Nathan Rambukkana
Biographic Data
| ID | 162504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Rambukkana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rambukkana |
| SIGNATURE | RAMBUKKANA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7696-818X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What HMC Teaches Us About Authenticity
This paper delves into what the application of authenticity to Human-Machine Communication (HMC) can teach us about authenticity and us as HMC researchers and as a com- munity. Inspired by the 2023 pre-conference “HMC: Authenticity in communicating with machines,” two central questions guide the discussion: How does HMC contribute to our understanding of authentic communication with machines? And how can the concept of authenticity contribute to …
Platform Intimacies
Platform Intimacies
Toward an Audit of Race and Canonicity in Canadian Communication Syllabi
Background: This Research in Brief documents preliminary work toward a larger study entitled “Race and Canonicity in Canada: Communication Studies so White?” It was presented as part of a triple panel on “#CommunicationSoWhite: Canadian Style” at the 2021 annual meeting of the Canadian Communication Association. Analysis: Mobilizing this rationale earlier in the research stage ties its work to the discursive interventions in this issue. Conclusio…
The Shape of Platform Studies
The study of platforms is on the rise in communication studies, science and technology studies (STS), game studies, internet studies, and the study of human-machine communication (HMC). While originally platform studies emerged from hardware studies as an integrated attempt to study the hardware, software, code, marketing, and use of computational technologies—especially, early on, videogame consoles, but never limited to them—its use has been br…
Touching at a Distance
The last decade has seen rise in technologies that allow humans to send and receive intimate touch across long distances. Drawing together platform studies, digital intimacy studies, phenomenology of touch, and ethics of technology, we argue that these new haptic communication devices require specific ethical consideration of consent. The paper describes several technologies, including Kiiroo teledildonics, the Kissenger, the Apple Watch, and Hey…
The Politics of Gray Data
This article addresses how gray data, or research data that have their provenance in the gray area between found texts and the products of participants, is complicated by issues inherent to studying the "alt-right," especially in social justice-oriented and digital methods work. Although ethical guidelines and recommendations have not reached a consensus on issues such as requiring consent for doing work on gray data in general, fruitful contextu…
Hashtag Publics
Cyberspaces of Their Own
Uncomfortable Bridges
This article discusses the relationship between polyamory and bisexuality in the context of the formation of the Trent Polyamory Society, a university discussion and social group. Through a discussion of the rationale and goals of the group, and the diverse reactions to its formation, this article explores the parallels between coming out as polyamorous and coming out as bisexual. Both polyamorists and bi-sexuals occupy liminal subject positions …
The Politics of Gray Data
This article addresses how gray data, or research data that have their provenance in the gray area between found texts and the products of participants, is complicated by issues inherent to studying the "alt-right," especially in social justice-oriented and digital methods work. Although ethical guidelines and recommendations have not reached a consensus on issues such as requiring consent for doing work on gray data in general, fruitful contextu…
Uncomfortable Bridges
This article discusses the relationship between polyamory and bisexuality in the context of the formation of the Trent Polyamory Society, a university discussion and social group. Through a discussion of the rationale and goals of the group, and the diverse reactions to its formation, this article explores the parallels between coming out as polyamorous and coming out as bisexual. Both polyamorists and bi-sexuals occupy liminal subject positions …
Uncomfortable Bridges
This article discusses the relationship between polyamory and bisexuality in the context of the formation of the Trent Polyamory Society, a university discussion and social group. Through a discussion of the rationale and goals of the group, and the diverse reactions to its formation, this article explores the parallels between coming out as polyamorous and coming out as bisexual. Both polyamorists and bi-sexuals occupy liminal subject positions …
Cyberspaces of Their Own
Hashtag Publics
The Politics of Gray Data
This article addresses how gray data, or research data that have their provenance in the gray area between found texts and the products of participants, is complicated by issues inherent to studying the "alt-right," especially in social justice-oriented and digital methods work. Although ethical guidelines and recommendations have not reached a consensus on issues such as requiring consent for doing work on gray data in general, fruitful contextu…
The Shape of Platform Studies
The study of platforms is on the rise in communication studies, science and technology studies (STS), game studies, internet studies, and the study of human-machine communication (HMC). While originally platform studies emerged from hardware studies as an integrated attempt to study the hardware, software, code, marketing, and use of computational technologies—especially, early on, videogame consoles, but never limited to them—its use has been br…
Touching at a Distance
The last decade has seen rise in technologies that allow humans to send and receive intimate touch across long distances. Drawing together platform studies, digital intimacy studies, phenomenology of touch, and ethics of technology, we argue that these new haptic communication devices require specific ethical consideration of consent. The paper describes several technologies, including Kiiroo teledildonics, the Kissenger, the Apple Watch, and Hey…
Toward an Audit of Race and Canonicity in Canadian Communication Syllabi
Background: This Research in Brief documents preliminary work toward a larger study entitled “Race and Canonicity in Canada: Communication Studies so White?” It was presented as part of a triple panel on “#CommunicationSoWhite: Canadian Style” at the 2021 annual meeting of the Canadian Communication Association. Analysis: Mobilizing this rationale earlier in the research stage ties its work to the discursive interventions in this issue. Conclusio…
Platform Intimacies
What HMC Teaches Us About Authenticity
This paper delves into what the application of authenticity to Human-Machine Communication (HMC) can teach us about authenticity and us as HMC researchers and as a com- munity. Inspired by the 2023 pre-conference “HMC: Authenticity in communicating with machines,” two central questions guide the discussion: How does HMC contribute to our understanding of authentic communication with machines? And how can the concept of authenticity contribute to …
Platform Intimacies
Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 works)