Emotional Biosensing: Exploring Critical Alternatives

Emotional biosensing is rising in daily life: Data and categories claim to know how people feel and suggest what they should do about it, while CSCW explores new biosensing possibilities. Prevalent approaches to emotional biosensing are too limited, focusing on the individual, optimization, and normative categorization. Conceptual shifts can help explore alternatives: toward materiality, from representation toward performativity, inter-action to intra-action, shifting biopolitics, and shifting affect/desire. We contribute (1) synthesizing wide-ranging conceptual lenses, providing analysis connecting them to emotional biosensing design, (2) analyzing selected design exemplars to apply these lenses to design research, and (3) offering our own recommendations for designers and design researchers. In particular we suggest humility in knowledge claims with emotional biosensing, prioritizing care and affirmation over self- improvement, and exploring alternative desires. We call for critically questioning and generatively re- imagining the role of data in configuring sensing, feeling, ‘the good life,’ and everyday experience

Sustainable Publishing for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

This is a link to a webinar recording of a Charleston Conference webinar titled Sustainable Publishing for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, sponsored by University of Michigan Press and hosted by the Charleston Conference. It was originally broadcast on the internet on October 2, 2019. ==== From the Charleston Conference website: Session Description: Scholarly authors are increasingly using digital tools. They want to produce enhanced ebooks and interactive scholarly works, but these tend not to fit into existing publisher and librarian workflows. Fulcrum is a platform developed at the University of Michigan which supports authors who want to push the boundaries of the book. The University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) includes an increasing number of enhanced titles and takes full advantage of the rich features on the Fulcrum platform. Thanks to the support of purchasing libraries, UMP EBC is able to sustain the publication of new forms of scholarship, including open access titles, and sustain the open source, community-based scholarly infrastructure. In this webinar attendees will learn about this new form of scholarship, including how it is being sustained by the community via UMP EBC and Fulcrum, and walk away inspired to sustain this burgeoning community. Presenters: Lanell White, Director of Sales, Marketing, and Outreach (Michigan Publishing) Sara Cohen, Editor for American Studies, University of Michigan Press Andrée J. Rathemacher, Head, Acquisitions, University of Rhode Island (Librarian) Professor Anne Ruggles Gere, editor of Developing Writers in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study Professors Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, Editors, #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation Doctoral Candidate and Rackham Public Engagement Fellow, Matthew Naglak, Researcher, A Mid-Republican House From Gabii ==== Included as supplemental files are: PDF printout of Charleston Conference website page advertising the webinar PDF printout of a 9/26/2019 email to the Charleston Library Conference mailing list advertising the webinar PDF printout of a 9/26/2019 email to the LYROFFERS mailing list advertising the webinar Andrée Rathemacher\u27s webinar speaking notes in PDF format Included as supplemental files (suppressed from public view) are: Webinar video recording in MP4 format Webinar video recording in WMV format Slides for webinar presentation in PDF format Slides with notes for webinar presentation in PDF format Results of attendee polls taken during webinar in PDF format Andrée Rathemacher\u27s webinar planning notes in PDF format Approximately 75 people attended the webinar; approximately 150 registered and received a link to the recording

The ‘General Library,’ or, Media Piracy as Minority Access, Survival, and Relation

The global phenomenon of media piracy, in which millions of fans participate daily and routinely, is usually investigated through the lenses of copyright infringement, financial impacts to media industries, and how Global South fans access Global North content. This lecture will focus on fans and pirates in the U.S. who are marginalized because of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, class, and/or disability, and how they regard media piracy as a practice of information and cultural access that enables their familial and community relations as well as their very survival. While scholars such as Lawrence Lessig have defended pirate and remix practices as useful for allowing presumptively white, middle-class youth to learn important technical and creative skills, other theorists, such as Kavita Philip, have claimed that piracy must be valued beyond its utilitarian value to already-technologically- and culturally-privileged users. Drawing on my interviews with a number of Black, brown, Asian, queer, poor, and disabled pirates, I argue the “paywalling” of media contributes to large-scale structures of poverty and deprivation. I show that, through piracy, U.S. minorities insist on their rights to participate on equal footing in cultural scenes and to derive the maximum personal and collective benefits from those scenes regardless of their social statuses

"Playing Harry Potter: Essays and interviews on fandom and performance," edited by Lisa S. Brenner

Lisa S. Brenner, editor. Playing Harry Potter: Essays and interviews on fandom and performance. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015, paperback, $29.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-7864-9657-0; e-book$14.43 (5374 KB) ISBN 978-1-4766-2136-4, ASIN B012E9G0R6

Relationshipping nations: Philippines/US fan art and fan fiction

Three fan productions are analyzed that delve into the question of what the Philippines and the United States have meant to one another, what the nature of their multifaceted involvement has been for more than a century, what Filipinos feel about the United States of America, and what Americans feel about the Philippines. Fan art and fan fiction are often laden with affect because it is the fact that fan creators are so affected by their favorite media texts that leads them to create fan works in the first place, and that makes their fellow fans, who understand the affects that inspire them, appreciate their works so deeply. Fan productions about the Philippines/United States are similarly suffused with feelings—the feelings that two nations and two peoples have for one another, which are difficult to define, articulate, and express for Filipinos, Americans, and Filipino Americans

Playing Harry Potter: Essays and interviews on fandom and performance, edited by Lisa S. Brenner

Lisa S. Brenner, editor. Playing Harry Potter: Essays and interviews on fandom and performance. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015, paperback, $29.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-7864-9657-0; e-book$14.43 (5374 KB) ISBN 978-1-4766-2136-4, ASIN B012E9G0R6

Rogue Archives : Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

"The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists - fans, pirates, hackers - have become practitioners of cultural preservation on the Internet. These nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural memory, building freely accessible online archivers of whatever content they consider suitable for digital preservation. In Rogue Archive, Abigail De Kosnik examines the practice of archiving in the transition from print to digital media, looking in particular at Internet fan fiction archives." -- Dust jacket

What is global theater? or, What does new media studies have to do with performance studies?

This piece summarizes some key historical points of connection between new media studies and performance studies, beginning with Marshall McLuhan's concept of telecommunications networks as constitutive of a global theater. In combination with Kurt Lancaster's and Francesca Coppa's theories of fan works as performances, the global theater model can yield new insights into the nature and purpose of Internet fan fiction and fan fiction archives