Joyce

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On Rejections and Goodbyes of the Online Sex Work Industry
MARCH 6th, 2021

Between You and Me:
The Emergence of Personalized Information
FEB 6th, 2021

Writing Your Online Self-Portrait 101
APRIL 2nd, 2021

In Maria Teresa Cruz’s Art Curation and Critique in the Age of Digital Humanities, Cruz frameworks the ways in which we are caught in the intersections of art as a continuously growing form. She discusses the dichotomy of art as something that is simultaneously growing apart from its historical links, while it also integrates these historical details into new creations on a digital platform. Among these ideas, Cruz asks one critical question: what remains in and as the “value” of art if it is becoming increasingly shapeless and formless, to the point that it can indeed exist or surface as everything that surrounds us? One of the ways in which she explores this “value” of art is through the curation of media and cultural information in digital applications, which are often distributed to us in a highly personalized manner...

On a cloudy afternoon, you decide to go on a third-party website to continue that romantic comedy TV show you’ve been binging for the past week. While waiting for the video to start, an advertisement on the website’s right hand corner catches your eye: “REAL BABES NEAR YOU / sign up now for live webcam sessions” flashes repeatedly in a wink-like motion, accompanied by an image of a smiling woman. Your immediate thought was to click on the cross icon located on the top left of the advertisement, and you proceed to hover your mouse over the “report this ad” bar. Your left finger was about to touch down on the mouse, but you hesitate, thinking about why the advertisement is appearing here...

What’s on your mind? This is a golden question that millions and millions of people encounter everyday, an iconic written prompt that serves to guide them before they start typing away on the keyboards of their devices. From status updates, profile “bios” to making a public post, the act of writing online can feel like a design process in and of itself: we engage in an ideation session based on a given topic, sketch and document our generated ideas, delve into writing several rough drafts, go into recurring cycles of editing to make sure that the final version of the writing is most relevant and captures our desired tone and original intentions, and finally, hitting the “publish” button where the writing then surfaces as the final product of our craft...