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Moneygrubbing Artists and Other Cretinous Scum
A common line of thinking in capitalist society goes something like this: without proper incentives, people will cease to produce useful items. Putting aside counter-notions such as the altruistic...
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Vocational Respect in the Arts and Sciences
The notion that creative expression has value is not something that should be controversial. Throughout history, creativity has been rewarded in various ways, not all of them monetary, and none of...
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Higher Ed in the Age of TED: MOOCs Go Mainstream
If you work in education (or pay attention to this stuff), you’ve probably heard of MOOCs — so-called Massive Open Online Courses. Their aim is to make advanced learning broadly available to the...
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O Hai NSA
Responses to reports of NSA surveillance of Americans runs the gamut from outraged to blasé. I fall more on the outraged side, with the caveat that such wide-scale snooping isn’t particularly...
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Acid Cults, Innovation and Control
Information technologies warp our minds. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Ever since the first information technology—the alphabet—came along, our species has experienced psychological, if not...
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Corporate Dominance is Comcastic!
Earlier this week, news broke that Comcast—the nation’s largest internet service provider (ISP) and video distributor intends to buy Time Warner Cable for 45.2 billion dollars. Comcast is also the...
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Mail Order Misery
In keeping with last week’s theme of all things Slavic and creepy, I decided to turn my focus on mail order brides after repeatedly seeing ads for the totally reputable AnastasiaDate.com. One of the...
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Into the Borg Wide Open
These days, it’s fashionable to see creativity in opposition to technological progress. While it’s true that we exist at a time when the economics of cultural production are being reshaped, the easy...
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Lecture 1: August 28, 2014
I teach a course in Georgetown University‘s Communications, Culture and Technology graduate school called “Creative Industries: Reinvention Amidst Disruption.” In the interest of preserving my opening...
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Lecture 2: Sept. 4, 2014
I teach a course in Georgetown University‘s Communications, Culture and Technology graduate school called “Creative Industries: Reinvention Amidst Disruption.” In the interest of preserving my opening...
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