In the final paper from our Voices and Ethics panel, Professor Craig Howes (Centre for Biographical Research, University of Hawai’i) argues that digital technologies are bringing into being new biographical forms that demand critical attention – from Facebook ‘Year in Review’ slideshows to military drone operators’ ‘kill lists.’
Public Roundtable: Voices and Ethics Part Three with Craig Howes
Tags: craig howes, data, drones, necrobiography, politics, simulation, social media, talks, video
Public Roundtable: Voices and Ethics Part One with Gillian Whitlock
In the first paper from our September 2015 Voices and Ethics panel Gillian Whitlock (ARC Professorial Research Fellow, University of Queensland) discusses her research on 21st century testimony, addressing texts produced by migrants and asylum seekers detained in Australia’s Nauru processing centre.
Tags: biography, digitization, migration, politics, talks, testimony, video
The Politics of Digital Life
In September 2015 King’s College London hosted a meeting of Ego-Media’s international network, bringing together academics from around the world who share our interest in how digital media are reshaping understandings of identity and modes of representing the self. The meeting was punctuated by a series of thematic discussions
Tags: agency, archives, data, identity, museums, politics, prosthetics, surveillance