Aaron Shapiro
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urban media + STS. asst prof of technology studies @UNCDeptComm. author of “design, control, predict.” member @AAUP.
Carrboro, USA
Joined March 2014
I'm extremely pleased to share my new article in @SurvSoc_Journal, where I document my experience working briefly as a data collector in the retail "price monitoring" industry 1/
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@DrHarrisJay Pigskins riffs on “redskins” but calls out DC politicians as swine, while pork barrels expands and elaborates on how the swine package their politics
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@BornDinner I happened to get a very good deal on chicken thighs actually. About to expire family packs are the way
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big data peripheries, a la @ZaneGTCooper
Microsoft's purchase of Person County's 1,300 megasite is full of intrigue. It's on land between @DukeEnergy 's Hyco and Roxboro plants + 230 kv lines. Could power a data center. 6 weeks ago County Econ Dev Director told commissioners "this is the strictest non-disclosure 1/3
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RT @Devika__narayan: On my way to Sheffield - excited for my first @AoIR_org. On Friday at 11am I'll discuss a relational view of cloud pro…
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RT @alexgekker: Really interesting new paper on assetization of cars. This is a very logical outcome of the automotive platformization proc…
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Has anyone written about the disjuncture btw coldwar strategic decentralization in the US (suburbanization, the internet) and the geographic concentration of US critical infrastructure/supply chains in climate-vulnerable sun-belt due to anti-union R2W policies?
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MC Forelle & I wrote a paper about #assetization in the automotive sector, forthcoming in Engaging Science, Technology & Society. "Driving into a paywall: The subscriptionization of consumer vehicles." Pre-print here
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university building found not guilty despite having things and organizations in it
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Me, as professor, on last day of class 🤷
For fuck’s sake, New York Times. This wasn’t an “improvisational departure.” This was a total lunatic acting like a total lunatic.
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RT @newyorkerunion: The results are in! With 99% of members voting, the New Yorker Union has unanimously passed a strike-authorization vote…
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come work with me and the media & technology studies unit @UNCComm! job call highlights cultural studies of tech, disability queer communities, environment & tech, feminist media studies, and more
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RT @LoicRiom: My contribution to the platform/platformization debate 🫣 Being a “Global Music Platform”: Platform Work in Light-Tech Capita…
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the coolest thing about @UNCComm is its organic interdisciplinarity, and especially the multiple stage productions joseph megel coordinates and directs every year
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RT @s_ristovska: Come work with us @cumediastudies at @CUBoulderCMCI. We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Technology, Justice, and Equit…
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