Culture is a keyword among keywords for Raymond Williams, who contributed to the founding of cultural studies in the 1960s and 1970s. It is among the most common ways to talk about how we talk. In the essay below, one of Williams’ most careful readers, Ted Striphas, offers a sensitive update to Williams and a wide-ranging intellectual […]
Keyword: Algorithm
The algorithm, Tarleton Gillespie argues in this terrific essay, stands as a complex administrator of modern life. In it Gillespie demystifies the many uses of the recent keyword algorithm, on loan from Arabic. It is at once a trick of the trade for software programmers, a synecdoche standing in for entire informational systems and their […]
Keyword: Participation
Christopher Kelty’s broad-minded and brilliant essay on participation is a welcomed participant in the Digital Keywords volume. It both intellectual broadens as well as analytically tightens the contemporary understanding of that classic concept and near constant discussion of it online. Marshaling together insights ranging from Parmenides to Polanyi, he offers insights such as how participation […]
Keyword: Hacker
In this definitive essay, Gabriella Coleman critiques the stereotype of a hacker as a white male libertarian. In its place, and through a rich history of its varied sources and expressions, she uncovers an underlying hacker commitment to what she calls “craft autonomy,” or the freedom to do technical work that motivates contemporary classes of […]
Spanish Translation- Sarah Banet-Weiser’s : Misogamia Popular, El Espiritu de la Epoca
Últimamente todos están hablando del feminismo. Se ha vuelto el sujeto de conversaciones a tal nivel que Byonce, en su numero para los VMA de 2014, presento la palabra “Feminism” escrita en luces detrás de ella. Después la periodista Jessica Valenti escribiendo de Byonce en el periódico El Gurdian dijo, “El nuevo zeitgeist es sin […]