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androphilia: Life With The Hijab By Sadaf Syed ① University of...

jessehirsh — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:06:19 -0500

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androphilia:

Life With The Hijab By Sadaf Syed

① University of Michigan’s DJ Hadeel Al-Hadidi created and broadcasts her own hour-long radio program.
② Scholars teach that Islam encourages sports and physical activity for all, wrote Sayed. The prophet Muhammad is said to have invited his wife Aisha to a foot race.
③ Nadia Afghani, left, and Nadia Chohan make up Hijabi Deafness, a Muslim punk rock/hip-hop band.
④ Michelle Yim, a network engineer, skis, swims, body surfs, rides motorcycles – all while wearing the hijab.
⑤ Atlanta-based Mariem “Punchenella” Brakache (5-5, 1KO) is a former IBA Junior Middleweight Champion, boxing coach and renowned trainer.
⑥ A ballerina and tap dancer from Texas, Hiba Awad is anxious to prove “how versatile and unique a Muslim woman can be.”
⑦ Nousheen Yousuf said the practice of tae kwon do “taught me to treat daily prayers as a real meditation, where the focus is on my relationship with God.”
⑧ Nosheen Cassim, a part-time makeup artist and full-time mother of two, was born and raised in Illinois, but has been threatened by strangers who told her to “go back to where she came from.”
⑨ No matter how different they may look from other beachgoers, Sama Wareh, left, and Aurelia Khatib believe in doing what they love, including surfing.
⑩ Asma Azim, a step-grandmother from Pakistan, has been a manager of mechanics and a truck driver for more than a dozen years. She said her male contemporaries treat her with respect – especially when they discover she can repair her own engine.

Luke was on CBC's Metro Morning again today...

jessehirsh — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:08:41 -0500

Luke was on CBC's Metro Morning again today...:

Matt Galloway spoke with Luke Simcoe. He is a digital journalist with Metro News. But first we heard from Detective Bangild. He says this is the first time he has investigated harassment by social media, but says it won’t be the last.

How we used a drone to cover drought

jessehirsh — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:40:50 -0400

dronejournalism:

By Matthew Waite

On Monday, we published our first stories using a small unmanned aerial vehicle to report on a record drought happening here in Nebraska. Here’s how we did it.

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Please Revise...: Theorizing the Digitopia

jessehirsh — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:46:05 -0400

Please Revise...: Theorizing the Digitopia:

pleaserevise:

The fields of academic and descriptive futurism are perhaps less accessible than many would imagine.

The best examples of the genre read like Downton Abbey fanfiction to a toddler, weaving volatile scientific presumption, nuanced social theory, and broad political renegotiations…

Piton Data Lab: Sparkwise: A Data Storytelling Tool for Change-Makers

jessehirsh — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:59:11 -0400

Piton Data Lab: Sparkwise: A Data Storytelling Tool for Change-Makers:

datalab:

Sparkwise is a free, open source web-based tool, aimed at the non-profit sector, for creating live data-widget-filled dashboards.

Their tagline: “Sparkwise gives meaning to your data and momentum to your goals.”

You can use add widgets that visualize data — your own data, data from a social…

Social Media Phishing

jessehirsh — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:01:43 -0400

maxthewestie:

Some how, my email is being thrown lures of awful subjects headers in the hope I click on one and provide my log in credentials to someone I do not know. After the LinkedIn leak, I am getting more and more of these and now from “Foursquare” but there is no email address to forward such events for either real site.

Too bad social media is all about the monitization of its users PII but when it comes to protecting this asset, they are sorry for the cliche, “Asleep at the Security Switch”.

quirksintech: This is a terrific graphic that breaks down how...

jessehirsh — Sat, 26 May 2012 19:39:08 -0400

quirksintech:

This is a terrific graphic that breaks down how Google collected data from wi-fi networks with Streetview vehicles

Robocall Blogger unfuckwithable Anticipates 'A Spiro Agnew Moment'

jessehirsh — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:29:36 -0500

Robocall Blogger unfuckwithable Anticipates 'A Spiro Agnew Moment':

unfuckwithable:

So this happened. Thank God they used my blog photo and not one of me drunk and vomiting profusely on the streets of Montreal or Los Angeles or something.

dropouthangoutspaceout: These flying robots play the James Bond...

jessehirsh — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:24:34 -0500

dropouthangoutspaceout:

These flying robots play the James Bond Theme. (via @stillgrey)

Vic Toews, meet Fake Ann Cavoukian - Macleans.ca

jessehirsh — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:37:53 -0500

Vic Toews, meet Fake Ann Cavoukian - Macleans.ca:

lukesimcoe:

My latest piece for Maclean’s. Enjoy!

Lessons from Woody Harrelson’s ‘epic fail’ on Reddit - Macleans.ca

jessehirsh — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:44:53 -0500

Lessons from Woody Harrelson’s ‘epic fail’ on Reddit - Macleans.ca:

lukesimcoe:

So, I’m blogging sporadically for Macleans about internet culture. I’d appreciate it if you could help me turn the comment board into a wretched hive of trolling and flamewars.

aljazeera: Click on the map to follow events province-by...

jessehirsh — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:26:20 -0500

aljazeera:

Click on the map to follow events province-by province and to learn more about Syria’s uprising.

"Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high..."

jessehirsh — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:08:15 -0500

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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman.

Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn’t allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow – “don’t hate me for my success, don’t hate me for my power”. She doesn’t pretend to the press that she thinks she is not talented, or suggest that she happened to make high-level art for decades unconsciously, or by accident, or in her sleep.

She doesn’t parade her vulnerabilities; she does not play the victim. She is not continually letting us in to the details of some battle with bulimia or weight problems or health problems or drug abuse, or the way her heart always seems to get broken (fill in likeable talented/wealthy/successful actress, musician, etc here). Nor does she complain about how hard it is to juggle work and family, or let us into photo shoots where we see the banal and recognizable rituals of grocery shopping or ferrying kids, so that we can know reassuringly that she is JUST LIKE US (fill in likeable female politician/news anchor here).

If she did engage in those ritual forms of self-abnegation that influential women are encouraged to spin to soft pedal their power in our media culture, we would “like her more”. But she would be far less important – both as an artist, and to the collective female psyche.

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- Naomi Wolf on the Madonna hate. (via reeraw)

dragnetmag: Did you ever wonder what you looked like while you...

jessehirsh — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:03:00 -0500

dragnetmag:

Did you ever wonder what you looked like while you were having an amazing time? Well, if you were at the Dragnet Issue Four launch, you’re in luck. Here are all of the photos from that night, enjoy!!

STATE INTERVENTION, VIDEOGAMES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: A CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

jessehirsh — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:28:23 -0500

STATE INTERVENTION, VIDEOGAMES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: A CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS:

dropouthangoutspaceout:

This thesis illustrates, using political economy, the ways in which governments increasingly play a large role in developing, or encouraging the development of, videogames, and how these games then circulate and interact as political texts in the public sphere. This is achieved in four parts: two on history and theory, and two case studies. The theoretical chapters have two main foci: the first is by finding value in videogames as meaningful cultural artifacts that play a role in the ongoing maintenance of the state and civil society. This is achieved through a literature review and discussion of the contemporary theoretical parameters of the public sphere, which draws heavily on the work of Habermas (1991), Warner (2002) and Drache (2008). In the second chapter this discussion is located inside the field of game studies, drawing heavily on the work of Bogost (2007), whose theoretical frameworks about the persuasive potential of videogames is investigated through their unique status as computational objects. The two second chapters each conduct a political economy through commodification, spatialization and structuration (Mosco, 2009) on the development of videogames who have a direct link with state intervention: The United States Army recruitment videogame America’s Army (which was funded entirely by the Pentagon) and the Toronto developed iOS videogame Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, which was the recipient of a small-scale cultural industry grant from the provincially owned Ontario Media Development Corporation.

So you can read this now, if you so desire. I do not wish to know about typos of any sort. Please keep those to yourself. Otherwise, discuss away! I would love to hear your thoughts, so please shoot me an electronic mail at daniel[dot]joseph[at]ryerson[dot]ca

Anyways, this is an MA thesis so it has to have a considerable amount of literature review and whatnot, but the most interesting stuff, at least to most scholars of political economy or videogames, will most likely be the investigation of America’s Army as a historical moment that marks a distinct reterritorialization of the medium of videogames by the state after the videogame industry’s youth in the heady days of neo-liberalism. [deep breath]

The second case study (which consists of a long interview with Superbrothers’ Craig Adams) should be of interest to those who make or study indie videogames, as well as the Canadian videogame industry as a whole. It is an early foray into the political economy of these small scale developers and their intimate relations with the state, which is an ongoing concern of mine especially in relation to Toronto’s young videogame development community.

If you are interested in citizenship and the public sphere, I suppose there is a whole bunch of that stuff in there too. Ya know. Democracy.

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dropouthangoutspaceout: Where at the Academy of the Impossible...

jessehirsh — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:30:40 -0500

dropouthangoutspaceout:

Where at the Academy of the Impossible we talk about Minecraft, style, practice, play and why this is so cool.

Please Revise...: 2011: The Birth of e-Populism

jessehirsh — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:10:24 -0500

Please Revise...: 2011: The Birth of e-Populism:

pleaserevise:

If you run in circles anything like mine, you may have noticed that you spent a surprising amount of time discussing the concept of openness in 2011.

Perhaps it was in the context of participation in a theorized open government, the incremental mainstreaming of open coding practices on…

lukesimcoe: I’m thrilled that today, the sites which serve as...

jessehirsh — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:56:44 -0500

lukesimcoe:

I’m thrilled that today, the sites which serve as the locus for the popular culture of the internet have all rallied against the destructive SOPA bill. No matter where you turn, sites and communities like tumblr, 4chan, Reddit — even the mostly humourous Daily What — are intervening and encouraging users to take action against the bill.

I think this could have serious, positive implications for my research. It demonstrates that the spaces of popular cultural production on the internet, and the users who participate in both the production and consumption of that culture, have a “politics” concerning the internet. It shows that all the jokes, memes, lolcats, rage comics and L33T speak that circulates on these sites can take on political and symbolic meaning and motivate users to act.

I dunno… I’m stoked.

lukesimcoe: TVO is light years ahead of any other news outlet...

jessehirsh — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:25:01 -0400

lukesimcoe:

TVO is light years ahead of any other news outlet in Canada in terms of its coverage of the techno-cultural-political nexus. They picked up Search Engine after the Mothercorp axed it, and The Agenda consistently gets guests who actually know what they’re talking about.

So, in case you missed it the other night, here’s The Agenda’s discussion about Anonymous and hacktivism.

Of particular note is Joseph Menn’s GIGANTIC glass of water.

Attack of the Hacktivists (by AgendaStevePaikin)

Photo

jessehirsh — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:34:30 -0400