Assistant Professor of Digital Cultures, University of Alberta
Jonathan Cohn teaches courses on video game analysis, digital culture, ideology and technology, surveillance and justice, and film history. He has published articles on the history of the World Wide Web, the cultural force of algorithms, feminism and anti-feminism on social networks, and sci-fi television. His book, The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture (Rutgers, 2019) analyzes how websites recommend goods, entertainment, spouses and cosmetic surgery to users, and the surprising things users then do with them.
Online viewer privacy is regulated by an act originally designed to protect video rentals
Jul 22, 2019 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
In 1988, after United States Supreme Court nominee Robert Borks videotape rental history was leaked to the press, Congress realised the threat that new technologies through the clandestine buying and selling of personal...
Google's algorithms discriminate against women and people of colour
Apr 27, 2019 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
At the start of Black History Month 2019, Google designed its daily-changing homepage logo to include an image of African-American activist Sojourner Truth, the great 19th-century abolitionist and womens rights activist....
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