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
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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
Public Roundtable: Identities Online with Leigh Gilmore, Julie Rak & Sidonie Smith
The first of Ego-Media’s September 2015 public roundtable panels saw three fascinating papers on the theme of online identity from members of the project’s international network, encompassing online activism, networked gaming and the fate of humanities scholarship in the digital era. ‘Social Media as/and Witness: The Case of Black Lives Matter’ Leigh
Tags: activism, automedia, black lives matter, posthumanities, research, social media, video, videogames, witness