Gary Kafer

Cover images for Anna Munster's book "DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning" and Sarah Murray's "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI".

On Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us!

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JORB! Open-rank professor position in Media Industries at UMich

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The cover for the upcoming volume "The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us"

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model.

This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.

Really proud to see that the special dossier "Perspectives on Global Surveillance" which I edited for JUMP CUT is now online! It features a timely selection of texts from a wonderful range of scholars.

Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...

'AI is in its empire era' JD Vance's AI saber-rattling, DOGE's gutting of the government, and Silicon Valley's thirst for growth show how AI has become a tool for consolidating power.

AI has entered its empire era.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-in-i...

Thrilled to see my article on speculative media-making practices using generative AI appear in the latest issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...

Archives of the Surveilled Arthur Huff Fauset’s elision from literary history was not merely a scholarly oversight but a reality constructed in advance by powerful forces.

Really great read about the contradictions of state archives of surveillance.

Calling all grad students in SCMS! Please consider submitting to the Media, Science, Technology SIG Grad Essay award. I’ll be on the judging panel. Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks Desiree :)

For my inaugural post on this platform, I'm excited to share my recent publication in Cultural Studies on the use of weather data in predictive analytics, including predictive policing and social media sentiment analysis. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

My new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment is now out @ucpress.bsky.social. Let me tell you a bit about what's in it.

My Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is evolving and expanding rapidly...
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