Later this week I'll be participating on a panel of the New Media in American Literary History Interdisciplinary Symposium. I plan to talk about bibliography and bitrot.
When I began my historical study of Wikipedia I was sad to note that much early material was lost to bit rot ...
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While catching up on podcasts this weekend I was surprised that news of Popular Science "Shutting Off Our Comments" had traveled so far. On September 24, PopSci explained they were disabling comments because trolls and spambots were overwhelming their ability of "fostering lively, intellectual debate" (Labarre2013wws). They justified this decision ...
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Draft: Revenge rating and tweak critique at photo.net
read moreIn today’s world, most anything can be rated, ranked, and liked. flickr (founded in 2004), tumblr (2007), and Instagram (2010) exemplify this Web 2.0 penchant for sharing and evaluation of images among users. Yet, these sites were not the ...
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This week I'm looking forward to Jessica McKellar's visit to Communication in a Digital Age where she'll be explaining How the Internet works.
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It is easy to find arguments that social media are wonderful and that they are horrid: that they will enable new heights of connectivity and creativity or rot our brains. I've come to the opinion that while these arguments are interesting, and get a lot of attention, they are ...
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TechCrunch chose to post a short manifesto for a hacker state by the notorious troll Andrew Auernheimer (i.e., "weev," "Memphis Two", etc.). He's presently imprisoned for taking advantage of a stupidly insecure Web service of AT&T in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. (I think ...
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I welcome any comments or feedback on my draft of Geek Knowing: From FAQ To Feminism 101:
read moreAbstract: In addition to information sharing and helpfulness, geek culture has a complementary norm obliging others to educate themselves on rudimentary topics. This obligation to know is expressed by way of jargon-laden exhortations ...
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Max Klein's recent posting on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF as well as work by Nathan Matias prompted me to check if I ever published my code behind the Wikipedia vs Britannica gender comparison. Apparently I did not. However, you can now see (and use) the two ...
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Recently, some have claimed that the English Wikipedia was "segregating" female novelists.
I don't follow the complexities of WP as closely as I once did but classification is one of those seemingly innocuous, nerdy things that is more difficult and profound than one would think. Geoffrey Bowker and Susan ...
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