Project MUSE®: Information & Culture - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Information & Culture.daily12026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 36 (2001) through current issueLatest Articles: Information & CultureTWOProject MUSE®Information & Culture2166-30332164-8034Latest articles in Information & Culture. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology: Protecting Knowledge by Keith Raymond Harris (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989930
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The digital information age has profoundly reshaped how societies create, share, and contest knowledge, raising urgent questions about trust, truth, and authority in public discourse. In this evolving landscape, misinformation has emerged as a complex cultural and epistemic threat, one that not only fosters false beliefs but also erodes trust and distorts perceptions of evidence. Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology: Protecting Knowledge, by Keith Raymond Harris, explores these layered dangers through a distinctive philosophical lens, arguing that responses to misinformation, including content moderation, may either effectively improve the situation or unintentionally worsen the problem. By
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallMisinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology: Protecting Knowledge by Keith Raymond Harris (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USMisinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology: Protecting Knowledge by Keith Raymond Harris (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®116562026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action by James W. Cortada (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989931
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This isn’t the first book about IBM, and it will certainly not be the last. As both a trained historian and a former senior IBM manager, James Cortada provides a unique “ground-up” perspective on IBM’s corporate culture, drawing from his extensive network of former employees and an archive of corporate memorabilia.Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action explores the core values, known as “Basic Beliefs” (57), that were shaped by IBM’s founder, Thomas Watson Sr.: “Respect for the Individual” (57), the “Best Customer Service” (57), and “Excellence in All That Is Done” (58). In 1930 Watson Sr. prided himself on the simplicity of these values: “Our policies must be shaped so that they will apply to every
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallInside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action by James W. Cortada (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USInside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action by James W. Cortada (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®89182026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America by Adrian Johns (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989932
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As I read this book, I was surveilled by a vast and shadowy array of corporations, marketing firms, tech companies, political operatives, and spy agencies that report back to various governments (not just our own). Some were merely interested in selling me stuff, others were more concerned with my politics, but they all wanted to know what I was reading and how I was reading it, and they all employed scientific apparatuses and methodologies to address that question.In The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America, Adrian Johns seeks to explain the history that brought us to this utopian/dystopian present, and he is an ideal candidate for the job. Cheerfully polymathic, he walks us through
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallThe Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America by Adrian Johns (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USThe Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America by Adrian Johns (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®96132026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06The Computer Will Take Your Call: Gendered Labor, Automation, and the Making of Digital Assistants, 1960–1975
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989933
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On a crisp fall afternoon in 1961, Dause Bibby, president of computing giant Remington Rand, unveiled the Unicall before a large crowd. Marketed as revolutionary, the Unicall answered questions posed over the telephone using a computer-generated voice “for the first time in the history of data communications.”1 Convinced he was ushering in the future, Bibby proclaimed that this talking machine would reshape American business. He was not alone. Throughout the early 1960s, Bibby and his peers imagined that, once linked to the telephone network, computer voices could handle routine tasks such as tracking inventory, logging orders, and gathering data on consumer behavior. Unfortunately, the Unicall fell short of these
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallThe Computer Will Take Your Call: Gendered Labor, Automation, and the Making of Digital Assistants, 1960–19752026-05-06text/htmlen-USThe Computer Will Take Your Call: Gendered Labor, Automation, and the Making of Digital Assistants, 1960–19752026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®902502026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s by Reem Hilu (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989934
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An invigorating exploration of the early adoption of microprocessors in domestic life, The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s, by Reem Hilu, is a welcome call to reexamine the cultural impact of technology in the 1980s. At the core of this book is the development of the concept of “companionate computing.” Hilu invites us to consider a diverse range of technologies as companionate computing, including self-assembly computer kits, spreadsheet software, alarm clocks, and coffee makers, to name a few. The book examines both the precursors to the now-booming “internet of things” and “maker culture” and the software designed to comment on and complement intimacy in heterosexual
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallThe Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s by Reem Hilu (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USThe Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s by Reem Hilu (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®103582026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06The Enemy of My Enemy: Jewish Contributions to Soviet War Crimes Investigations
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989935
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World War II transformed information into a resource like never before. Hitler’s regime pursued the “Final Solution” in the occupied USSR by forcing Jews to identify themselves through registration and incentivizing non-Jews to expose people who attempted to hide.1 After the Red Army beat back the German military this process unfolded in reverse, with Stalin’s forces seeking to discover which Soviet citizens had not lived up to rigid definitions of patriotism and resistance.2 Throughout this period, information reverberated in unexpected ways. The “nationality” category in Soviet passports made the difference between life and death in Nazi-occupied territory, while German wartime records doubled as suspect lists
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallThe Enemy of My Enemy: Jewish Contributions to Soviet War Crimes Investigations2026-05-06text/htmlen-USThe Enemy of My Enemy: Jewish Contributions to Soviet War Crimes Investigations2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®945552026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation by Peter Krapp (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989936
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Digital cultural heritage often involves archives or documentation of perceptually static artifacts such as images, data, and ebooks. Contrastingly, capturing and documenting the dynamic possibilities of digital simulations, from video games to software emulation, poses a challenge. How does one stabilize accurate representations of inherently dynamic and speculative information objects? In Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation, Peter Krapp describes simulation as a set of cultural techniques, as opposed to a form of static artifactual knowledge, framing these techniques as an emerging field of interest spanning library and information science, policy and national security, and affective interests in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallComputing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation by Peter Krapp (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USComputing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation by Peter Krapp (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®104772026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Participation in the Archive of Open Source Software: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989937
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Open source software (OSS) represents one of the most integrated and critical forms of digital infrastructure today: 96 percent of all code bases leverage open source software.1 OSS is software produced under an open source license, which allows anyone to use, repurpose, and distribute code, and prevents future iterations of the code becoming proprietary or “closed.”2 The openness and transparency provided by OSS is seen as its greatest strength; it allows for mutual knowledge production and technical peer collaboration at a revolutionary and innovative scale. This openness has been so essential to OSS’s scale, success, and impact that few have questioned it. Yet there exists a paradox of openness within OSS: Its
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallParticipation in the Archive of Open Source Software: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review2026-05-06text/htmlen-USParticipation in the Archive of Open Source Software: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®1228862026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life by Ysabel Gerrard (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989938
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Social media is destroying youth mental health. Predators lurk around the digital corners of Roblox. Instagram is driving eating disorders in young girls. Media and communication scholars have dismissed such framing as moral panics that say more about adult anxieties about technology and youth. Or, as danah boyd put it back in 2014, when it comes to social media and youth, “it’s complicated.”1To those exasperated by the catastrophizing headlines, Ysabel Gerrard’s The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life may be a refreshing antidote. Gerrard’s corrective to the sensationalizing and moralizing framing of social media is the concept of “platform paradoxes” (5). This novel framing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallThe Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life by Ysabel Gerrard (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USThe Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life by Ysabel Gerrard (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®103232026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Liberatory Librarianship: Stories of Community, Connection, and Justice edited by Brian W. Keith, Laurie Taylor, and Shamin Renwick (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989939
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Liberatory Librarianship: Stories of Community, Connection, and Justice, edited by Brian W. Keith, Laurie Taylor, and Shamin Renwick, is a wide-ranging collection that shares ways librarians can bring skills to leverage systems of support for the work of historically marginalized communities. This book offers an expansive look at both the theoretical implications of liberatory librarianship and its practical outcomes. It draws upon international inspirations and case studies, including the Caribbean librarians whose visionary leadership and community engagement inspired the collection’s editors to compile this work. This collection is aimed toward a wide audience of library professionals, including archivists and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallLiberatory Librarianship: Stories of Community, Connection, and Justice edited by Brian W. Keith, Laurie Taylor, and Shamin Renwick (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USLiberatory Librarianship: Stories of Community, Connection, and Justice edited by Brian W. Keith, Laurie Taylor, and Shamin Renwick (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®109852026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989940
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Over the last several decades, there have been countless books that claim to be “guides” of one sort or another to the technological future. Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World enters this arena with a unique voice. Delving into historical anecdotes (the emergence of the word “system,” the development of airplane navigation systems and management, and even the development of digital architecture software), Georgina Voss draws on her experience as an artist, designer, consultant, and researcher. She presents both a history and a vivid guided tour through the many technical systems that shape everyday contemporary life.Systems Ultra peels back the surface to take a deep dive into
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallSystems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USSystems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®82592026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities by Poppy Wilde (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989941
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Many digital games enable interaction with the game world through a playable character, an avatar that players navigate within the game. This virtual depiction of the player and the relationship between players’ bodies and minds and their characters has been explored from various perspectives. However, in Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities, author Poppy Wilde explores this relationship from a posthumanist perspective, offering an intriguing interpretation of critical posthumanism and how she defines it within the context of video games.First, Wilde establishes her view of posthumanism as more than an extension of the human body, a representation of it, or an augmented concept of body
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallPosthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities by Poppy Wilde (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USPosthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities by Poppy Wilde (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®97202026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation by Brooke Belisle (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989942
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Brooke Belisle begins her book Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation by defining the concept of depth as the coconstitution of both the seer and the seen, as well as of their relative positions and apartness to each other (6). Belisle uses the rest of the book—its three chapters and four philosophical deep dives, called entrelacs, “the French word that [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty uses to describe the structure of depth, usually translated into English as interlacing, interweaving, or intertwining” (6)—to build out the complexity of this definition by looking at how dimension presents itself in computer imaging, portraiture, and photogrammetry or mapping. She achieves this through a variety of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallDepth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation by Brooke Belisle (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USDepth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation by Brooke Belisle (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®98722026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations by Souvik Mukherjee (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989943
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In Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations, Dr. Souvik Mukherjee investigates and compiles the history, development, culture, and representation of video games in the Indian subcontinent, which comprises India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Mukherjee explores how the colonial and postcolonial history and politics of the region influence the adoption of video games and the communities formed around them. In doing so, Mukherjee makes an important contribution to the study of video gaming in the region, which not only is pretty sparse but also tends to focus mostly on India, as he argues (176). Mukherjee has not only built a comprehensive
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallVideogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations by Souvik Mukherjee (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USVideogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations by Souvik Mukherjee (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®96712026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History by Laura E. Helton (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989944
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History offers an introspective look into not only “thinking black” but also being Black in social, political, intellectual, historical, and contemporary Black thought. Author Laura E. Helton draws on archival documents from six main collections, crafting an ambitious book that documents the lives of African Americans who not only produced these collections but also lived them.Helton is an associate professor at the University of Delaware, holding a joint appointment in English and history, with emphases on African American studies and public humanities. Helton began the process of compiling this book during an earlier period of her
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/111/image/coversmallScattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History by Laura E. Helton (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USScattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History by Laura E. Helton (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®87292026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06