Last week I enjoyed ROFLCon here in Cambridge. In particular, Zittrain’s talk was enjoyable as always (i.e., interesting and funny) and the Fangirl Culture panel was relevant to my work on gender and on feedback (e.g., beta readers and “concrit”).
This fall I had the opportunity to re-teach a section of Media, Culture, & Society (MCS) and prepared a new course for Principles of Organizational Communication (OrgCom). I'd prefer to be teaching classes related to my domain (new media and digital communication), but until that happens -- fingers crossed for Fall ...
Abstract: The term infocide, and related neologisms such as cybersuicide, are identified and distinguished as a type of cyberlanguage. The complexities of infocide are then explored in open content ...
Despite my apathy toward Scientology, I viewed the recent attacks by Anonymous with a similar indifference. I don't view Anonymous' attempts to bring down Scientology websites in the same like I do earlier geek engagements with Scientology, or other actions like the anti-DMCA protests I participated in. Both Anonymous ...
In the past few months I have received invitations to join varied Google Groups. While they are no doubt easy to set up, the (ironic) thing these groups had in common was a focus on free culture (e.g., FOSS and Wikipedia). However, I have not been able to learn ...
First there was designers design. Then there was user-centered design. But even that, is now behind the times. Given open development paradigms and "extreme programming" practices, there is another approach to design, which is no "design." Instead one has frequent, incremental, releases that the user ...