In the first Ro15oH post, I introduced the idea that Diablo (taken as a kind of 15-year whole) offers a productive lens through which to think about shifting modes of media practice. While I indexed a conversation over Facebook between myself and old friends on the topic, it was actually the End User License Agreements […]
Culture Digitally the Podcast Episode 2: Conversations on Epistemology and Expertise
Hello everyone. We have a new episode of Culture Digitally the Podcast. It’s the second installment in a series that documents conversations among digital media scholars on issues relevant to the study of culture, digital media and technology. The discussion format is open and gives our readers the chance to hear our contributors thinking aloud. […]
A Tale of Two Covers: Copyright and the Obama Campaign
My book, Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama, was just published in the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series edited by Andrew Chadwick. This was going to be the cover of the book, until the 2012 Obama campaign denied my request to use a screenshot from the […]
A Response to “Engendering Change?”
I would like to thank Christine Dunbar-Hester and Gabriella Coleman for taking the time to read and comment on my recent piece in New Media and Society. I suspect that all three of us would agree that gender and technology is never a “done deal,” and that this is largely a good thing both politically […]
Engendering Change? Gender Advocacy in Open Source
The numbers of women in the field of computer science are dismal and even worse in the arena of FLOSS; a widely-cited study showed that only 1.5% of FLOSS practitioners were women (as compared with 28% in proprietary software).[1] As scholars of the ethics and politics of computing, we are committed to generating data and […]