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David A. Banks

is a PhD student in science and technology studies and an editor for Cyborgology. He cares about public space, digital networks, and collaborative design.

Essays & Reviews

Podcast Out

By David A. BanksDecember 13, 2016
A sense of ennui and overdetermination binds the audience of NPR podcasts together in a bloc of obnoxious explainerism.
Essays & Reviews

Community Slander

By David A. BanksApril 7, 2015
Anonymity online may engender individual harassment, but voting and ranking in apps allows groups to harass groups
Essays & Reviews

Naming Nameless

By David A. BanksNovember 18, 2014
Gabriella Coleman’s history of the Anonymous collective is as much about her complicity in the group’s attention-seeking tactics as it is about the group itself.
Essays & Reviews

Vapor Eyes

By David A. BanksJune 2, 2014
E-cigarettes are social consumption, not private vice. They keep us addicted not so much to nicotine as to each other
Essays & Reviews

Very Serious Populists

By David A. BanksDecember 20, 2013
The point of voting systems is not to highlight the best content but to build and maintain a hegemonic discourse
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