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Originally from the Bay Area, Emilie Grybos is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emilie graduated from Lafayette College where she earned her bachelor's degree with honors in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Women's and Gender Studies. Her undergraudate studies scaffolded her interests from the physical layer to the application layer to a human-based one, where cultural values become embodied within larger systems of power. She then went on to spend four years at Intel in a wireless standards and research & development/prototyping team working on 5G technology.
Informed by this background, her ongoing research follows two lines of inquiry. First, how sociotechnical imaginaries co-construct and justify the ideological claims of Silicon Valley's monolithic corporations, the mythologized technologists, and their commodified technologies. She aims in this work to take a feminist lens to unpack how patriarchal systems and "meritocratic" values calcify a vision for democracy in the digital society that is maintained by its contradictions rather than in spite of them.
Second, she's interested in how the public performance and discourse of cybersecurity within the United States challenges the conceptualization of the "homeland" and geographical notions of borders, particularly given the role of the liberal democratic state that prioritizes privatizatio nand commercialization of the security apparatus. Particularly at sites of infrastructural failure, cybersecurity is a high-stakes area for the state, private technology corporations, and individuals. In her work, she aims to explore how these tensions in conceptualizing and implementing cybersecurity are sutured over through shared imaginaries, which are illustrative of the American liberal democracy that perpetuates the idea of freedom, yet built upon logics of control. |
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