…both for a new academic year getting underway, and for trying to fire up the blogging engine again on a regular basis once more. The former features fresh syllabi for my “Media Outlaws” and “New Telecommunication Media” courses. And the latter really is due for a fresh name. That’s a …
The Washington Post recently ran a photo essay dedicated to showing us “what [our] smartphone addiction actually looks like.” It’s a classic bit of public impersonal shaming that resonates strongly with what we already know about how smartphones have destroyed our capacity for genuine social connections. We don’t talk with …
A half dozen of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Birds who don’t need thumbs. Trustees who don’t need ethics. TSA agents who don’t need logic. Taxation that needs representation. A team that needs a new name. Surveillance that needs to end.