“While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.”
Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
Sinan Aral, “Social Influence and The Dynamics of Online Reputation”
MIT Sloan’s Sinan Aral will argue that a new science of online identity could help guide our business, platform design, and social policy decisions in light of the rising importance of online reputation and social influence.
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Counterpublics: Self-Fashioning and Alternate Communities”
How is digital technology generating counterpublics — categories of identity and belonging in opposition to established norms of personhood or community?
Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
Podcast: John Bryant, “Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human”
John Bryant on revision studies, adaptation, translation, creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference in the ethics and editing of revision.
Why Gay Employees Need to Come Out
“I would never have imagined in July 2009 that by 2011, I would be sitting at the Google office in Bangalore, giving a talk to the Indian Gayglers.”
