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40kBooks » "Algorithms Are Decision Systems" | November 2012

Book Business » "Inside the Ebook Test Kitchen" (Cover Story) | September 2012

Culture Digitally » "Conversations on Algorithms and Cultural Production" | September 2012

Future Tense - Australian Broadcasting Corporation » "The Physical Reality of Our Digital World" (on cloud computing) | July 2012

Future Tense - Australian Broadcasting Corporation » "The Algorithm" | March 2012

Spark - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation » "Algorithmic Culture" | October 2011

Washington Post » "Business Cards Thrive in a Digital Age" | October 2010

Social Media Hour » "Privacy, Transparency, and Facebook" | June 2010

Times Higher Education Supplement » "Giving It Away: A Textbook Argument" | November 2009

Los Angeles Times - Jacket Copy Blog » "Parsing the Kindle" | October 2008

Selected Speaking Engagements

Center for Humanities, Temple University | November 2012

Association for Cultural Studies Summer Institute, University of Ghent, Belgium | July 2011

American Cultures in the Digital Age Conference, Vanderbilt University | March 2011

Cooper Lecture Series, Swarthmore College | March 2010

Information Society Program, University of Illinois | February 2010

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Follow any of the links in the sidebar at right to purchase The Late Age of Print in hardcopy. The foreword, written in 2011, appears only in the physical, paperback edition of the book.

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#1 | Written by Jesse Schust about 4 months ago. Reply

Great! It worked! I downloaded it and I look forward to giving it a read. Thanks Ted!
- #2 | Written by Ted Striphas about 4 months ago. Reply
  
  Great to hear, Jesse! Enjoy the book, and thx for the mention on Facebook.
#3 | Written by Alex H. about 4 months ago. Reply

Really like the idea here. But the chances I’m going to run a downloader as an executable? Very close to zero.
- #4 | Written by Ted Striphas about 4 months ago. Reply
  
  Not exactly clear on what the issue is here, Alex. Once you tweet/post, the PDF should begin downloading immediately.
#5 | Written by RC about 4 months ago. Reply

Does paying by tweets really let some software update my profile and post tweets for me? That seems incredibly intrusive and hard to believe. Is there another explanation?
- #6 | Written by Ted Striphas about 4 months ago. Reply
  
  No—-it just utilizes the Twitter (or Facebook) API, so there’s nothing sketchy going on in the back end. It’s no different than sharing a link, really.

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