Plugging back out
Reclaiming agency in our mediatized world requires giving some up
Topic
media
A collection of 12 posts
Monday: why we need a new "media theory" for open science
Join me Monday at 12:30pm Eastern for a virtual panel on how open academic publishing can help rebuild trust in research
Your phone or your freedom?
Logging off as resistance
Soft(ware) power
A coup looks different in a world where software is power.
The Metamodern Miasma
The decline of cultural postmodernism explains the rise of global far-right populism better than any pundit.
Lucy
Facebook yanks the football away from news publishers one more (last?) time.
Hyperobjects, cynicism, and the post-left
Is a new kind of politics possible?
Maybe it's just us
Why is it so hard to name the primary forces driving democratic backsliding?
Welp
So much for the daily blogging habit. Here's a lazy list of things on my mind: accessing money in academia, getting off Google, and the fog of identity and war.
A corrective to the disinfo corrective
Maybe the people who are trying to understand why conspiracies take root online are themselves part of a giant conspiracy to prop up the online advertising economy. Personally, I think the truth might be weirder and a bit less nihilistic.