Curry Chandler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Curry Chandler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Curry |
| FAMILY NAME | Chandler |
| SIGNATURE | CHANDLER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2784-7538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Painting an inclusive enclosure: Post-racial public art as compensatory cultural strategy in Pittsburgh
In this article, I analyze the erasure and eventual replacement of a public mural in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh as an act of gentrification-induced cultural displacement precipitated by tech-led urban development. Due to its role in the mural's removal, the tech company Duolingo was entangled with public controversy over the erasure in relation to contemporaneous impacts of gentrification in the neighborhood. In response to the controversy, Duol…
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: Test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh
Free to Work Anxiously: Splintering Precarity Among Drivers for Uber and Lyft
Drawing on interviews from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, this study explores how Uber and Lyft drivers understand their own digital labor. Situated between the presumed freedom of the digital economy and the feelings of risk that accompany independently contracted work under neoliberalism, these drivers evidence what we term splintering precarity-a bifurcated set of risks that stands in contrast to both certain more privileged dotcom employe…
Marshall Arts: An Inventory of Common Criticisms of McLuhan’s Media Studies
There has been a resurgence of interest in Marshall McLuhan in the past two decades, and 2011 saw numerous tributes and retrospectives honoring the centenary of his birth. This article considers McLuhan's standing among contemporary scholars by analyzing three of the most common criticisms of his work: technological determinism, technological utopianism, and nonscientific methodology. The author concludes that many commentators have neglected to …
Free to Work Anxiously: Splintering Precarity Among Drivers for Uber and Lyft
Drawing on interviews from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, this study explores how Uber and Lyft drivers understand their own digital labor. Situated between the presumed freedom of the digital economy and the feelings of risk that accompany independently contracted work under neoliberalism, these drivers evidence what we term splintering precarity-a bifurcated set of risks that stands in contrast to both certain more privileged dotcom employe…
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: Test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh
Marshall Arts: An Inventory of Common Criticisms of McLuhan’s Media Studies
There has been a resurgence of interest in Marshall McLuhan in the past two decades, and 2011 saw numerous tributes and retrospectives honoring the centenary of his birth. This article considers McLuhan's standing among contemporary scholars by analyzing three of the most common criticisms of his work: technological determinism, technological utopianism, and nonscientific methodology. The author concludes that many commentators have neglected to …
Free to Work Anxiously: Splintering Precarity Among Drivers for Uber and Lyft
Drawing on interviews from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, this study explores how Uber and Lyft drivers understand their own digital labor. Situated between the presumed freedom of the digital economy and the feelings of risk that accompany independently contracted work under neoliberalism, these drivers evidence what we term splintering precarity-a bifurcated set of risks that stands in contrast to both certain more privileged dotcom employe…
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: Test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh
Painting an inclusive enclosure: Post-racial public art as compensatory cultural strategy in Pittsburgh
In this article, I analyze the erasure and eventual replacement of a public mural in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh as an act of gentrification-induced cultural displacement precipitated by tech-led urban development. Due to its role in the mural's removal, the tech company Duolingo was entangled with public controversy over the erasure in relation to contemporaneous impacts of gentrification in the neighborhood. In response to the controversy, Duol…
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Autonomy (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 works) · Determinism (1 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 works)