Anyone who has read my blog long knows that I am not big on counting things. Some of it is that I have math anxiety — a serious vulnerability for someone who spent the first 20 years of his career at MIT! Some of it is that I think people […]
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Earlier this fall, the French cultural theory magazine, Poli, ran an extensive interview with me conducted by Maxime Cervulle. The interview explored a range of topics surrounding the cultural politics of participatory culture and web 2.0, specifically addressing concerns raised by European intellectuals about some of the themes I explored […]
The following account will appear later this month in an issue of In Media Res, the newsletter of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. It was written by Audubon Dogherty, one of the graduate students I am working with this year. She is affiliated with the Center for Future Civic Media, […]
The following account will appear later this month in an issue of In Media Res, the newsletter of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. It was written by Audubon Dogherty, one of the graduate students I am working with this year. She is affiliated with the Center for Future Civic Media, […]
Last fall, I spoke at the University of Oregon about the role of popular and participatory culture in the American Presidential campaign. Many of the ideas in that talk had taken shape through this blog. For example, here’s a post which looked at the role of photoshop mash-ups in shaping […]