Is This Mine?
While organizing materials for my book-in-progress (Media Life), I came across a quote, filed in the directory for the manuscript. I do not know whether these are in fact my own words - in fact, I have a vague memory of hearing this in a discussion with colleagues or students - but I like where this is going anyway.Ours is but a remediated existence lived under liquid conditions, mitigated by strategies to reproduce the familiar while negotiating constant change.The point now is to show in the book how this is not just a hollow phrase, but a meaningful synopsis of a life lived in, rather t

Media Life Interviews
In preparation for a series of talks and public lectures in the next couple of months (first up, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on November 9, after that at the University of Wroclaw in Poland, the Dutch "Communicatiecongres" symposium on November 12, at several different departments at Indiana University, later on at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and so on), here are links to the audio of two hourlong interviews I recently had the chance to

Media Life Course Grades 2006-2009
[earlier published in 2007] Every semester and academic year, students are scrambling to move in and about campus, enroll in courses, plan their time ahead... It is a hectic and at times confusing time for all. Of course there are plenty of commercial services out there that help students (esp. in the US) select courses - for example through sites like RateMyProfessors. However, one of many things that are public in the US that are private elsewhere can be an indicator of a course or professor, especially i

The End of the University (or a New Beginning)
after reading about the current protests across the University of California system, and the ongoing commercialization and corporatization of higher education (as exemplified by top-down hierarchical decision-making practices focused on the "bottom-line" and the domination of managerial speak in bureaucratic rhetoric on education, such as: "efficiency", "results", "return on investment", and so on) - and considering my own research on the precarity

Media Life Public Lecture
If you are around, I hope to see you on Monday, November 9, at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Champaign. The graduate students of the InfoStructure: Intersections Between Social and Technological Systems program have been kind enough to