Science & Technology Studies

Projects

ArtBot image generated from the prompt "an abstract representation, in the style of Jean Michel Basquiat, representing computers and writing, with use of purple and gold colors, which depicts a screen containing an AI"

A Classroom-Centered Inquiry into Generative AI, Large Language Models, and Writing Praxis

Artificial Intelligence, Science & Technology Studies, Writing Studies
Black and White illustration of steampunk spiders and other creatures

Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below

Digital and Data Humanities, Global South, Science & Technology Studies, Social Justice
Three surveillance cameras atop barbed wire and spiked poles

Digital Border Technologies and Media

Human Rights, Immigration, Media Studies, Science & Technology Studies, Visual Culture

People

Diana Flores Ruíz

Diana Flores Ruíz (she/her/hers)

Diana Flores Ruíz is a feminist media scholar researching the sociotechnical media infrastructures of the US-Mexico border.

Gender and Sexuality Studies, Media Studies, Race, Science & Technology Studies, Visual Culture
Golden Owens

Golden M. Owens (she/her/hers)

Golden M. Owens is an Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on representations of race and gender, artificial intelligence, haunting, popular culture, and realized sounds and voices.

Cinema, Cinema Studies, Digital and Data Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Race, Science & Technology Studies
Ila Ravichandran

Ilā Ravichandran (they/she)

Ilā Ravichandran is an Assistant Professor of legal studies at UW Tacoma. She is an interdisciplinary sociologist with work in feminist studies, critical carceral studies, legal studies, Black studies and science & technology studies.

Black Studies, Queer Studies, Science & Technology Studies