A draft of my paper on how newcomers are socialized into open technical communities is now available. Before I could consider the “socialization features” I …

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In the Sound Factory episode of MTV’s True Life a Long Island bartender wanted to become a Manhattan bartender as his first step towards …

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Today I attended two interesting media policy talks. The first was by Sarah Deutsch of Verizon discussing the legal cases against them for (rightfully) withholding …

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At the beginning of the year I mentioned how excited I was to find the book Beyond Majority Rule: Voteless Decisions in the Religious Society …

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In a class yesterday, someone pulled a “that’s basic Kuhn” on me. Granted, I prefaced my first comment to the class in a somewhat …

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People often expect a media to engender community: “I’m blogging but not getting enough comments!”, or “if I put up a Wiki, they will …

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If we do live in a small world (6-degress of seperation), and the government is watching everything we do (Total Information Awareness), they might note …

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In my socialization class we’ve been considering the role of class, race, and gender in reproducing social structures, including those that aren’t as …

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Frank and Cooks’ The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us first introduced me to …

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In 1984 Umberto Eco, a semiotician and author of the popular book and film Name of the Rose, wrote an essay entitled A Guide to …

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