Program

From intimate depictions of bodies to substantial changes to the body itself, digitality permeates us.

To sustain protest we must also turn to one another for support. Can digital media serve as a means for this without undermining it?

Digitality hasn't obviated geography as was anticipated; it has made geopolitical boundaries simultaneously more visible and more intensely monitored. Sometimes technology even makes visible border practices that states intend to be invisible.

The representation of self-identified queer people is not merely about inclusion; it's about ending heteronormativity as social control and positing a world of more and better possibilities.

Using technology in off-label, unintended ways can have more impact on society than what designers and developers originally had in mind for their creations.

Digital media has taken on a structuring role in more and more of our lives, including participation in civic life. The role of citizen is now deeply entwined with digital platforms' interests and affordances.

Our expectations of romantic relationships are deeply heteronormative. The experiences and transgressive actions of queer people stand to change that for everyone.

What it means to exist with technology, and what it means to exist as technology

Technology is often sold as labor-saving, but often it doesn't reduce work but shift it, presenting new problems for how wealth is distributied and value is conceived.

How we capture bodies in art and visual communication media sheds light on how bodies are imbued with identity.

Technology is not merely a conveyance for fully formed ideas. We often think with and through our devices to start to arrive at unanticipated conclusions.

The graphic user interface mainstreamed computers; is there an audio equivalent? How do we conceptualize our changing relationship to sound in a life lived with technology?

Far from the demystified modernity described by turn of the century sociologists, we are now living in a world shot through with fantastic stories of magic and imagination.

Beyond the usual bromides about sharing and information freedom are more complicated questions about how information is organized and made to circulate, forerounding some uses for it and precluding others.

No tech platform can solve how communication and emotions are fraught with contradiction and confusion. As machines start to speak the language of affect, these contradictions may only intensify.

Racism isn't just about personal prejudice; it is a system whose structure often derives support and amplification from technology.

Tech firms optimize for engagment as if the idea were politically neutral and could be uncritically championed. But of course engagement has a politics and political ramifications, ranging from the monopolization of discourse to the training of algorithms to the distribution of opportunties for participating in civic life. What alternative metrics — or alternative to metrics — should be appealed to instead? This panel is co-organized by Logic magazine and features some of its contributors.