[SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" claimant to run for U.S. Senate -- alternative facts about technology and democracy collide

Mon Sep 18 10:59:52 PDT 2017

It’s a “late entry” but I would include Ed Zschau as a techie who later ran for the House of Representatives and won; later for the Senate and narrowly lost; and later as VP  for a third party 

From: Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of "NOVEMBER, JOSEPH" <NOVEMBER at mailbox.sc.edu>
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 10:40 AM
To: "Sarah T. Roberts" <sarah.roberts at ucla.edu>, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu>
Cc: "members at sigcis.org" <members at sigcis.org>
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" claimant to run for U.S. Senate -- alternative facts about technology and democracy collide

I wonder if "former video game developer" Curt Schilling is still planning to run against Warren.  Would Schilling and Ayyadurai face each other in a primary race?

Joe

Joseph November
Associate Professor and McCausland Fellow
Department of History
University of South Carolina
223 Gambrell Hall
Columbia, SC 29208
november at sc.edu

From: Members [members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org] on behalf of Sarah T. Roberts [sarah.roberts at ucla.edu]
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 12:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Email "inventor" claimant to run for U.S. Senate -- alternative facts about technology and democracy collide

- Carly Fiorina, folks. She just spoke at CPAC. 

- Meg Whitman, eBay. Lost CA gubernatorial election. 

Both Republicans. Both lost (obviously). 

Any chance we could discuss this Ayyadurai matter at the meeting next month?

Guy's playing the long game, obviously. 

With thanks,

Sarah

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S a r a h  T.  R o b e r t s,  P h. D.

Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
https://is.gseis.ucla.edu/

Blogging periodically at
http://illusionofvolition.com

On Feb 25, 2017, at 9:18 AM, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu> wrote:

Thanks for this suggestion, Debbie. I will look into this Massie fellow with great interest -- it would be fascinating to see how a technology background would shape an incredibly retail politics level of campaigning like for the House. 

Thanks,

Andrew

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Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Deborah Douglas <ddouglas at mit.edu> wrote:

Depending on how liberal a definition of software industry one uses, another example is:

Tom Massie, now a Representative from Kentucky, invented PHANTOM while at MIT (he won the Lemelson Student Prize for this) and founded SensAbleTechnologies.  

http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/thomas-massie

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/05/17/from-mit-entrepreneur-to-tea-party-leader-the-thomas-massie-story/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/11/meet-representative-thomas-massie-constitutional-conservative-mit-pedigree

https://massie.house.gov/about

Debbie Douglas

On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:41 AM, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu>

 wrote:

As a follow up to Ayyadurai's candidacy  -- have there been any previous instances of people who identify with the software industry running for major political office in the United states or internationally? 

--Andrew

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Andrew Meade McGee
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu> wrote:

Continuing with the ongoing saga of V. A. Shiva and his claims regarding the invention of e-mail, that gentleman has just announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. 

https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/835420061993218048

As several SIGCIS contributors noted earlier this month, this nicely parallels the upcoming SHOT themes of technology and democracy. "Alternate facts" about the history of technology will play a major public element of this campaign next year. 

--Andrew

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