Media can reinforce and support agencies of socialization and agents of control – such as parents, educators, the state. At the same time, media can be viewed as potentially disrupting, undermining or otherwise threatening the established way of doing things in society. This fundamental premise – outlined most clearly in Denis McQuail’s unparalleled work on […]
I’ve been quite interested in the kerfuffle that Ubuntu has taken since the introduction of Unity. To put it mildly, it’s been controversial. Before I start with my observations, I should make a disclosure of why I am so interested in the commotion. First and foremost, you may have noticed that the fonts we use here at […]
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, […]