game; in the age of Black Power, he redefined the political role of black college athletes. In 1968, when black collegians debated boycotting the Olympics, Lew Alcindor, as he was then still known, emerged as the most prominent face in the revolt on campus. Why did Alcindor refuse to play in the Olympics? To answer that question we have to return to Harlem, New York, in July 1964, the first of many long, hot summers. Written by Johnny Smith, Julius C. "Bud" Shaw Professor of Sports, Society, and Technology and an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Tech.

    For the full article, visit The Undefeated website.

    Published in: The Undefeated

  • Why Are Sportswriters Whitewashing Baseball’s Dark Secrets

    March 29, 2018

    Johnny Smith

    Johnny Smith, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the Daily Beast, March 29, article, “Why Are Sportswriters Whitewashing Baseball’s Dark Secrets?” The School of History and Sociology is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    The results are in. Cooperstown has a new class. On Jan. 24, 2018, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America voted, electing Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome, and Trevor Hoffman to the Hall of Fame.  Once again, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Manny Ramirez, three superstars of the past whom the writers have branded “cheaters,” finished out of the running, and poor Sammy Sosa was so far down the list that he now will have to buy a ticket on StubHub to get into Wrigley Field. Baseball’s Fourth Estate, the sanctified moral arbiters of the national pastime, have spoken with righteous clarity. For more than a decade, since former Sen. George J. Mitchell’s investigation implicated 89 Major League players for using performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), baseball writers have tried to reclaim the mythical purity of the game. Written by Johnny Smith, Julius C. “Bud” Shaw Professor of Sports, Society, and Technology and an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Tech.

    For the full article, visit the Daily Beast website.

    Published in: The Daily Beast

  • What Facebook Doesn’t Tell You About Information it Collects

    March 25, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the PBS News Hour, March 25, article, “What Facebook Doesn’t Tell You About Information it Collects.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    To get an idea of the data Facebook collects about you, just ask for it … Facebook’s privacy practices have come under fire after a Trump-affiliated political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, got data inappropriately from millions of Facebook users … Ian Bogost, a Georgia Tech communications professor who built a tongue-in-cheek game called “Cow Clicker” in 2010, wrote in The Atlantic recently that abusing the Facebook platform for “deliberately nefarious ends” was easy to do then. What’s worse, he said, it was hard to avoid extracting private data. If “you played Cow Clicker, even just once, I got enough of your personal data that, for years, I could have assembled a reasonably sophisticated profile of your interests and behavior,” he wrote.

    For the full article, visit the PBS News Hour website.

    Published in: PBS News Hour

  • Cow Clicker’ Developer: Facebook's Response To Complaints Is Too Late

    March 24, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, was interviewed in the NPR, March 24, article, “‘Cow Clicker’ Developer: Facebook's Response To Complaints Is Too Late.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    NPR’s Scott Simon talks with Ian Bogost about data collected from Facebook-connected apps. In 2010, Bogost launched Cow Clicker, a parody game that inadvertently collected a lot of user information.

    For the full article, visit the NPR website.

    Published in: NPR

  • Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn On Trump, North Korea Meeting

    March 14, 2018

    Sam Nunn

    Sam Nunn, distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed in “Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn On Trump, North Korea Meeting” by WABE. The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Last week, the White House said President Trump would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The announcement came after months of tension between Trump and Kim over North Korea’s nuclear program.

    Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn has been watching North Korea’s growing nuclear capability for years. He is co chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and chaired the Armed Services Committee during his 24 years in the Senate.

    Nunn joined Denis O’Hayer on “Morning Edition” to talk about what could come from the historic meeting between the two world leaders.

    For the full audio clip, visit the WABE website.

    Published in: WABE

  • Does Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hurt Economic Growth

    March 12, 2018

    Eren Cifci

    Eren Cifci, a doctoral student in Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Economics, was quoted in the Futurity, March 12, article, “Does Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hurt Economic Growth?” The School of Economics is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    The Kyoto Protocol cut greenhouse gas emissions in nations that signed the agreement, but also may have slowed economic growth, new research suggests. Political wrangling over international agreements to curb climate change tends to be divisive. Just look at the reactions to the recent decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement… Their findings? “The Kyoto Protocol was successful in terms of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, but has also had economic impacts, slowing down per capita GDP growth,” says Eren Cifci, a master’s student in Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Economics.

    For the full article, visit the Futurity website.

    Published in: The Futurity

  • How Science Fiction Films Like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Embrace Femininity

    March 9, 2018

    Lisa Yaszek, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communications (Photo by Georgia Tech)

    Lisa Yaszek, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in The Washington Post, March 9, article, “How Science Fiction Films Like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Embrace Femininity.” The School of Literature Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    In the first act of “Annihilation,” Natalie Portman’s character, a biologist and Army veteran named Lena, joins a crew planning to venture into Area X, a mysterious stretch of land surrounded by a translucent rainbow entity called the Shimmer. Multiple investigative teams have entered the Shimmer before, only to never be heard from again. So who are these undeterred explorers? Anya (Gina Rodriguez), a paramedic; Josie (Tessa Thompson), a physicist; Cass (Tuva Novotny), an anthropologist; and Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a psychologist… Like the Dora Milaje of “Black Panther” or time-traveling Meg Murry of “A Wrinkle in Time,” the scientists are shaped by their professions and gender. These recently released films dispute a mainstream perception of science fiction as a masculine genre, using feminine costumes and environments to build the strong-willed characters. Nothing will stop these women from overcoming the perilous obstacles ahead of them. “They stand up in the face of danger and shake their fists and say, ‘You won’t beat us,’ ” said Lisa Yaszek, a professor of science fiction studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Science fiction has been shaped by women since its inception: English novelist Mary Shelley, who first published “Frankenstein” nearly 200 years ago, is widely credited as its founder. Though still dominated by men when it hopped across the pond in the early 20th century, according to Yaszek, the genre “was never just about boys and their toys.” She estimated that from the 1920s to the 1970s, women made up about 15 percent of those working in the genre — or as much as 30 percent, if you include looser forms like fantasy.
     

    For the full article, visit The Washington Post website.

    Published in: The Washington Post

  • Hip-Hop Is Our Vibranium

    March 8, 2018

    Joycelyn Wilson

    Joycelyn Wilson, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote The Bitter Southerner, March 8 article, “Hip-Hop Is Our Vibranium.” The School of Literature Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Leading up to the soundtrack’s release, “Legend Has It” — produced by the interracial rap duo Run The Jewels — was licensed as the sonic backdrop for the “Black Panther” movie trailer.  The song and trailer teased us during the 2017 NBA Finals, introducing RTJ to audiences who knew nothing about them — like the students at Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy, who burst into a dance set after learning they’d get a chance to see the Marvel movie. The song is recognized for Killer Mike and El-P’s futuristic riffs and exhortations to “step into the spotlight.”

    “Legend Has It” also provides the soundtrack for the “Black Panther” Lexus commercial, where King T’Challa, his sister Shuri, and members of the Dora Milaje drive the LS 500 F Sport to secure some stolen vibranium.

    All of this multilinear storytelling and rap-music marketing is layered with hip-hop’s African roots, its Cali sensibilities, and its Southern aesthetics. Together, they contribute to the ongoing box office success of the film, which is fast approach $1 billion in global ticket sales.

    The music of “Black Panther” makes clear that hip-hop itself is the vibranium of the time.

    For the full article, visit The Bitter Southerner website.

    Published in: The Bitter Southerner

  • Sci Fi Flops

    March 6, 2018

    Lisa Yaszek, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communications (Photo by Georgia Tech)

    Lisa Yaszek, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, was interviewed in the Geeks and Beats, March 6, podcast, “Sci-Fi Flops.” The School of Literature Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    Why is it “smart” science fiction bombs at the box office but candy floss like Guardians of the Galaxy brings in the big bucks? Insight from Georgia Tech Professor of Science Fiction Studies Lisa Yaszek.

    To listen to the full radio segment, visit the Geeks and Beats website.

    Published in: Geeks and Beats

  • We Don’t Need Robots That Resemble Humans

    March 1, 2018

    Ian Bogost

    Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the Medium, March 1, article, “We Don’t Need Robots That Resemble Humans.” The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

    Excerpt:

    It’s human nature to perceive robots as having human features and exhibiting human behavior. Anthropomorphic inclinations are in our DNA, and engineers can’t override this tendency. What roboticists can do is help us better cope with cognitive biases and better address social ones. To accomplish these goals, they should embrace a postmodern aesthetic. Bots should be designed like Deadpool — the graphic novel–adapted cinematic antihero who constantly breaks the fourth wall by reminding the movie audience that he knows he’s a superhero character in a superhero movie… Let’s consider popular digital assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana. Ian Bogost, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts distinguished chair in media studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, recently argued in the Atlantic that their design is the source of #genderfails: The bots’ very names ring gendered bells; the bots perform service-based labor that has been historically associated with stereotypes of women’s work and women’s emotional labor; and the bots can only ignore or disengage from sexist language, a far cry from real feminist ideals. Bogost concludes: “Maybe the best way to represent women as technological apparatuses is to avoid doing so in the first place.” Agreed!

    For the full article, visit the Medium website.

     

     

    Published in: The Medium

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