When I edited a special volume of First Monday on "Critical Perspectives of Web 2.0" I was lucky to have included a contribution by Trebor Scholz, which made an already good collection of papers even better. Scholz's article, "Market Ideology…
Read More The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor
For the last 353 days, I've been part of a team planning Internet Research 10.0 – Internet: Critical, the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). My life is about to get back to normal, as an…
Read More IR.10 Internet: Critical (or, why the blog has been slow lately)
Congratulations to Elizabeth Buchanan and Charles Ess for being awarded an NSF grant to create a much-needed repository and advisory board to address the challenges that emerging Internet and Web 2.0 platforms are placing on research ethics. I'm thrilled to…
Building on last year's success, I'm pleased to announce Milwaukee's 2009 OneWebDay events: On Monday, September 21 (7:00pm, UWM Union Theater), UW-Milwaukee's Center for Information Policy Research and School of Information Studies is hosting a free screening of the Girl…
Geert Lovink, one of the premier theorists of new media and network culture, has posted a set of "Web 2.0 Theses," puncturing the ethos and mythology the surrounds Web 2.0 and contemporary internet fetishism. Here's my quick summary, but I…
Read More Web 2.0 Theses by Ippolita, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter
There's been a flurry of news recently about an article from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University researchers showing that secret questions used to recover forgotten passwords aren't so secret after all. As reported in Technology Review: In a study involving…
Speaking of Lessig, two interesting cases emerged this week that help illustrate Lessig's position that, when thinking about the architecture of cyberspace, "code is law." In Code, Lessig argues that all of the rules, tendencies, affordances, and constraints of/in cyberspace…
Lawrence Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace turns 10 this year. In honor of this groundbreaking text, the Cato Institute hosted a "debate" about the book, including essays from Declan McCullagh, Jonathan Zittrain, Adam Thierer, and Lessig himself. Lead…
Read More Lessig’s “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace” turns 10
News reports indicate that Google will begin providing free music downloads in China. Apparently Chinese Internet users have grown so accustomed to downloading music online, that piracy and illegal downloading has impacted music sales there more than even what the…
Read More Google + China + Free Music = A New Business Model for Online Music Distribution?
Just in time for the sections on intellectual property and fair use in my "Information Technology Ethics" class, the Israeli artist Kutiman released a brilliant collection of YouTube video mashups called "Thru You" (his site has been down due to…
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