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  • CFP: “The Politics of Open Source” at the University of Amherst, MA, May 6-7, 2010

    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” broadly…

  • Upcoming talk at SCILS, Rutgers University

    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.

  • New Course: Online Ethnography

    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.

  • “Values in Design” Workshop

    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, worked…

  • Phew! (a.k.a Hello World)

    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 gentle criticisms are…