Stephen Carradini

I’m thrilled to announce that I wrote an opinion article on how the First Amendment, Section 230, and contract law intersect to create the unusual speech situation social media platforms are in. Thanks to The Convergence Lab for offering me the opportunity to publish in El Universal! A different version of my ideas was also […]

Kerfuffles come and kerfuffles go in the world of national/international social media law, but (at least until recently) proposals on social media law have been mostly smoke and no fire since the SOSTA/FESTA Law in 2018. 2021 may prove to have some actual changes, though. The American government may have finally gained enough steam (and […]

I was recently asked to be a guest on the New Valley Conversations podcast on the topic of social media. In the hour-long conversation, I discuss how I got into social media professionally, my first interactions with social media, the good aspects of social media, the bad aspects of social media, the recent documentary The […]

I’m honored and thrilled to announce that “A Comparison of Research Topics Associated With Technical Communication, Business Communication, and Professional Communication, 1963–2017” has just been published at IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. If you’d like to look at the database (Excel file) that I worked from to create the article, it is linked above! Happy […]

I’m honored to report that SIGDOC has chosen to give me a Career Advancement Research Grant! Their financial assistance is providing storage space for a tool to help meta-analyze social media research across disciplines. The goal is to help technical communication see where its social media research is participating in larger interdisciplinary conversations and see […]

A colleague of mine pointed me toward a Ben Thompson’s Stratechery piece entitled “An Interview with Zeynep Tufekci About Masks, Media, and Information Ecology.” The interview is long, fascinating, and behind a paywall. However, the part of it that struck my interest was a single quote that doesn’t even need to be in context to […]

One of bloggers’ favorite things to do is to discuss whether blogging is dead. Venkatesh Rao was the latest person to catch my attention with a variant of the “blogging is dead” idea, saying “If blogging is a cat with nine lives, this is probably the eighth death.” C’est la vie. These claims often include […]