Neil Postman Grad Conference

The annual NYU Neil Postman Graduate Conference. Organized by @mccNYU students #postmanconf

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We're excited to host @mccNYU's annual graduate student conference with Prof. @whkchun as our keynote speaker! A special thank you to all our co-sponsors: @SCAatNYU, @nyukevo, @Idmnyu, @NYUHistory, @nyuanthro, NYU Global Asia, and NYU Performance Studies! Please circulate!

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Virtual Space/Time
Moderated by Maria Paz Almenara
Billie Bugara, Yilia Qu, Kevin Echavarria, Amanda Parmer

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2-5 PM | Roundtables (in-person only)
The Media and its Other

Moderated by Noah Ọládélé
Alex Bliziotis, Shikhar Goel, Osman Osman, Mary Ainomugisha

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Meet the #postmanconference2022 organizers: @PaulatheOctopus, Meg, and @SalwaHoque! @mccNYU faculty advisor @Sierra_OffLine and admin @DovePedlosky! And of course our wonderful keynote, @whkchun!

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One of those days when you finally meet someone who’s work first helped you more than a decade ago to learn to think critically (in my case, about software). 🙏🏽

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A special thanks to our presenters, keynote speaker @whkchun, our sponsors, admin, faculty, co-organizers, and everyone who attended in-person and virtually!

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We're excited to host @mccNYU's annual graduate student conference with Prof. @whkchun as our keynote speaker! A special thank you to all our co-sponsors: @SCAatNYU, @nyukevo, @Idmnyu, @NYUHistory, @nyuanthro, NYU Global Asia, and NYU Performance Studies! Please circulate!

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And that’s a wrap! Until next year!

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We are so excited for our keynote speech by Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (⁦@whkchun⁩)!! For those who registered, please join us in-person or via zoom at 5.30pm today!

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Final Panel Q and A in progress before we break and resume for the much awaited keynote! #postmanconference2022

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Panel 4 Now! #postmanconference2022 #hinterlands #media #technology

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Lakshita examines how discourses around skin color and labor mediate the use of fun/pleasurable filters on social media and draws attention to how this produces different categories of beauty workers as a function of caste and class in New Delhi, India

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Nicolas suggests that the history of video games is tied to economies of extraction.

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Panel 3 now!!!

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Alex explores what happens when you bring the hinterlands into the metropole, troubling that depth and distance, to make clear that these seemingly disparate zones, intertwined via infrastructures-of-infrastructures (megastructures), ought be thought of as one and the same.

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Lunch! If you’re at the conference and seeing this, why are you on Twitter? Head to Floor 7 to eat!! #postmanconference2022