Daemons are the programs that run the internet. Here’s why it’s important to understand them.
Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University Daemons are real. Or at least computer daemons are. A daemon is early computer slang. In the first computer labs, daemons meant the programs running in the background, doing the invisible work of keeping … [Continue reading]
Review of Communication: Themed Issue Call for Papers
Optimization: Towards a Critical Concept Guest Editors: Fenwick McKelvey and Joshua Neves Optimization has emerged as a quiet “buzzword.” It is seemingly everywhere and yet elusive. Our bodies, tools, and institutions are now understood as … [Continue reading]
October 9 Event: Alexia Maddox
Bitcoin Blockchains on Twitter Alexia Maddox October 9, 2018 4:30–6pm Cryptocurrencies represent emerging financial technologies engendered through overlapping community values of decentralised peer-to-peer exchange, encryption technologies … [Continue reading]
Faking It: Deepfake Porn and Moral Panic
Essay by Maggie MacDonald 2018 has been the year of deepfakes: algorithmically generated videos that insert faces into existing video footage, fabricating convincing scenes which never took place in reality. They’re named after the Reddit user who … [Continue reading]
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