[Note: This is a lightly edited re-post of a blog-post originally published on Work in Progress, a public sociology blog created by the American Sociological Association to disseminate research results. It summarizes findings from “Engineering a platform: The construction of interfaces, users, organizational roles, and the division of labor” in New Media and Society, first published online in […]
I’m excited to announce the publication of a special issue of Digital Journalism that I guest-edited around the theme “Journalism in an Era of Big Data: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques.” I was fortunate to work with a terrific set of contributors. Their work sheds important light on the implications of data and algorithms, computation and quantification, for journalism as practice and […]
At the invitation of Culture Digitally and with the permission of my publisher, MIT Press, I am thrilled to provide the introduction of my just-out book, Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism. (With bonus pictures not in the book!) Though the book is centered on FM radio activism, issues of digitality loom large. […]
Hello everyone. We have a new episode of Culture Digitally the Podcast. It’s the second installment in a series that documents conversations among digital media scholars on issues relevant to the study of culture, digital media and technology. The discussion format is open and gives our readers the chance to hear our contributors thinking aloud. […]
Culture Digitally is now a year old, and we are extremely grateful to the initial cadre of participants, the guest bloggers, and all of the readers that have helped make it a vibrant place for the circulation of ideas and research around digital cultural production. As part of the NSF award that supports Culture Digitally, […]