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
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
After having spent the last five weeks blogging about about algorithmic culture, I figured both you and I deserved a change of pace. I’d like to share some new research of mine that was just published in a free, Open Access periodical called The International Journal of Communication. My piece is called “The Visible College.” [...]
You may remember back in March my announcing that The Late Age of Print was available on the document sharing site, Scribd. I was excited to see it there for many reasons, chief among them the Creative Commons license I’d negotiated with my publisher, Columbia University Press, which provides for the free circulation and transformation [...]
Wow! I’m happy to report that my home discipline, communication, is finally making some strides in terms of bringing its book and journal publishing policies into the 21st century. Last week, the International Communication Association (ICA), in Conjunction with American University’s Center for Social Media, released its Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for [...]
My latest essay, “Acknowledged Goods: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Academic Journal Publishing,” is now out in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 7(1) (March 2010), pp. 3-25. In my opinion, it’s probably the single most important journal essay I’ve published to date. Here’s the abstract: This essay explores the changing context of academic journal publishing [...]
On February 10, 2010, a German court began what may well be the start of the book industry equivalent of the dismantling of Napster. Earlier that month, six global publishing firms — John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, Reed Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and Pearson — filed suit against RapidShare, seeking an injunction against and damages [...]
On the heels of my previous post, concerning a 2000 copyright infringement suit brought against author J. K. Rowling, comes news of new allegations that the Harry Potter scribe may have lifted material from a fellow writer. The author in question, the late Adrian Jacobs, penned a little-known 40-page children’s book back in 1987 — [...]
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