local

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 5August 27, 2020<August 27, 2020

Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic

by Scott Rodgers

Scott Rodgers explores the novelties and continuities of emergent, very local uses of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what they indicate about our deepening interdependencies with platforms.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 18, 2018<June 28, 2018

Shiny Diversions

by Myalisa Miroballi

In this essay, Myalisa Miroballi, a student at Indiana University, discusses the ways in which screen culture pervades the streets of Hong Kong and Shanghai in ways that constitute the cities as aspirational global consumer hubs.