Gal Ravia

So sad to hear that First Monday is closing its gates. It published some of my all-time favorite papers, including as an undergrad figuring out what internet research actually is firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... #FirstMonday

Holographic authenticities: constructing the real in the encounter with virtual Holocaust survivors While Holocaust memory presents the moral and political imperative to reckon with historical truths, digital projects of commemoration are immersed in a ‘post-truth’ landscape of suspicion over the...

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Focusing on the Dimensions in Testimony project, this article examines how visitors experience virtual Holocaust survivors as authentic. It argues that emotion and mediation together shape what feels real in digital memory.
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Holographic authenticities: constructing the real in the encounter with virtual Holocaust survivors While Holocaust memory presents the moral and political imperative to reckon with historical truths, digital projects of commemoration are immersed in a ‘post-truth’ landscape of suspicion over the...

How do users of emerging technologies make sense of their realness?

My OA paper in @icsjournal.bsky.social, “Holographic authenticities: Constructing the real in the encounter with Holocaust survivors”, explores discourses of historical and technological authenticity.

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AI Is Coming for Parents Apps are promising to ease the job of child-rearing—but they’re missing something crucial.

“Apps may promise to optimize parenting, but ultimately, they threaten to sap its intimacy & humanness,” Miranda Rake writes. “Rather than dismantling families’ to-do lists, the apps tend to encourage a do-it-all model...that constantly demands more from parents.” www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Haha, good thing I saw this before hopping on a bus. I'm doing well, and even online, it was great to see you yesterday!

So cool you're coming to SF!