In the spirit of understanding “social and professional imaginaries,” here’s a link to a short piece I did on In These Times, “Why, Really, Do We Love Steve Jobs?” The punchline is that neither Benjamin Franklin nor Thomas Edison (two other mythic capitalist figures) would have recommended dropping out of college, taking LSD, and backpacking […]
I’ll admit it, I have one. A pile of articles I’ve collected, and am really, really meaning to read. Not just that, but some of them I know are going to be useful, important to my work, even from the abstract. A few I’m nearly embarrassed that I haven’t read yet. One or two of […]
I’m cross-posting this from Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, where I’m affiliated and for which I blog on occasion. This piece reflects some emerging threads from research that I’ve been conducting — in collaboration with Nikki Usher (a professor at GWU) — on the nature of journalism’s growing connection to hacker culture, open-source software, DIY making, […]
[Cross Posted from my Personal Blog] I’ve clicked a cow. Twice. One Kotaku article and a game designer’s reflections on that article got me to thinking about Ian Bogost’s Cow Clicker, again. I first clicked a cow when I added Cow Clicker as a Facebook application. I’m sure Ian could even tell me the day […]