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When I was in graduate school in STS we read Langdon Winner’s Do Artifacts Have Politics, an excerpt from his book, The Whale and The Reactor. If you’re not familiar with it, the piece is often remembered for its analysis of bridges, or more accurately overpasses along the way to Jones Beach NY. Langdon’s telling […]
As a bookend to the podcast that T.L. Taylor and Greg Lastowka were kind enough to participate in, I’m posting this bit of thinking on the legal issues that continue to plague those of us thinking about cultural production in the digital age. It’s also a bit of an emerging dialogue. See Greg […]
In this episode of Culture Digitally the Podcast, MIT’s TL Taylor and Rutgers Law School’a Greg Lastowka share their insights into emergent video game culture practices that may run aground on copyright law. Greg talks about his recent NSF funded work surveying user generated content (UGC) in video games and TL discusses emergent video gameplay […]
IR14, the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers in Denver CO USA, is upon us and, as you know, I was honored to serve as Chair of the Conference Theme, Keynote and Plenary Organization as well as early program development. AoIR is one of the most productive communities of scholars researching everything one […]
Some contributors to Culture Digitally have a busy week starting October 7th! On October 8th Microsoft Research New England is hosting its 5th Anniversary Symposium to commemorate its founding in 2008. As part of this event former and existing visiting researchers have been asked to attend and some will present their research. From Culture Digitally, […]