Delighted to be joining the editorial board of an exciting new journal, Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture & Society. You may have seen a special issue of Information & Culture that I helped edit and contributed to: Guest Editor: Haigh, T., Russell, A. and Dutton, W. H. (2015) (eds), ‘Histories of the Internet’, special issue for the … Continue reading Joining Editorial Board of Internet Histories
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Literati Network Award for Excellence
Honored to learn that my piece with Grant Blank, entitled “CULTURAL STRATIFICATION ON THE INTERNET: FIVE CLUSTERS OF VALUES AND BELIEFS AMONG USERS IN BRITAIN” and published in Studies in Media and Communications has been selected by the editorial team at Emerald as an Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for … Continue reading Literati Network Award for Excellence
Early International Impact of the Oxford Cybersecurity Capacity Center
The Global Cybersecurity Capacity Center at the Oxford Martin School is developing a model and the tools for nations to self-assess their levels of maturity in addressing cybersecurity. I am supporting the Principal Investigator, Professor Sadie Creese, and other co-principal investigators as an Oxford Martin Fellow. Input from the project team and its international, expert … Continue reading Early International Impact of the Oxford Cybersecurity Capacity Center
Trapped in the Web of Forms
Trapped in a Web of Online Forms Most handwringing over the Internet is focused on social media and worries over the decline of civility, such as with online bullying or harassment. It might be that this focus misses one of the most worrying trends online for me, which is the migration of interpersonal communication to … Continue reading Trapped in the Web of Forms
In Praise of Academic Engagement
I am just back from a stimulating symposium at Northwestern University focused on rethinking scholarship on online news, which led me to reflect on the value of such events, and a related seminar series we have an MSU for the Media and Information Department. Of course, the Quello Center that I direct organises many seminars, … Continue reading In Praise of Academic Engagement
UNESCO’s Connecting the Dots: Options for Future Action, 3-4 March 2015
UNESCO’s CONNECTing the Dots conference will reflect on a report of UNESCO’s Internet Study, entitled ‘Keystones to foster inclusive Knowledge Societies: Access to information and knowledge, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Ethics on a Global Internet’. Representatives from 180 Member States will be present to present and discuss the major themes of this report. It … Continue reading UNESCO’s Connecting the Dots: Options for Future Action, 3-4 March 2015
Efforts to Challenge the ISIS Narrative: Relevant Research
Good to see the article in today’s NYTs, entitled “U.S. Intensifies Effort to Blunt ISIS’ Message’: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/world/middleeast/us-intensifies-effort-to-blunt-isis-message.html?_r=0 Focusing on changes afoot at the US State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterriorism Communications, there was an emphasis on building on the scale of efforts underway to respond to radical messages online, which is fully warranted. This need … Continue reading Efforts to Challenge the ISIS Narrative: Relevant Research
Bringing Data Down to Earth: Christine Borgman’s New Book
I interviewed Professor Christine Borgman last year for Voices from Oxford about issues covered in her forthcoming book, which has now been published. Entitled Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Digital Age (OUP 2015), it represents a very clear eyed, mature, and incredibly informed perspective on the real opportunities and problems facing … Continue reading Bringing Data Down to Earth: Christine Borgman’s New Book
The Lost Art of Pen and Paper
It is depressing to shop in almost any university bookstore for a decent fountain pen or even a nice tablet of paper. The pens are almost entirely the cheapest ballpoints imaginable and the paper is monopolized by cheap spiral notebooks of lined paper that comes close to the quality of toilet paper. Why would students … Continue reading The Lost Art of Pen and Paper
The William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award of the American Sociological Association
Wonderful to have received the 2014 William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association, given by CITASA (ASA’s section on Communication and Information Technology): http://www.asanet.org/sections/citasa_recipients_History.cfm Given my move to Michigan, I was unable to attend but I sent these words of appreciation: Dear Colleagues of CITASA, I would like to convey my … Continue reading The William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award of the American Sociological Association