a review of Scott Malcomson, Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web (OR Books, 2016) by Richard Hill ~ The implicit premise of this valuable book is that “we study the past to understand the present;… Read More ›
digital politics
How We Think About Technology (Without Thinking About Politics)
a review of N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Chicago, 2012) by R. Joshua Scannell ~ In How We Think, N Katherine Hayles addresses a number of increasingly urgent problems facing both the humanities in… Read More ›
Trickster Makes This Web: The Ambiguous Politics of Anonymous
a review of Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, 2014) by Gavin Mueller ~ Gabriella Coleman’s Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy (HHWS) tackles a difficult and pressing subject: the amorphous hacker organization Anonymous. The book… Read More ›