It is election season, and the stories of technological innovations being game changers are upon us. Many of these accounts are articulating the technological sublime around the Obama campaign’s data practices. This sublime response is marked by the wonder, and dread, towards the technological dazzle that seemingly has the power to reinvigorate the incumbent’s supporter base. […]
Julie Cohen recently published her book Configuring the Networked Self with Yale University Press. It’s a great synthesis of copyright and privacy policy situated in a varied number of literatures. Drawing on disciplines such as STS and cultural studies, she makes compelling connections between the two policy domains and questions traditional epistemological perspectives on them. […]
As the red carpets, champagne flutes, and stressed out assistants are rolled, boxed, and…well, rolled…from the Grammys to the Academy Awards, it might be a good time to reflect on our award culture. I am particularly interested in our propensity to pile awards upon those whom we’ve already rewarded. For example, at the Grammys, the […]
[Cross Posted on my Personal Blog] It has been a strange couple of days in #GAMEDEV land. For those that haven’t followed Double Fine’s Adventure on KickStarter, now would be a good time to start. The short story is that a small studio run by a game development luminary employing other game development legends managed […]
The venerable Ladies’ Home Journal recently announced a noteworthy shift in its approach to content creation and distribution: beginning with the March 2012 issue, the readers will provide much of the content for the print magazine. Attributing this change to research on the magazine’s readers, LHJ editor-in-chief Sally Lee noted, “Usually content creation begins with […]