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James W. Malazita
James W. Malazita is a lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He studies the ways in which designed objects and the design process do political work, both through physical affordances and constraints as well as through the semiotic patterns and rhetorics embedded into technosocial systems through what he calls ‘Critical Platform Studies’. He received his MS in Digital Media Design and his Ph.D. in Communication, Culture, & Media, both from Drexel University. Malazita’s research and teaching have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Popular Culture Association, The New Jersey Historical Commission, Red Hat Inc., and Rensselaer’s Teaching and Learning Collaboratory.