Mehitabel Glenhaber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mehitabel Glenhaber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mehitabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Glenhaber |
| SIGNATURE | GLENHABER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1076-1391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Precog visions: Predicting the future with the Minority Report sociotechnical imaginary
The 2002 film Minority Report regularly appears in tech press articles asking whether it ‘predicted the future’. When such publications invoke the film as having ‘predicted the future’ or ‘come true’, what social and political claims are being made? How has Minority Report become a discursive tool for imagining, constructing, and criticizing sociotechnical worlds? In this paper, we evaluate the worldbuilding process and real-world trajectories of…
Tumblr’s Xkit Guy, social media modding, and code as resistance
The platformalization of the internet means that fan communities must make homes in spaces that they do not own. Tumblr has lately been the chosen home for many online fandoms because of its affordances for anonymity and lack of censorship. However, the profit motives of Tumblr's owners, especially after Yahoo purchased the site in 2013, are frequently at odds with the affordances that nourish fan communities. Fans on Tumblr are aware of their pr…
Flying cars and bigots: Projecting post-Covid-19 worlds through the atlas of the civic imagination as refuge for hope
In April 2020, the Civic Imagination Project at the University of Southern California, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, asked participants around the world to share some of their reflections on what the world of 2060 might look like, and what roles the COVID-19 pandemic may have played in transforming how we live and relate to each other. For the past six years, the Civic Imagination Project has been conducting world-building workshops with gr…
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Tumblr’s Xkit Guy, social media modding, and code as resistance
The platformalization of the internet means that fan communities must make homes in spaces that they do not own. Tumblr has lately been the chosen home for many online fandoms because of its affordances for anonymity and lack of censorship. However, the profit motives of Tumblr's owners, especially after Yahoo purchased the site in 2013, are frequently at odds with the affordances that nourish fan communities. Fans on Tumblr are aware of their pr…
Flying cars and bigots: Projecting post-Covid-19 worlds through the atlas of the civic imagination as refuge for hope
In April 2020, the Civic Imagination Project at the University of Southern California, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, asked participants around the world to share some of their reflections on what the world of 2060 might look like, and what roles the COVID-19 pandemic may have played in transforming how we live and relate to each other. For the past six years, the Civic Imagination Project has been conducting world-building workshops with gr…
Precog visions: Predicting the future with the Minority Report sociotechnical imaginary
The 2002 film Minority Report regularly appears in tech press articles asking whether it ‘predicted the future’. When such publications invoke the film as having ‘predicted the future’ or ‘come true’, what social and political claims are being made? How has Minority Report become a discursive tool for imagining, constructing, and criticizing sociotechnical worlds? In this paper, we evaluate the worldbuilding process and real-world trajectories of…
Media studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)