Elizabeth Losh
Biographic Data
| ID | 275258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Losh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Losh |
| SIGNATURE | LOSH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2523-6904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
AI Literacy and the Changing Digital Political Landscape
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Host Reed Van Schenck discuss AI literacy, digital politics, and the 2024 US presidential election with authors Elizabeth Losh (William and Mary) and Rita Raley (UC Santa Barbara). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Stefania Milan
Feminist Approaches to Disinformation Studies
Disinformation, inaccurate information spread intentionally for profit, ideology, or harm is a major public issue and a significant object of study across disciplines However, much scholarship treats “disinformation” as an irritant without recognizing that it often harnesses metanarratives about inequality and identity, and disproportionately impacts marginalized communities. For example, counting how many “sockpuppet” accounts contribute to a Tw…
The Fulll Monty
Black DH is central rather than peripheral to the field of the digital humanities and challenges the origin stories of humanities computing and its blind spots about data and white supremacy. Unfortunately the same issues about diversity and inclusivity in conferences, professional organizations, and scholarly communication remain unchanged over the decades, and the burden falls on Black and Brown DHers disproportionately
Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection
Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities
Home inspection: Mina Rees and national computing infrastructure
This essay seeks to undermine the primacy of Vannevar Bush as an architect of digital culture by reimagining the story of national computing infrastructure through the framework of feminized care work. It argues that early forms of networked computational media were situated in collaborative spaces in which labor oriented around utilization, maintenance, and other forms of labor associated with domesticity were understood to be essential duties. …
Black History, State History, and Problems of Claiming Digital Middle Ground
Black History, State History, and Problems of Claiming Digital Middle Ground Elizabeth Losh (bio) A. Miller, Ken Middleton, and Amy York, Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations: Tennesseans' Search for Citizenship, Community, and Opportunity, Middle Tennessee State University James E. Walker Library, dsi.mtsu.edu/trials/ (accessed April 12, 2018). In the years since Tara McPherson asked the uncomfortable question in her essay "Why Are the Digital …
Against Mentoring
Against Mentoring Elizabeth Losh (bio) Mentoring can be a problematic term. According to Google's Ngram Viewer, the word mentoring, despite its associations with unselfish activities, seems to be roughly correlated with the rise of neoliberalism and its associated focus on human capital. Of course, I do not accept broad generalizations that the digital humanities promote a neoliberal agenda, because such conspiracy theories often marginalize alte…
Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
Tactics for feminist organizing are changing with the rise of new technologies. From the standpoint of expending digital labor, not all of these changes seem to be for the better. This essay looks at the practices of the international collective FemTechNet, a network of hundreds of scholars, learners, artists, archivists, and activists focused on feminist research on technology. FemTechNet was founded in 2012 in response to what the initial colle…
Remixing human rights: Rethinking civic expression, representation and personal security in online video
This essay examines how remixes that combine human rights footage with popular songs complicate our understanding of the relationship between media production and civic participation. We argue that editing and compositing complicates establishing the authenticity of source material and that rapid dissemination of digital files through distributed networks may compromise the agency of victims. Furthermore, we raise questions about how so-called “c…
Channelling Obama: YouTube, Flickr, and the Social Media President
His use of new communication technologies has associated Obama with youth, progress, volunteerism, and user-generated content. Unlike Republican online flops like ‘McCain Space’ and the Facebook application ‘Pork Invaders’, Obama seemed a master of social media and digital text. However, since taking office Obama’s use of YouTube and Flickr shows a more troubled relationship with the participatory culture he once championed. As this article expla…
Transnational identifications: Biliterate writers in a first-year humanities course
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Transnational identifications: Biliterate writers in a first-year humanities course
Remixing human rights: Rethinking civic expression, representation and personal security in online video
This essay examines how remixes that combine human rights footage with popular songs complicate our understanding of the relationship between media production and civic participation. We argue that editing and compositing complicates establishing the authenticity of source material and that rapid dissemination of digital files through distributed networks may compromise the agency of victims. Furthermore, we raise questions about how so-called “c…
Channelling Obama: YouTube, Flickr, and the Social Media President
His use of new communication technologies has associated Obama with youth, progress, volunteerism, and user-generated content. Unlike Republican online flops like ‘McCain Space’ and the Facebook application ‘Pork Invaders’, Obama seemed a master of social media and digital text. However, since taking office Obama’s use of YouTube and Flickr shows a more troubled relationship with the participatory culture he once championed. As this article expla…
Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
Tactics for feminist organizing are changing with the rise of new technologies. From the standpoint of expending digital labor, not all of these changes seem to be for the better. This essay looks at the practices of the international collective FemTechNet, a network of hundreds of scholars, learners, artists, archivists, and activists focused on feminist research on technology. FemTechNet was founded in 2012 in response to what the initial colle…
Home inspection: Mina Rees and national computing infrastructure
This essay seeks to undermine the primacy of Vannevar Bush as an architect of digital culture by reimagining the story of national computing infrastructure through the framework of feminized care work. It argues that early forms of networked computational media were situated in collaborative spaces in which labor oriented around utilization, maintenance, and other forms of labor associated with domesticity were understood to be essential duties. …
Black History, State History, and Problems of Claiming Digital Middle Ground
Black History, State History, and Problems of Claiming Digital Middle Ground Elizabeth Losh (bio) A. Miller, Ken Middleton, and Amy York, Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations: Tennesseans' Search for Citizenship, Community, and Opportunity, Middle Tennessee State University James E. Walker Library, dsi.mtsu.edu/trials/ (accessed April 12, 2018). In the years since Tara McPherson asked the uncomfortable question in her essay "Why Are the Digital …
Against Mentoring
Against Mentoring Elizabeth Losh (bio) Mentoring can be a problematic term. According to Google's Ngram Viewer, the word mentoring, despite its associations with unselfish activities, seems to be roughly correlated with the rise of neoliberalism and its associated focus on human capital. Of course, I do not accept broad generalizations that the digital humanities promote a neoliberal agenda, because such conspiracy theories often marginalize alte…
Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities
The Fulll Monty
Black DH is central rather than peripheral to the field of the digital humanities and challenges the origin stories of humanities computing and its blind spots about data and white supremacy. Unfortunately the same issues about diversity and inclusivity in conferences, professional organizations, and scholarly communication remain unchanged over the decades, and the burden falls on Black and Brown DHers disproportionately
Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection
Feminist Approaches to Disinformation Studies
Disinformation, inaccurate information spread intentionally for profit, ideology, or harm is a major public issue and a significant object of study across disciplines However, much scholarship treats “disinformation” as an irritant without recognizing that it often harnesses metanarratives about inequality and identity, and disproportionately impacts marginalized communities. For example, counting how many “sockpuppet” accounts contribute to a Tw…
AI Literacy and the Changing Digital Political Landscape
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Host Reed Van Schenck discuss AI literacy, digital politics, and the 2024 US presidential election with authors Elizabeth Losh (William and Mary) and Rita Raley (UC Santa Barbara). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Stefania Milan
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)