Science & Technology Archives

Cultural Studies

Risk

—Robert F. Reid-Pharr
We must reevaluate the strength of the words we produce, that we might produce work equal to the profound need and grand promise of our difficult and interesting times.
Anthropology

America’s water whiplash

—Jeremy Schmidt
The Oroville Dam cannot be abandoned as it stands. Yet it is not sufficient to merely patch the problems when water’s erosive force is set to undermine the foundations of both material and myth.
Cultural Studies

We Need Algorithmic Transparency

—Kelly Gates
Understanding what’s inside the black box of cloud computing matters. We need transparency in the weird experience of being human.
Education

“Moonlight” schooled Hollywood on race. Can it take on school discipline, too?

—Derek Black
This year’s Academy Award winner for best picture tackles a difficult topic in the education world today: school discipline.
American History

Trump’s assault on our national history must end

—Thomas A. Foster and Margaret Storey
Trump’s poorly informed comments about the Civil War are part of a larger pattern by the president of misrepresenting the facts of American history for political purposes.

We Need Algorithmic Transparency

May 15, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Kelly Gates
Understanding what’s inside the black box of cloud computing matters. We need transparency in the weird experience of being human.

From the March for Science to an Abolitionist Science

April 20, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Britt Rusert
An abolitionist science moves beyond generic defenses of science in an age of populist skepticism and backlash, requiring an evaluation of different types of science and an excavation of their specific relationships to forms of power and exploitation.

Don’t Bring a Test Tube to a Gun Fight

April 19, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Antony Alumkal
The March for Science is a response to politically motivated efforts to undermine scientific research and ignore scientific evidence when crafting public policy. Science is under increasingly heavy political fire, and the March for Science indicates that scientists plan to fire back.

Available, Accessible, Usable

March 28, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Elizabeth Ellcessor
Creating accessible spaces, technologies, and content often entails augmenting, altering, or otherwise working around the assumption that all users will have a “normal” able body.

More Than a Symbolic Change: iOS 10 and the Accessible Icon Emoji

September 7, 2016 nyupressblog 1

—Elizabeth Ellcessor
The revised accessibility symbol emoji introduced in iOS 10 is not the familiar static wheelchair symbol. Its inclusion demonstrates how art and activism can influence culture, industries, and policies with major implications for access and participation in broader society.

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Risk

America’s water whiplash

We Need Algorithmic Transparency

“Moonlight” schooled Hollywood on race. Can it take on school discipline, too?

Trump’s assault on our national history must end

From The Square

NYU Press Blog

Science & Technology

We Need Algorithmic Transparency

From the March for Science to an Abolitionist Science

Don’t Bring a Test Tube to a Gun Fight

Available, Accessible, Usable

More Than a Symbolic Change: iOS 10 and the Accessible Icon Emoji

Zika and the Limits of Biomedical Fixes

On Biomedicine and its Limits: An Interview with Joseph E. Davis

Yelp for Peeple and the Right to be Forgotten