CUNY Academic Commons | Bethany D. Holmstrom | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/bholmstrom/activity/ Activity feed for Bethany D. Holmstrom. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 48465154276e24e26439a426e03eb4e6 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/761947/ Tue, 04 May 2021 22:33:48 -0400 4e82d4d04c153c7cfe93caeb4eb0b4d3 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) created the site National Day on Writing https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/704954/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:11:46 -0400 cb6cc707680338676c068f48baf812b4 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) created the site Incarceration and the Humanities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/564882/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 21:51:40 -0500 3b2f1a5957bfc886b0d3ed88d2f9f32b Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) created the site Meanings of War: Its Technologies and Aftermaths https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/459455/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:50:19 -0400 fa09b171523f527996d4da4ee08ef51d Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Future Humans http://futurehumans.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=47 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:28:52 -0500 Created by: Jeremy Couillard

Intended Course: HUW 169 – Internet Game Design

Course Level: 100 level, mostly 2nd year students at LaGuardia Community College

Student Difficulty: Difficult – this is the […]

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Intended Course: LIB 200 / Liberal Arts Capstone

Course Level: any

Student Difficulty: moderate

Teacher Preparation: moderate

Class Size: 25

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Intended Course: LIB 200 / Liberal Arts Capstone / Humanism, Science, & Technology

Course Level: any

Student Difficulty: easy

Teacher Preparation: moderate

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]]> f9e7e091a4d9435a685939abd44446c0 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) created the site Future Humans https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/449366/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:20:36 -0500 399d26be0b910e13b8c44387d72cee1f Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=817 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:54:36 -0400 This seminar has been an incredibly rewarding experience, both in terms of my research and teaching. I want to echo something that Dominique brought up about this being a “regenerative” space: the intellectual […]

]]> 0f914ed22ce127215806cd759244c911 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=614 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:56:36 -0400 In this second “installment” of Technology, Self, and Society, I’m hoping to advance my own understanding and knowledge of artificial intelligence, robots, and post/trans-humanism. These readings and discussions […]

]]> a7df4210c66ce9fef650167f470ea5c2 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=559 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:06:47 -0400 ThumbnailWhile I didn’t get to roll out my new seminar ideas this year, I’ll be teaching an LIB 200 section in the fall drawing on some of the readings/themes that we touched upon this semester. My LIB 200 fall course will […]

]]> 52d4e785a45a8b8d875cc02b8a53e77d Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=430 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:55:17 -0500 Just for future reference, here’s Mark Marino’s Know Thy Selfie essay assignment on Medium that came up today.

 

-Bethany

]]> 26a2cec8f0ea583c02b5cd8905477e42 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) commented on the post, Question for Feb. 20 Winter Institute, on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/01/28/question-for-feb-20-winter-institute/#comment-41 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:55:38 -0500 I think I’m going to stick with the idea I presented in my most recent post: I’m going to develop my fall hybrid LIB 200 section as an opportunity to explore the anxieties surrounding robotics and cyborgs. I’ve […]

]]> 1cb4c44ef3fe4d94739553a4b7c410c8 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) commented on the post, Cyborgs, Robots, & Cylons, on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/11/20/cyborgs-robots-cylons/#comment-36 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:34:29 -0500 I’ve already started a Zotero library for the course, actually.

]]> f35c4f5537e094567fcd3af2607250c7 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=327 Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:21:52 -0500 I have been on a bit of a dystopia kick in my teaching as of late: The Walking Dead (both the graphic narratives and the AMC series) has been the focus for my Research Paper class, and I’ll be teaching […]

]]> c4d85367d67a8ff38ad2a94529ab89e1 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) commented on the post, Question for the November Session:, on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/11/10/question-for-the-november-session/#comment-18 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:15:03 -0500 I found myself most drawn to Grau’s claim that “in the search of the substance of man, we hope to realize the essence of life in projections of utopian technologies” (235). It seems to me that this optimistic […]

]]> dbf4d8bfbca5a50db4cf9ba703c17957 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) commented on the post, Questions on Media Refusal (for 10/9, with Laura Portwood-Stacer), on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/09/27/questions-on-media-refusal-for-109-with-laura-portwood-stacer/#comment-12 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:25:26 -0400 I found Portwood-Stacer’s considerations of media refusal in the articles – including class, labor, gender, taste, and privilege, among others – quite insightful. Revisiting her article on Facebook refusal was […]

]]> 4cec6fc2c05cc669496396d3aa3d7d01 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/304552/ Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:48:04 -0400 b7d472f711a27c7ecc3cb604dd6b3909 Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Technology, Self, and Society http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=167 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:19:53 -0400 I admit that I share some of Sherry Turkle’s reservations about technology and social media. These are, frankly, more things I find personally irritating than anything else: the ever-present smartphone during social engagements (though I am guilty of this often), the expectations that I will be available via email all the time (clearly much more pronounced in other occupations, as evidenced by Diane). I must echo Mara’s thoughts: the demands that some employers place upon their workers to be accessible and “tethered” to social media and email reflects the more pervasive exploitation of workers via the all-consuming nature of capitalism. The whittling down of “free time” – indeed the very demarcation of time itself – is the hallmark of capitalism and the Industrial Age. When Skyping with her grandmother, Ellen (in the Introduction) multi-tasks for work rather than devote her full attention to her grandmother: is this truly an issue about technology – an advance that allows them to “see” each other – or about how that technology is deployed by capitalism?

There were moments when I found Turkle’s…resistance? hesitation? paranoia?…about technology problematic. If a senior citizen, relegated to a nursing home, with little social contact or vastly changed patterns of interaction (this will increasingly become the norm as baby boomers age of course) finds comfort in a robotic seal, is this really a troubling thing? If the author’s daughter, in Paris, takes a brief moment at dinner to connect with a friend from home in Boston, is this truly somehow infringing upon a prior experience of Paris that Turkle found more “authentic”? What about the connections and networks her child is able to maintain via this social media, including the relationships from her childhood? It seems that much of the anxiety surrounding social media and robot technology as companionship privileges prior forms of communication as somehow more “authentic” – a subjective and problematic generalization, to say the least.

Throughout this reading, I kept returning to the remarks made by Cathy Davidson during Opening Sessions. Davidson argued that standardized testing forces us to be “silent and alone,” not technology: she sees the digital as an exciting space for collaboration and connectedness, defying the restrictions on time and individual labor set in place by the Industrial Age. For Turkle, digital technology is instead what makes us “silent and alone.” Technology can subvert capitalism and its resulting alienation, or can be used to support it.

 

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