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no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 5June 30, 2020

Long Way Home

By Lena Stevens

Ed. note: This video essay is part of a special Student Voices section devoted to documenting student responses and reflections to the COVID-19 crisis, which has had such an unprecedented effect on student lives. To see the other entries, click … Read More

From the Archive, no. 1, vol. 4February 23, 2019

Magical Marinades and Archival Puzzles: An Interview with Jennifer Wild

By Jennifer Wild & Matt Hauske

For both seasoned and novice historians, the experience of entering an archive for the first time can be incredibly overwhelming. Too much material to take in, time constrictions, obscure institutional protocols, and bewildering surprises of all kinds conspire against the …

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017

Ruins, Representation, and the Right to the City

By Spencer Cunningham

Contemporary urban environments offer a wealth of rich social and cultural narratives for analysis. Cities lend themselves to media practices of photography and film, providing aesthetic representations of contemporary urban life. The city is not only a geographic place, it …

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017

Infrastructural Inequalities and Digital Divides

By Kortnee Tilson

This paper aims to explore digital media infrastructures and their relationship to uneven distributions of power and geopolitical inequality. Much of the hope for the digital age was rooted in the idea of an interconnected “global village,”¹Marshall McLuhan …

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017

“Familiar Strangers” in the Age of Urban Computing

By Kendra Thompson

Enabled by mobile phones and accessible internet connection, urban computing has brought the ambience of human connection and interaction to the foreground. Mark Shepard suggests that architecture used to play the most vital role in shaping the urban landscape, but …