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👍🏿👎🏻: Emojis, Digital Blackface, and White Identity | Miranda Rosenblum

Does 👋🏻 mean something different than 👋🏾? What about ✊🏿 compared to ✊🏻? In 2015, Apple released a new array of emoji skin tones....

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The Word on the Street is not a Word: It’s An 😄 | Grace O’Brien

The newfound popularity of emojis and emoticons can be attributed to the human need for nonverbal communication, representing language progression and evolution.  They serve...

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Challenging Digital Media Studies

David Golumbia’s course “Challenging Media Studies” at Virginia Commonwealth University provides a topical survey of issues in current digital media studies. Dr. Golumbia passed...

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Common themes surface throughout issue 26 as many pieces explore how digital systems shape our identities, how we understand language, memory, institutions, and ourselves through contemporary means of control and transformation. Artists in the issue emphasize that digital spaces are not fixed environments and challenge expectations about how digital media should function and what kinds of experiences it can hold. We hope you enjoy each piece, the accompanying interviews, and response pieces.

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