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My research focuses on new digital media and cultural production both large and small. My endeavors have centered on 2 areas of inquiry within cultural production. The first interrogates notions of value, participation, and “free” labor on the internet. I have looked at a number of “sites” as case studies to ask: what kinds of value does the work of fan communities, volunteers and others add to commercial enterprises? What are their (industry and user) norms, practices and values? And how do they engage with technologies/laws/policies that afford or frustrate participation? I was one of the first researchers to study video game fan communities that make valuable modifications to popular PC games (modders), for example, and have written on the history of AOL volunteer communities and their labor disputes. My second line of research focuses on technologically mediated activism. I interrogate this topic generally by asking how technological resistance structures activism in social movements? I am concerned with how ICTs, hacks, workarounds and other circumvention and organization measures might impact the role of individuals and organizations bent on social change. I’m a fan of Jennifer Earl's work on that topic. My own contributions in that vein have centered on the digital rights or free culture movement and their use of technological measures as a form of activism. My book on that topic just came out from MIT Press. As I look forward to the next few years I’m hoping to continue looking into technology and activism. Currently I’m conducting research on Web 2.0 and social change organizations, for example. I’m doing that with Carla Ilten from the Technical University of Berlin who now a graduate student on sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago . Recently, I’ve started thinking about privacy and participation in web platforms. I’ve just wrapped up research on the US security/privacy industry and its branding and marketing practices. That project was funded by the European Commission 7th Programme Framework. My collaborators and I recently published a co-edited a volume on that topic. It’s available from Palgrave Macmillan Press.
The Q & A below was listed today on the MIT Press Blog. I’ve cross-posted it below for our readers. Today is World Copyright Day. Hector Postigo, author of The Digital Rights Movement, weighs in with a Q & A. Q: … Continue reading →
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The Podcast Podcast: Play in new window | Download The Dialogue Brooke Erin Duffy and Alice Marwick gave a Plenary Panel Lecture at Temple University. Following up on their panel on “Fashion and Celebrity 2.0: Reconciling Discourses of Authenticity … Continue reading →
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This year I’m serving as the Program Chair for Association of Internet Researchers’ annual meeting to be held in Denver Co, USA. It’s my pleasure to announce AoIR 14’s Keynote Speaker and Plenary Panel Speakers, some of which are contributors … Continue reading →
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Culture Digitally contributor Daren Brabham has accepted an assistant professor position in the public relations group at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at University of Southern California. He returns to his roots in the West and joins a … Continue reading →
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Culture Digitally and Temple’s School of Media and Communication are co-sponsoring an invited talk with two of our guest contributors, Alice Marwick and Brooke Duffy. Below are links to their webpages and abstracts. Talk takes place Friday Feb 22nd at … Continue reading →
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