Fenwick McKelvey

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University

mckelveyf@gmail.com

The History of the Pirate Bay through its Home Page

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The Pirate Bay as much as it tries to decentralize depends on attention concentrated on its home page. My latest article, We Like Copies, But Don’t Let the Others Fool You, explores the implications of this tension to the group and to Hacktivism. The group struggles to realized the political potential of decentralized networks while […]

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We are what we tweet: The Problem with a Big Data World when Everything You Say is Data Mined

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This post was written by: Fenwick McKelvey, Matthew Tiessen & Luke Simcoe Are we living in a simulated “reality”? Although a work of science fiction from 1964, the book Simulacron-3 asks a question relevant to our digitally-enabled world. The city where the book takes its name perturbs its inhabitants. Over the course of the novel, […]

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