{"id":812,"date":"2021-10-13T06:31:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2021-10-09T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T23:49:54","slug":"your-computer-is-on-fire-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Your Computer Is On Fire in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a delight to recently speak to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk\/digital-social-science\/events\/your-computer-fire-discussion-authors-mar-hicks-and-kavita-philip\">University of Edinburgh&#8217;s Centre for Data, Culture, and Society<\/a> about my new co-edited volume, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/your-computer-fire\">Your Computer Is On Fire<\/a><\/em>, with co-editor Prof. Kavita Philip. One of the most important things that I think this volume tries to do is to make topics that have for too long been seen as the purview of those inside the tech industry approachable for people outside tech, using the latest research from a variety of scholars in different fields. You can view the recorded event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk\/digital-social-science\/events\/your-computer-fire-discussion-authors-mar-hicks-and-kavita-philip\">here<\/a>, and read more about the book on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/your-computer-fire\">MIT Press website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.ed.ac.uk\/media\/1_w49v5k9y\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/EdinburghTalkSplashPage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/EdinburghTalkSplashPage.jpg 770w, https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/EdinburghTalkSplashPage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/EdinburghTalkSplashPage-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a delight to recently speak to the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s Centre for Data, Culture, and Society about my new co-edited volume, Your Computer Is On Fire, with co-editor Prof. Kavita Philip. One of the most important things that I think this volume tries to do is to make topics that have for too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}