Author: Stephen Carradini
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A Busy October
I had a busy October, winning an award and giving three different talks. So as not to bury the lede: I am deeply honored to announce that the Association for…
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From the Archives: Genre Theory as Ontology
When I was working on my doctorate, I was thinking a lot about genre theory, activity theory, and other ways of understanding the effects of communicative actions. (I even gave…
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Podcast Guest!
I had the great honor of being a guest on APQC (American Productivity and Quality Center)‘s podcast to talk about business communication, sustainability, and beat-up tour vans (yes, tour vans).…
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Discoverability
“Discoverability: Toward a Definition of Content Discovery Through Platforms” is an excellent article about a technical concept in digital media studies. McKelvey and Hunt build provisional categories for how the…
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Scarcity and Abundance, Digitally
My friend Chris Krycho, synthesizing some recent articles on scarcity and abundance, came up with a career-long research project idea: And from this wondering emerges a dream of a research…
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General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google by Hiroki Azuma
General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google by Hiroki Azuma (orig. 2011, translated from Japanese in 2014). This book promises to reread scholars of social thought (Rousseau, Freud, Rorty, Nozick) in…
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TikTok: Commercial Speech, National Security, and Globalization
I recently gave an informal talk to business students at Brigham Young University – Hawaii about TikTok for business. (This previous sentence is brought to you by the wonders of…
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Curation Essay
So I just posted a long essay about social media platform governance up at the tab that says “Curation Essay“. I argue that one way of thinking about governance is…
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New IEEE Article out now!
Dawn Janssen and I researched how 18-24-year-olds are adjusting to workplace technology conventions. Our respondents are handling things a lot differently than we (and the literature) expected. Thanks to ASU…
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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
I finally read it! I found it deeply compelling. Borges’ intellectual project in this one is to take every idea he is considering to its logical and even illogical extreme…