My article "The Politics of 'Platforms'" was accepted for publication in New Media & Society, and is set to appear in early 2010. Click the title to download a pre-print copy of your very own.
Wired Shut was also awarded the Book Award for 2009 by the Communication and Information Technologies division of the American Sociological Association (ICA). More and more good company.
Wired Shut was awarded Outstanding Book of 2009 by the International Communication Association (ICA). This puts me in very good company.
Our daughter, Cleo, was born January 28th, 2009. She's stunning. I swear, and I'm not biased. Unbelievable.
Wired Shut was recently reviewed in Convergence by Robert Jewitt, in Cultural Sociology by Tim Jordan, and in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology by Lisa Ennis. Its great to see it appear in journals I respect and aspire to.
There is now a distance learning module for Wired Shut hosted by Cornell University, part of their Cybertower program. Register for free, and you can enjoy five video lectures of me surveying some of the arguments in the book, find pointers to related resources online, and even discuss the topic with me and with other users. For added fun, see if you can spot the printed notes sitting on the open laptop next to me. Analog beats digital.
My article "Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns" was accepted for publication in Communication, Culture, & Critique, and is set to appear in August. You can email me for a copy if you're interested.
