With recent revelations about the U.S. government’s PRISM program targeting top internet companies to monitor online activity, state surveillance is a matter of public discussion. PRISM is an intelligence tool that gathers data from emails, file transfers, images, chats, and search histories. Questions of civil liberties, government overreach, ethics and trust define much of the […]
We are still in the immediate wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, but it is already clear that the investigation into these attacks is taking a very different shape than the investigation into the 9/11 attacks. One of the big reasons, naturally, is the explosion of smartphone use in recent years, providing a wealth of […]
@KimDotcom: Hollywood had a plan, the copyright Taliban, hired the White House clan & John the fan, sending 72 armed men to Megauploadistan I admit: I am fascinated with Kim Dotcom. I know, this is a highly problematic confession to make. My fascination with him isn’t because of his cool last name (though it helps) […]
A few weeks ago, Torin Monahan shared a chapter from his new book with John Gilliom, SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society, published by the University of Chicago Press. (You can still read chapter 5 of the book here.) A number of Culture Digitally participants commented, and Torin had a chance to respond. Rather […]
Lee Humphreys has a new essay in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, called “Connecting, Coordinating, Cataloguing: Communicative Practices on Mobile Social Networks.” This piece will be of great interest to the Culture Digitally crowd, especially those drawn to questions of the micropractices of digital life. Here’s the abstract: This article draws on Georg […]