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
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
It’s finally happened, at long last: scent has been brought to the world of audiovisual media. But it’s not television or movies leading the way. It’s books — or rather, e-books. Here’s the lowdown. DuroSport Electronics, which, as far as I can tell, is a legitimate if little-known manufacturer of e-gadgets, has decided to branch [...]
One of the defining attributes of the late age of print is the erosion of old publishing certainties. Among them is the notion that the free circulation of book content leads inevitably to lost sales. Another is the belief that strong, proprietary systems are the best way for publishers and authors to secure value in [...]
My first interview about The Late Age of Print is now up on Scott Esposito’s wonderful blog, Conversational Reading. You can find the full text of the conversation here. Scott not only asks smart questions that cystalize key themes from Late Age, but he also presses me to elaborate on some of the more controversial [...]
I’d been planning on posting installment three of my “What the Publishing Industry Can Learn” series, on Netflix. I’ve decided to postpone it until later in the week, however, given the thoughtful responses over on Conversational Reading and The Reading Experience to installment one, on The Da Vinci Code. I argued that the publishing industry [...]
This blog is a companion to my book, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control, which will be published in March 2009 by Columbia University Press. You can pre-order the book on the Press’ website or through Amazon.com. The Late Age of Print blog is currently under construction. You can [...]
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