Woman standing on a boat and looking out over a swamp, photo credit Grant Bemis

Center on Digital Culture and Society

The Digital Radical

The Digital Radical is an online publication of the Center on Digital Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

It features stories of people’s radical relationships to digital technologies. These stories help us to reimagine our technological futures by showing the diverse ways of living with (or without) digital technologies. We welcome submissions from all of you. View submission guidelines.

Photo Credit (top image): Grant Bemis

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Preface by Guobin Yang, Director

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Stories of Digital Radicals

Woman in a boat holding an underwater research device

Drone Radicals: An Interview with Drone Oceanographer Dr. Vanessa Pirotta

Adam Fish

People walking through a field of crops

Invited and Implicated: Toward Critical Reflexivity in Non-fiction VR

Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz and Elizabeth (Liz) Miller

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THE BADASS ARMY: A Radical Response to Cyber-Sexual Harassment

Sophie Maddocks

Person walking down empty street in Wuhan, China

The Digital Radicals of Wuhan

Guobin Yang

Ugandan woman being escorted out of a building with female prison guards

Digital Radical Rudeness: The Story of Stella Nyanzi

Toussaint Nothias & Rosebell Kagumire

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An Urban Outcast on the Digital–Legal Frontier: The Technical Litigation of J.

Noah McClain

Man in Alaskan landscape holding puppies

A Digital Radical in the Alaskan Wild

Jacob Gursky

Smiling Ugandan woman sitting between two female prison guards

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