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Alex Gekker

Digital Media Researcher and Scholar

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Values in Algorithms, Clips and Replicators

Cathy O’Neill tells us that ‘algorithms are opinions, embedded in code‘. She is correct of course, and this is something that those

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October 25, 2017 Alex
Gamification AI, appetizing and nutrient-filled, ST Discovery, the darkest timeline, Universal Paperclips, valuesLeave a Comment on Values in Algorithms, Clips and Replicators

Conspiracies bubbling

Had a lot of fun at the DMI Winter School 2017 last week, where I ended up pitching a sub-project about re-imagining

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January 18, 2017 Alex
Uncategorized conspiracy theories, digital methods, DMI, filter bubble, social network analysis, Trump, YoutubeLeave a Comment on Conspiracies bubbling

Defending my Doctoral Dissertation

Tomorrow I will dress up in ridiculous clothing, stand in a room full of dead white dudes portraits and defend my doctoral

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December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 Alex
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Waze, Wars, Wanton Disregard for User Privacy

I’ve decided to jot some things down about the recent Israeli Waze-featured controversy. While the main facts have been reported in the

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March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 Alex
Mobility idf, map - world distinction, qualandia, waze, west bank1 Comment on Waze, Wars, Wanton Disregard for User Privacy

From Google to Waze and Back, or Here Comes the Drivenger

Here’s a prolonged deliberation on agency, design, cars and the future rise of drivengers, that will drive/ride automatic cars. It’s an attempt

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December 22, 2014 Alex
Mobility drivenger, google maps, places, self-driving cars, street view, wazeLeave a Comment on From Google to Waze and Back, or Here Comes the Drivenger

Maps Under Fire

I’m doing my field work in Israel ATM, a usually complicated affair that is being even more complicated by constant rocket alarms,

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July 15, 2014 Alex
Uncategorized color red, crisis mapping, Gaza, google maps, google maps mashup, Israel, Quassam, rockets, siren, tzev adomLeave a Comment on Maps Under Fire

Colonizing the (pre-cognitive) Quotidian

As I was writing a paragraph on what David Berry calls the ‘pre-thought’ or the ‘pre-cognitive’ and how it relates to my

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June 9, 2014 Alex
Personal casual, Critical Theory and the Digital, David Berry, pre-cognitive, zoteroLeave a Comment on Colonizing the (pre-cognitive) Quotidian

Conference | SMART Cognitive Science 2015

Cognitive Science conference next year in Amsterdam with two interesting workshops: -Embodied Cognition, Art and Affordances Organizers: Julian Kiverstein and Erik Rietveld

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May 28, 2014 Alex
Academia affordance, cognition, conference, games, SMART cognitive scienceLeave a Comment on Conference | SMART Cognitive Science 2015

What Facebook ‘Nearby Friends’ Means from a Playful Perspective

Well, it means that Facebook is further tapping into What Brian Sutton-Smith calls ‘the rhetoric of play as the imaginary’ – whereas

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April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 Alex
Mobility facebook, friends nearby, location, play, sutton-smithLeave a Comment on What Facebook ‘Nearby Friends’ Means from a Playful Perspective

Critical Ways of Seeing – 21-22/5/2014 | Radical Media Forum

Critical Ways of Seeing – 21-22/5/2014 | Radical Media Forum. An interesting event at Goldsmiths, I think I’m going: Two Day Symposium

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April 21, 2014 Alex
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