Spreadsheets and the Modern Fact made Operational
Spreadsheets are the modern fact made operational. They inherit the rhetorical power of double-entry bookkeeping, extend it through computation, and enforce it through synchronization. To understand spreadsheet capitalism, is not to reject numbers, but to remember that their authority was built, not given.
Remediating the Blurred Lines of Human-AI Collaboration in Disaster Management and Public Safety Communications
Drawing on Bolter and Grusin’s theory of remediation, with its two logics of transparent immediacy and hypermediation, we can piece together how AI can function as a next-generation operating system for Common Operating Picture (COPs) in disaster management and public safety command centers, dashboards, and mobile Personal Operating Pictures (POP).
Show-Biz: The Televisual Re-mediation of the Modern Global Economy
Media industries “show” business and finance through various camera, editing, and special effects techniques, drawing in data from many sources and presenting them on different windows of high-resolution screens. These techniques create ways of seeing and showing the economy. Consequently, they influence public opinion as well as investment and trading strategies that shape global, local, and national economic activities and investment patterns.
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Professor (full) at State University of New York (SUNY) Korea since 2016. Research Professor for Stony Brook University. Moved to Austin, Texas in August 2012 to join the Digital Media Management program at St. Edwards University. Spent the previous decade on the faculty at New York University teaching and researching information systems, digital economics, and global political economy
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