From some correspondence: I continue to be amazed by the extent to which surfing the internet is part of my thinking process. Literally clicking from link to link, thinking about things, thinking about what I’m writing, thinking about people’s arguments, thinking about how arguments work out in the real world of discussion. It’s part of […]
Why Links Rot
Link rot is a technical way of saying that when websites disappear from the internet, links to those websites don’t disappear. The phenomenon of clicking a link and finding a 404 error or a completely disappeared website is frustrating. However, it’s particularly frustrating in light of the reality that some things seem to never disappear […]
From the Files: A Thought Map
My longterm research goals have to do the Future of Work: what will professional activity look like in the future? I strongly believe the future of work is deeply intertwined with the future of the internet, and thus I have become very interested in internet policy. Several years ago, I built a flowchart for myself […]
Motivations!
I’m honored to announce that I have a new article published with Anya Hommadova Lu on an ethnographic/longitudinal study of motivations for gameplay over time in a mobile video game. The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds published the piece. The work built out of the New Media and Society article that Anya and I […]
Published in El Universal
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 […]
Each Day I’m Kerfufflin’
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 […]
Online Coverage of a New Class!
I’m delighted to announce that ASU Now took the time to interview me about the work I’ve been doing in relation to digital ethics and online controversies. I’ve been thinking about digital ethics for a long time via my co-hosted podcast Winning Slowly, and so I am thrilled to be moving toward integrating those ideas […]
Podcast Guest!
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 […]
Why Facebook and Twitter Will Never Win at the Content Moderation Game
I was discussing a Stratechery article on Mark Zuckerberg’s choices regarding moderation/censorship or lack thereof with my friend Chris. I thought that the argument I was making was worth setting down in a public channel. Here’s a lightly edited version of my thoughts: Legally, Facebook and Twitter can do whatever they want in regards to […]
New Article!
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 […]