[UWcinema] [Cmsfaculty] Diana Ruiz on AI and Alligator Alcatraz

[UW Cinema Studies List via Uwcinema]

Incredible piece! Also note that our own Golden Owens just published a
brilliant article in Flow last month or so --
https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/10/robotic-slaves-and-where-to-find-them-racialized-servitude-in-the-jetsonsgolden-m-owens-university-of-washington/
-- UW CMS flows strong in *Flow!*

On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM Jennifer Bean via Cmsfaculty <
cmsfaculty at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> CMS Friends— I just came across this wonderful piece by our very own Diana

> Ruiz, published last week in the latest issue of *Flow*, and am compelled

> to share.  0n “swamp slop and fake moats”… brilliant and terrifying all at

> once.  Hats off to Diana…. JB

>

> Swamp Slop and Fake Moats: On the AI Mediation of Alligator AlcatrazDiana

> Flores Ruiz / University of Washington – Flow

> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/12/swamp-slop-ai/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!iumGL9Al18iNP8wMb_l0-SjZG5i99pZfQcyaAQS1wLqWY5EpAmKy9F9VMvUnQ6QT88MUBWdr3MocS6pXyfiR2IrL27E$>

> flowjournal.org

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> Jennifer M. Bean

> Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies

> University of Washington, Seattle

> Editor-in-Chief, *Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal*

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