Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (#TPRC42)

This weekend I attended the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in Arlington, Virginia. I am not a policy expert nor a Continue reading →

The Prayer Nut and the Mobile Phone

I recently visited the Rijksmuseum during a trip to Amsterdam, and had the pleasure to experience the “Art is Therapy” Continue reading →

Paradigms of Accumulation & Loss in a Digital World

One phenomenon of the digital world that I think we must increasingly come to terms with is the changed and Continue reading →

Twitter’s IPO: a financial perspective on our emergent social-media world

For the past several decades, the stock market and the financial world seem to be increasingly abstracted from “the real Continue reading →

#Instalife: How Instagram redefines the meaning and practice of photography

Instagram is a social, mobile photography app. They have 100 million monthly active users, and 40 million Instagram photos are Continue reading →

The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure, Pt. 3

Please see also Part 1 and Part 2. PART 3: NGOs AND DIGITAL RIGHTS In the last section I considered Continue reading →

The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure Pt. 2

Please see the first part of this project here. PART 2: NETWORK NEUTRALITY In my last post I described the Continue reading →

The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure

We traditionally understand the world to be controlled primarily by technologies of violence and destruction. Who controls these technologies and Continue reading →