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
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
Scholarly Communication Committee, Georgetown University | October 2009
Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa | October 2009
Honors Convocation, University of Illinois | October 2009
Last week, in a post entitled “The Book Industry’s Moneyball,” I blogged about the origins of my interest in algorithmic culture — the use of computational processes to sort, classify, and hierarchize people, places, objects, and ideas. There I discussed a study published in 1932, the so-called “Cheney Report,” which imagined a highly networked book [...]
OR, HOW TO SAVE INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES ONE E-BOOK AT A TIME Several weeks ago I mentioned the “Cultures of Books and Reading” class I’m teaching this semester at Indiana University. It’s been a blast so far. My students have had so many provocative things to say about the present and future of book culture. More [...]
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