I plan to investigate how cats have altered the development of the internet, and how inter-species animal relationships have been changed by increasing digitization.  I will pay special attention to the protest strategies employed by other animal groups as they react to the disproportionate representation of their feline peers.
My sources will be drawn from a [...]

This semester I am teaching two new courses: “Introduction to Digital Media” and “Media and Global Communication.”  Both are undergraduate courses offered at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication.  You can find the course descriptions and reading lists on my Teaching page.

I am co-organizing a panel entitled “Ethnography 2.0: Anthropology of Online Commitments,” at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association:
This panel examines how anthropological theory and methods can critically engage with people’s daily lives as they increasingly encompass diverse online platforms. Early ethnographic research about the internet emphasized that existing cultural categories and [...]

My Green Card has finally arrived! More precisely, the “Welcome to the United States” notice has arrived. The actual Green Card machine is apparently being upgraded, so for the time being I am getting a temporary replacement card.
These exciting details notwithstanding, the Welcome notice is timely: in ten days, I am traveling to [...]

Please consider submitting a research paper, policy viewpoint, workbench note, or teaching innovation manuscript for the conference “The Politics of Open Source.” The conference will take place on May 6-7, 2010, in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Program Committee, of which I am a member, especially encourages papers that approach the notion of “open source politics” [...]

This Wednesday I am giving a talk about my work at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers.  The talk is entitled “Contentious Europeanization: Activism against Software Patents in the European Union” and is scheduled for 2 p.m., at the SCILS Faculty Lounge, Room 323, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick.

I am currently finishing the syllabus for my course “Literature and Technology: Online Ethnography.”  The shedule of readings is available at the Online Ethnography website. The rest of the website is reserved for the students enrolled in the course.

For the past week I have been in California at an interdisciplinary workshop, entitled “Values in Design,” that brought together graduate students from several programs in science and technology studies, iSchools, and humanities and social sciences (from US and EU) whose research interests revolve around information technologies. Our motley group, guided by provocative faculty, [...]

I filed my dissertation and now can finally start experimenting with other kinds of writing — for example, blogging. I suspect this blog will be a very occasional affair, with one or two posts a month at most. It may take me some time to find an appropriate voice. Your comments and [...]