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Dr. Jonathan Cohn
Tech Writer | Developer | Academic

Tech/UX Writer with 15 years of experience as an English and Digital Culture professor. Published author of newspaper articles, interviews, 2 books, a dozen academic articles, and many conference presentations. Passionate about building a more creative, collaborative, ethical, and interesting tech culture.

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"Algorithmic recommendations aren’t politically neutral. But, as Cohn details in this illuminating book, nor is their power absolute. The Burden of Choice is a primer on algorithmic dissidence, couched in a history of computational decision making."

--Ted Striphas, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control

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...This excellent collection pulls together an impressive array of approaches to this concept that will give readers a broad but detailed look at how ostensibly challenging material was made palatable on television.

--Derek Kompare, Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries

Fullstack Coding Projects

API Calls
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Bus Routes

Map Animation and Style Experiments
Tracking
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Eye Movement

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More Projects
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Projects

Research and Reporting

Digital Culture
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The Metaverse

Or, how to fit the universe in a cell
AI Culture
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EugenicTech

Three Perspectives On the (B)anality of AI
AI Art
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The Scientist of the Holy Ghost

What AI's art reveals about itself
AI Ethics
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Ethics Bug Bounties

AI Ethics in Practice
AI Ethics
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Google

and Algorithmic Inequities
More Research
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ResearchGate

Technical Writing & Instructional Design:

Lead Help System Management
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Empower PLM

Vuepress Markdown Help System and Release Notes
DITA | SaaS
Arena PLM Platform website
Enterprise PLM/QMS

Helping companies manufacture more efficient, safe, and sustainable products.
Instructional Design
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AI Ethics @ Google

Internal Self-Guided Courses
HigherEd
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Queer Video Games Syllabus

History | Analysis | Production
Curriculum Design
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ResearchGate