Black Queer Fugitivity: Agency, Language, and Digital Joy

Natural Language and Logic of Agency

This light piece reflects on analogies between two often disjoint streams of research: the logical semantics and pragmatics of natural language and dynamic logics of general information-driven agency. The two areas show significant overlap in themes and tools, and yet, the focus seems subtly different in each, defying a simple comparison.We discuss some unusual questions that emerge when the tw...

An Agency Perspective on Digital Library Evaluation

Queer Economies

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises tha...

Agency And Resistance Strategies Among Black Primary Care Patients

AGENCY AND RESISTANCE STRATEGIES AMONG BLACK PRIMARYCARE PATIENTSbyJANELLA HUDSONAugust 2015 Advisor: Dr. Katheryn MaguireMajor: Communication StudiesDegree: Doctor of Philosophy Research has identified marginalized and minority patients as displaying fewerparticipatory behaviors during the clinical interaction. Using a culture-centeredframework, this study e...

Reopening the Black Box of Technology Artifacts and Human Agency

The argument presented in this article is that the premises governing human-technology interaction partly derive from the distinctive ways by which each technology defines a domain of reference, and organizes and codifies knowledge and experience within it. While social in its origins and its implications, technology constitutes a distinct realm of human experience that is not reducible to soci...