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Digital Culture + Media Initiative
@dcmiatpsu.bsky.social
Initiative of Penn State's Department of English, directed by Matt Tierney, supporting critical, speculative, and historical scholarship on cultures and media of computerized society. https://dcmi.la.psu.edu
Our first in-person lecture of the year is Melissa Charenko, “Proxy Data: A History of the Scientific Stand-in.”

@melissacharenko.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at U Penn, and will speak to us at 3pm on 11/19 in the Grucci Room.

Come one, come all. We couldn't be more excited!
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you're in Durham for @sns2025.bsky.social at the end of the month, come by, say hi, bright and early.

Friday @ 8:30am, with Ben Mangrum and Justin Mitchell:
May 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Our third and final talk of this year's series is next week! In “Finance by Other Means? The Ambiguous Moral Economies of the Subscription Business Model," Aaron Shapiro (@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social) asks how we might "reclaim subscriptionization for post-capitalist transformation."

Join us!
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Data Work as Care Work" — we couldn't be more excited for our upcoming visit from Kalindi Vora of Yale.

On April 10 at 3:30 in the Grucci Room, @kalindivora.bsky.social urges us to "challenge ongoing coloniality in tech design in the face of growing datafication."
April 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Cannot wait: on 4.3, the year's first DCMI talk is Omedi Ochieng, brilliant author of INTELLECTUAL IMAGINATION and GROUNDWORK FOR THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE!

(Up next: Kalindi Vora on 4.10 + Aaron Shapiro on 4.17!)

@omediochieng.bsky.social
@kalindivora.bsky.social
@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Special session of #MLA25 #MLA2025, next Friday at 3:30:

"Sentimental Politics after Doomerism," with Zachary Loeb, Matt Tierney, Melanie Abeygunawardana, and Sheila Liming (@seeshespeak.bsky.social).

Come say hi.
January 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So excited to announce our spring speakers!

April 3: Omedi Ochieng, Colorado (@omediochieng.bsky.social)
April 10: Kalindi Vora, Yale
(@kalindivora.bsky.social)
April 17: Aaron Shapiro, UNC
(@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social)

Talks are in-person in the Grucci Room, Burrowes 102, at 3:30pm. Join us!
December 2, 2024 at 5:58 PM