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
A short piece I wrote for the journal Text and Performance Quarterly (TPQ) has just been published. It’s called “Performing Scholarly Communication,” and it’s included in a special section on “The Performative Possibilities of New Media” edited by the wonderful Desireé Rowe and Benjamin Myers. The section includes contributions by Michael LeVan and Marcyrose Chvasta, [...]
Most of you reading this blog probably don’t know that I’m Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication and Culture here at Indiana University. What that means is that I’m knee-deep in graduate admissions files right now; what that also means is that I don’t have quite as much time for blogging as [...]
I’m about the enter the final week of my undergraduate “Cultures of Books and Reading” class here at Indiana University. I’ll be sad to see it go. Not only has the group been excellent this semester, but I’ve learned so much about how my students are negotiating this protracted and profound moment of transition in [...]
One of the recurrent themes you’ll find here on the Late Age of Print blog is the “end of the book.” Usually when I raise this I’m talking about printed books and the relationship they share to e-readers and other forms of digital technology. And usually when I go down that road, I end up [...]
Just before Christmas I blogged here about the closing of the Borders Bookstore here in my home community of Bloomington, Indiana. Friday, January 7, 2011 was the store’s final day of operation. I visited it for the last time on Wednesday, January 5th and snapped a few pictures. Even for those of you who may [...]
Since the New Year is always a time for endings and beginnings, I thought I’d share an image I snapped recently at the Monroe County Public Library here in Bloomington, Indiana. It’s of two old library check-out cards — the type that, when I was young, used to be slipped into the front covers of [...]
Earlier this summer Desiree Rowe and Ben Myers, whose podcast The Critical Lede I cannot say enough good things about, invited me to contribute to a journal forum they’re editing on “The Performative Possibilities of New Media.” Given my interest in the politics of scholarly communication, I immediately jumped at the chance to participate. Composing [...]
From the annals of VERY BAD IDEAS comes this story in today’s Boston Globe. Cushing Academy, a prep school located in western Massachusetts, has decided to dispense with its library of printed books — more than 20,000 volumes in all — and switch over entirely to digital media resources. The change was prompted in no [...]
First it was the cola wars. Now, it’s the e-book wars. At this past weekend’s book industry trade show, BookExpo America, Google announced that it will begin selling digital book content in the near future. According to this article in today’s New York Times, the search engine giant has the backing of major players in [...]
On Monday Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled version 2.0 of its popular e-reading device, Kindle, which the company will release to the public on February 24th. The price is $359. As with most things Amazon, the reaction thus far has been mixed. Some see Kindle 2 as a great leap forward for e-reading (mostly Bezos here), [...]
Recent Comments