As is becoming increasingly common, the Consumer Electronics Show has sent a tidal wave of news stories and press releases roaring into my RSS reader, full of information about the latest inventions aimed at changing the way we watch television and online video. Three short years ago, such news was scant. In 2009, Brad Stone […]
I was interviewed by the NPR program To The Best Of Our Knowledge, for a program on trends. It just went up, if you want to take a listen: “What’s Hot and Why Not?” Mine is the first segment. Also pretty cool that they paired me with Grant McCracken, Butch Vig, and Dr Seuss! This was […]
I’m currently working on a book with my adviser, Serge Proulx (UQAM), and Lorna Heaton (UdeM) about social media, its challenge for ethics, research and communication. And the last thing on my ‘to do’ list before Christmas break is to write the introduction for the book. The funny thing is, I’ve been working on that […]
In a previous post, I wrote about the organizational and institutional dynamics that shaped what happened to Obama’s “online army” in the years after the 2008 election. I follow up on that post here, presenting in-progress work that addresses the transition from online campaigning to governance. A number of Obama’s former staffers whom I interviewed […]
[Cross-posted at Digital Culture at KCL] I’ve been in an online gaming guild for over ten years. My very first guild was in Dark Age of Camelot and across a few guilds in that virtual space we got to know a lot of people, who then joined the same guild when World of Warcraft was […]