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 […]
“Anon hackers are ‘criminals’ in so far as any hacker has inevitably broken a host of laws; some individuals involved may also have a criminal history. And yet most hackers either implicitly or explicitly have critiques of the laws they are willing to transgress. Thus, the analyst must provide some account of the way that […]
I just added several relevant conferences to our Events Calendar, including some fast-approaching submission deadlines. Here’s the brief info, check the calendar and the links for more: Marxism and New Media (Durham, NC) Jan 20-21, 2012 250-500 word abstract due Oct 30 Mobilities (Raleigh, NC) March 16-18, 2012 800 word abstract due Oct 30 Digital […]