I’m pleased to announce the publication of SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society and am delighted to be able to share a sample chapter with the Culture Digitally community. While there are lots of good research monographs on surveillance studies, our objective was to write a fun introductory book with lots of examples and […]
Culture Digitally the Podcast Episode 4: Conversations on Game Studies, Game Development and the Construction of Liesure and Work
Hello everyone. We have a new episode of Culture Digitally the Podcast. It’s our 4th installment in a series that documents conversations among digital media scholars on issues relevant to the study of culture, digital media and technology. As previously the discussion format is open and gives our readers the chance to hear our contributors […]
A Samoan Hoax
Manti Te’o has been in the news a lot these past few days because Notre Dame’s star linebacker and inspirational leader was apparently pranked. He had captured football fans’ hearts throughout the season, leading his team to an undefeated record and to the national championship game despite the fact that his grandmother and his girlfriend […]
Trying to make sense of the state response to “hackers”
Like many people, I spent all weekend reading every post and every news story about Aaron Swartz—whom I did not know, but whose work I respected. This weekend was the anniversaries of the deaths of two very dear family members as well, and so the news of his death and reading the sometimes too heartbreaking […]
Please… title this book!
After nearly two years’ work, I am ready to turn in the anthology I’ve been co-editing (with Pablo Boczkowski and Kirsten Foot). I’m extremely proud of it, and hope it will be useful to young scholars who work on issues around media, technology, society, and culture. The essays are in, proofed, corrected, lined up. The […]