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Katherine Cross
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Join date: Apr 22, 2025
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Katherine Cross is a PhD candidate in information science at the University of Washington School of Information. She has extensively studied online harassment, social media culture, content moderation, and the ethics of big data. She is also a sought-after commentator on these issues, as well as on video gaming, virtual reality, transgender politics, and media criticism.
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Nov 22, 2022 ∙ 21 min
‘We’re All Mad As Hell Now’—How ‘Network’ (1976) Captures the Anti-Politics of Social Media
‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ is a phrase that has been raptured up into the popular English lexicon, cited, quoted, parodied, remixed, and dissolved into an ironic confirmation of the satire that produced it. It was the most iconic line from Network (1976), a now-classic film that told the dark tale of a fictional American network news anchor, Howard Beale (played by posthumous Academy Award-winner Peter Finch), whose blooming madness was exploited by his bosses...
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Nov 22, 2022 ∙ 17 min
The Thin End of the Wedge: How Trans Rights Have Emerged as a Keystone in the Feminist Politics on Bodily Autonomy
As of this writing, an Alabama law that would have made it a felony in the state to provide a teenager with gender-affirming healthcare,...
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