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My walk through East Orange
On the walk that I took through East Orange, which is my neighborhood, The observations that I had were pretty eye-opening. I was noticing the amount of trees there are in my neighborhood, some green and some in the fall colors like red and yellow. I saw a lot of cars on the street and […]
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CSI Skill Tree video game series: Waking Mars
CSI Skill Tree is a new series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In our second episode, we discuss Waking Mars (2012), a game about space exploration, gardening, and ecosystems developed and published by Tiger […]
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Introducing CSI Skill Tree, a series on video games, worldbuilding, and the future
CSI Skill Tree is a new series from the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In our first episode, we discuss Subsurface Circular (2017), an […]
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HASTAC on Summer Hiatus
We at HASTAC want to thank you sincerely for all your incredible scholarship and work this academic year-even among a world heath pandemic. The HASTAC team will be on hiatus for the summer months. While on hiatus, we plan to cover the essential work required to support the community. Site functionality and user support will […]
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The Announcement I Wish I Would Hear from a College President
Here is the brave announcement I wish I would read in the New York Times or the Chronicle of Higher Education: a college or university president fearlessly announcing that . . . no decision has yet been made. A few presidents have gone in this direction. Some, appallingly, have not. I offer this as a fictitious […]
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Beauty Redefined: How Beautubers and Influencers Changed the Industry
Although modern advertising techniques have existed for the past century, the creation and prevalence of the Internet and social media has created a new form of advertising and marketing which has never been seen before. Through the Internet and social media, there is no area in the average person’s life which is not touched by […]
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Technology and the Sexualization of Young Women : Lesson Plan
Technology and the Sexualization of Young Women Lesson Plan Table of Contents OVERVIEW FRAMING ACTIVITY POWERPOINT SLIDES CLASS DEBATE HANDOUT 1. Overview Objective: This lesson plan is intended to help students better understand how social media sexualizes young girls and women in ways that have long-standing and detrimental impacts on society. While it is intended […]
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Introduction Post
My name is Meagan Speich, and I am a junior at Wesleyan College. I grew up in Southern Maine, but moved to Georgia when I was thirteen. Going to school in Georgia was a lot different than going to school in Maine, especially since I was put in advanced math classes, my worst subject, and […]
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Performance Review: “Raison d’être, An Evening with Pirandello”
In the Pirandello Society of America’s recent edition of the PSA journal, Jana O’Keefe Bazzoni talks to Jennifer Jewell and Patrick Mulryan about their recent collaboration on Raison d’être: An Evening with Pirandello. Jewell (actor and producer) and Mulryan (director and adaptor) tell PSA‘s O’Keefe Bazzoni about their experimental approach to Pirandello, as their 2018 theatre piece featured new translations and […]
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Making Apollo Guidance Computer Code-Based Erasure Poetry
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) code facilitated the Moon landing, a feat whose fiftieth anniversary we celebrate this month. As the Moon landing represents the achievement of what that code enabled, my new, co-authored book Moonbit (punctum books, 2019) seeks to highlight what that code said along the way. Moonbit celebrates the way in which […]