The web is too big, or scaling down
I started writing this post in October, when Mozilla announced that it's going to become an adtech company. I got distracted by the professoring business, and didn't finish it until now. It's not quite so salient (and, uh, a lot has happened in the world since October 5). But tech, politics, and political economy aren't remotely separate spheres...
Computer Club!
The research centre I run, the Centre for Culture and Technology, has its first session of a new program this evening. Computer Club is this new program, which I will be running in collaboration with Matt Nish-Lapidus. Computer Club is an outgrowth of two things: For the past two years, we've run a program called Media Arts & Studies Playtime,...