This page contains descriptions of and links to the writing and research I have done as a student in the MA program in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Both Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger witnessed the rise of technology and the role it plays in day to day life. While they approach the topic from different angles, both are keenly aware of the generative capacities of technology and the potential for an oppressive state apparatus should these capacities become co-opted. This paper explores the intersection of these thinkers ideas on technology and the how they view it in both generative and oppressive lights.
“The perceptible object may really exist, even when it is not being perceived, but if we are to understand what it is for it to be a perceptible object, we must recognize it as having a potentiality the actualizing of which occurs in the perspective faculty of a perceiver who is actually perceiving it.” Aristotle
Resource and job sites like idealist.org, the largest provider of information on non profit jobs and resources on the web, provide a tremendous service to those who use them. However there are many aspects of its design that exhibit biases to users who may be new to the non profit field, or live outside of densely populated areas. To address this, this paper looks at the discussion of values and biases in design and how to tackle such design challenges with a goal of providing visibility of resources to the widest audience possible.
Research on the Boston based social networking site, Neighbors for Neighbors Inc.
Research explores ways Neighbors for Neighbors can increase participation in low member nieghborhood networks, as well as improve navigation and categorization issues. Written over four blog posts.
- Do community based social networks improve visibility of resources and civic engagement?
- Access is only the beginning
- Party Starter
- Refining the social and technical design of NfN
