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The digital future of color bias and racism

Asha Hassan Nooli is a rising sophomore at Lang College, and a first-generation American coming from a Somali background. She is interested in stimulating social reform on a global scale. The essay that follows was Hassan Nooli’s contribution to the New School Dean’s Honor Symposium, an annual celebration of the ...
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black on Black

Politics of the Internet

A Spring 2017 OOPS Course

The Internet is indeed a reflection of our times. Yet, a product of its social and political context, the Internet was invented in 1970s for the purpose of constructing an intelligence network that would resist a possible nuclear attack. Although initiated by the Military-Academic-Industrial complex of the era, the Internet ...
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Politics of the Internet