Category: #BUDSC16
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The Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania: Using Facebook to Document a Community
Jennie Levine Knies (Penn State Wilkes-Barre) and Melissa R. Meade (Temple University) In 2013, Temple University PhD candidate Melissa R. Meade started a Facebook page for the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, to share and curate material relevant to her community-based ethnographic dissertation project. The page has evolved into a place in which community…
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Reproducing and Disrupting Phallogocentrism in Computer Coding Languages
Sandra Nelson (University of Pittsburgh) Stemming from the assumption that a computer program’s entire meaning is its function, the coding language used to compose it typically regarded as axiomatic and arhetorical. This approach is potentially problematic because it fails to address the ideological elements that are implicitly conveyed and reproduced through these languages. In this…