Moira weigel biography of mahatma
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Moira Weigel.
Moira Weigel, a Data & Society affiliate, is a scholar and founding editor of Logic magazine. Originally trained in modern languages, including German and Mandarin Chinese, she now studies digital media in a global context.
Her current research focuses on transnational e-commerce entrepreneurs operating primarily between China and the US. She has a strong secondary focus on the history of critical theory, particularly as it has been taken up by technologists.
Weigel’s first book, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016), countered widespread claims that the rise of mobile phones and social media were bringing about the “death of romance,” showing that modern courtship practices have consistently co-evolved with consumer capitalism and other forms of gendered work.
The book has been translated into six languages and appeared in dozens of national and international outlets. Her second book, co-edited with Ben Tarnoff, is Voices from the Val