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7:56 am on April 12, 2019 · society (2), ttw (2)

WEBCAST FRI/SAT: Theorizing the Web 2019 #TtW19

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livestreamsOn Friday/ Saturday April 12-13 2019 the Internet Society Livestream Channels will webcast all 3 tracks of the 2019 Theorizing the Web conference live from the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens NY. Theorizing the Web is an inter- and non-disciplinary annual conference that brings together scholars, journalists, artists, activists, and technology practitioners to think conceptually and critically about the interrelationships between the Web and society.

VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://isoc.live/ttw19/

PROGRAM: https://theorizingtheweb.org/ny/ny2019/program-9/

TWITTER: #TtW19 https://bit.ly/ttw19tweets

6:23 am on December 23, 2012 · compsoc (4), Douglas Rushkoff (7), evan korth (5), NYU (24), society (2)

VIDEO: Douglas Rushkoff – Computers for Humans #compsoc #humanity

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DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF talk “Computers for Humans” in the Computers & Society Speaker Series, sponsored by ISOC-N,Y at the Courant Institute NYC on Nov 27 2012.

Users do not know how to program their computers, nor do they care. They spend much more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another, instead. And this is a potentially grave mistake. Just as the invention of text utterly transformed human society, disconnecting us from much of what we held sacred, our migration to the digital realm will also require a new template for
maintaining our humanity. In this talk, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff — author of Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and the upcoming Present Shock, shares the biases of digital media, and what that means for how we should use and make them.

Additional Camera: Brittany Vanbibber