Jaron Lanier, in the latest contribution to the public conversation about how we live with technology, blames the Internet for the fall of the middle class. Only the problem is he’s wrong. In his new book Who Owns the Future? Lanier argues that the information economy in general and network technologies in particular are to […]
Big Data and journalism: a call for papers
Big Data, in the broadest sense, has become a rich site of research interest across the scholarly disciplines. I’m happy to share with the Culture Digitally community this call for papers for a special issue of Digital Journalism that I’m editing around the subject of Big Data and journalism. Questions? Drop them in the comments […]
Podcast: Hector Postigo’s Digital Rights Movement
The Virtual Policy Network interviewed Hector Postigo about his recent book Digital Rights Movement. You can listen to the show here: SCT 13: The Digital Rights Movement
On Streeter’s The Net Effect: A Culture Digitally Dialogue
In this Culture Digitally dialogue, we discuss Thomas Streeter’s book The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (New York University Press 2011), part of the “Critical Cultural Communication” series edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kent A. Ono. This dialogue emerged out of an Author-meets-Critics session at the Eastern Sociological Society Meetings in Boston in […]
World Copyright Day! Hector Postigo’s Q and A with MIT Press.
The Q & A below was listed today on the MIT Press Blog. I’ve cross-posted it below for our readers. Today is World Copyright Day. Hector Postigo, author of The Digital Rights Movement, weighs in with a Q & A. Q: What sparked your interest in the “digital rights movement,” and how did you come up […]