Author: stephjordan

Research consultant, community organizer and educator in environmental justice and tech advocacy.

“What People Talk About When They Talk About Diversity” AAAS

Steinhardt, S.B. What People Talk About When They Talk About Diversity Presenter on the panel “It’s Time for a Feminist Agenda for Science Communication” at the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS ‘19) Washington, D.C. – February 14, 2019

Instructor, MSU Media and Information, MI401: Cyborgs and AI

Instructor Michigan State University Department of Media and Information MI401: Information and Society Special Topics: Cyborgs and AI Offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023 (as Lyman Briggs capstone course), Fall 2024

DJ

I have been on the radio and DJ’ed parties for most of my adult life. Before pandemic I was a regular DJ at the Outer Limits Lounge in Hamtramck, MI, for DENIM. Stay tuned for a triumphant return in 2025! For many years, I was involved in a special station, WRFI Ithaca Community Radio as…

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Guest Lecture, “Ethnography” Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs LB322 Technology & Culture

January 25, 2018 Guest Lecturer Michigan State University Lyman Briggs LB322 Technology & Culture Instructor: Isaac Record This introduction included a number of exercises to engage students primarily coming from the hard sciences in performing qualitative ethnographic work that might benefit the design of their future laboratory spaces, Makerspace and classrooms. Students were asked to…

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Zines

I believe in and deeply care about independently published zines and fanzines and have been contributing to and creating zines since I was a teenager writing about intellectual property and fair use. Now my contributions range across tech, feminism, punk and many other topics. Here are some recent highlights: The Moon Has Moved (2024) by…

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DIY Shows

For many years I booked and hosted punk and DIY shows, largely in basements, warehouses, galleries and small all-ages venues. In the more distant past I was also involved in large-scale music event planning through various Rutgers University programs including as chair of the Rutgers College Program Council for Music and through Concerts East in…

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Python/Django

I worked for many years in industry designing and implementing administrative and content management systems for editorial web purposes using Django/Python and Java in a Linux environment with Javscript/jQuery/Ajax, HTML, CSS, Apache and MySQL.

Reflections on 5 Years of Ethnography Around the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Oceanography Magazine.

Reflections on 5 Years of Ethnography Around the Ocean Observatories Initiative Forthcoming (2018) feature for a Special Issue of Oceanography Magazine Stephanie B. Steinhardt Media and Information Michigan State University Oceanographers often equate their next research venture to “dreaming up” (participant quotation) or to the start of their ideas as “not fettered by reality” (Robbins,…

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Instructor, MSU Media and Information, MI401: Information and Society

Instructor Michigan State University Department of Media and Information MI401: Information and Society Offered: Spring 2018 Technologies capture both the stuff of our boring daily routines and of our imaginations, from space exploration to our eating habits. Some technologies are introduced as a seemingly logical extension of trends within the industrialized world, while others emerge,…

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