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 …

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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 …

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Draft: Revenge rating and tweak critique at photo.net

In today’s world, most anything can be rated, ranked, and liked. flickr (founded in 2004 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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I welcome any comments or feedback on my draft of Geek Knowing: From FAQ To Feminism 101:

Abstract: In addition to information sharing and helpfulness …

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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 …

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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 …

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Godwin’s feminist corollary: As an online discussion about sexism continues, the probability of a woman who speaks out being called a feminazi approaches 1 …

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