Computing in Context

Gabriella Garcia

Mar 1, 20204 min read

Feminist Technoscience response 1: A Stigma Problem through "Standpoint Epistemology" pt. 1

"Standpoint theories argue for 'starting off thought' from the lives of marginalized peoples, that beginning in those determinate,...

Gabriella Garcia

Nov 26, 20194 min read

Computing in Context week 3-4: Hero Worship

My first reaction to Carlyle's Great Man Theory was that I couldn't help but wonder if it was satire. With phrases of extraordinary...

Gabriella Garcia

Nov 12, 20195 min read

Computing in Context week 2: Sticky Web

I have no trouble critiquing Zuckerberg's assertion that "there is huge a need... to get everyone in the world connected," and that "the...

Gabriella Garcia

Nov 4, 20192 min read

Computing in Context week 1: Hippie's Internet

There was a time in my life when Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace would have excited me; my final rationale defense...