Nassim Parvin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6361653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nassim Parvin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nassim |
| FAMILY NAME | Parvin |
| SIGNATURE | PARVIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8615-3072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Review of silicon valley imperialism
This review examines Erin McElroy's Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times and its critique of Silicon Valley imperialism as it intersects with Romania's socialist past. I center my review on how the book illuminates technocapitalist logics, reframes ingenuity under precarity as collective experimentation, and imagines futures beyond dominant technological and political formations. In this way, McElroy's…
Catalyst Lead Editing as Creative Worldbuilding
In this piece for the 10th anniversary issue, one of Catalyst’s early lead editorial teams reflects on their experiences. A short collective introduction offers a metaphor of the journal as a garden that was inherited when it was already spring. Then, each of the trio in this lead editor team—Anne Pollock, Nassim Parvin, and Laura Foster—shares her reflections in turn, foregrounding different scales of the endeavor: cultivating authors, peer revi…
Feminist Philosophical Toys
What are the matters of philosophy? How do they shape how philosophy is practiced, what kinds of knowledge it produces, and who counts as a philosopher? The dominant matters of Western philosophy, or its epistemic companions, are books and journal articles even when dialogic and oral traditions are acknowledged or referenced. In this paper, we argue that alternatives would be necessary if philosophy were to be a more capacious and welcoming disci…
Mess and Making Matters in Feminist Teaching
How do materials and making come to matter in the messy practices of feminist teaching? This Lab Meeting shares examples of interdisciplinary work in feminist making and teaching across a range of contexts (AI portraiture, printmaking, quilting, musical performance, game design, theater, storytelling, and more) to extend the discussion of materials in feminist thought, a topic of long-standing importance in the field. As a group of theorist-pract…
Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production
research-article Share on Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production Authors: The Citational Justice Collective View Profile , Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed University of Toronto University of TorontoView Profile , Sareeta Amrute University of Washington and Data & Society University of Washington and Data & SocietyView Profile , Jeffrey Bardzell Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State UniversityView Profile , Shaowen Bardzell Pe…
Unintended by Design
This paper revisits the term “unintended consequences,” drawing upon an illustrative vignette to show how it is used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns. Tracing the term to its original introduction by Robert Merton and building on feminist technoscience analyses, we uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design
The Conjoined Spectacles of the “Smart Super Bowl”
This essay examines the Super Bowl and the smart city as conjoined spectacles. A focused case study on Super Bowl LIII and its staging in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019 allows us to investigate how the use of cutting-edge smart technologies, including cameras, sensors, artificial intelligence, image recognition, and data collection techniques to secure Mercedes Benz stadium naturalizes a broader anticipatory logic of state and corporate intervention, o…
A story of paradise
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
Doing Justice to Stories
Researchers and activists are increasingly drawing on the practice of collecting, archiving, and sharing stories to advance social justice, especially given the low cost and accessibility of digital technologies. These practices differ in their aims and scope yet they share a common conviction: that digital storytelling is empowering especially when curating and disseminating life stories of marginalized groups. In this paper, I question this con…
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Doing Justice to Stories
Researchers and activists are increasingly drawing on the practice of collecting, archiving, and sharing stories to advance social justice, especially given the low cost and accessibility of digital technologies. These practices differ in their aims and scope yet they share a common conviction: that digital storytelling is empowering especially when curating and disseminating life stories of marginalized groups. In this paper, I question this con…
A story of paradise
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
Unintended by Design
This paper revisits the term “unintended consequences,” drawing upon an illustrative vignette to show how it is used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns. Tracing the term to its original introduction by Robert Merton and building on feminist technoscience analyses, we uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design
The Conjoined Spectacles of the “Smart Super Bowl”
This essay examines the Super Bowl and the smart city as conjoined spectacles. A focused case study on Super Bowl LIII and its staging in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019 allows us to investigate how the use of cutting-edge smart technologies, including cameras, sensors, artificial intelligence, image recognition, and data collection techniques to secure Mercedes Benz stadium naturalizes a broader anticipatory logic of state and corporate intervention, o…
Mess and Making Matters in Feminist Teaching
How do materials and making come to matter in the messy practices of feminist teaching? This Lab Meeting shares examples of interdisciplinary work in feminist making and teaching across a range of contexts (AI portraiture, printmaking, quilting, musical performance, game design, theater, storytelling, and more) to extend the discussion of materials in feminist thought, a topic of long-standing importance in the field. As a group of theorist-pract…
Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production
research-article Share on Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production Authors: The Citational Justice Collective View Profile , Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed University of Toronto University of TorontoView Profile , Sareeta Amrute University of Washington and Data & Society University of Washington and Data & SocietyView Profile , Jeffrey Bardzell Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State UniversityView Profile , Shaowen Bardzell Pe…
Feminist Philosophical Toys
What are the matters of philosophy? How do they shape how philosophy is practiced, what kinds of knowledge it produces, and who counts as a philosopher? The dominant matters of Western philosophy, or its epistemic companions, are books and journal articles even when dialogic and oral traditions are acknowledged or referenced. In this paper, we argue that alternatives would be necessary if philosophy were to be a more capacious and welcoming disci…
Catalyst Lead Editing as Creative Worldbuilding
In this piece for the 10th anniversary issue, one of Catalyst’s early lead editorial teams reflects on their experiences. A short collective introduction offers a metaphor of the journal as a garden that was inherited when it was already spring. Then, each of the trio in this lead editor team—Anne Pollock, Nassim Parvin, and Laura Foster—shares her reflections in turn, foregrounding different scales of the endeavor: cultivating authors, peer revi…
Review of silicon valley imperialism
This review examines Erin McElroy's Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times and its critique of Silicon Valley imperialism as it intersects with Romania's socialist past. I center my review on how the book illuminates technocapitalist logics, reframes ingenuity under precarity as collective experimentation, and imagines futures beyond dominant technological and political formations. In this way, McElroy's…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works)