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Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies | Department of Humanities | Michigan Technological University
Excited to have this piece on disability, media, and technology published in PuntoOrg International Journal https://www.puntoorginternationaljournal.org/index.php/PIJ/article/view/188 Abstract: This paper analyzes the da Vinci surgical system as a media technology situated intrinsically, while not expressively, as an assistive media technology, marketed and designed with an “ideology of ability” (Siebers, 2008) at its core. From trademarks to…
As part of the Institute of Policy, Ethics, and Culture at Michigan Technological University, I am starting a research group called Human Machine Culture focused on the historical and developing dynamics between humans and machines: the ways humans and communicative machines sense and make sense of the world together, and the cultural impacts of those…
Karu White, Osaka University will be presenting, “The Feral Feline in 3D: Experimenting with Virtual Multimodal Captures of the More-than-Human; Tahila Mintz, OJI:SDA’ Sustainable Indigenous Futures and Andrea Stevenson Won, Cornell University, will be presenting “Ancestral Gratitude Bridge: Challenging the pull of immersion in tools and new media for Indigenous culture and wellness” as part…
At Uncommon Senses IV (May 3rd – 6th, 2023), I will present research on the da Vinci Surgical System, a surgical robotic assistant in wide use today, using Intuitive Surgical’s trademarked phrase, “taking surgery beyond the limits of the human hand™, as an invitation to tell a two-part story about the way engineers designed and…
Jason E Archer 