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[Fade in on Marcus and Ange out in the storm, John calling out to them from the hexayurt.] JOHN (jovially) Look at what the storm blew in. Better hose ’em off before you bring ’em over here, John, those two’ve … Continue reading →

The second half of Doctorow’s tale of civil disobedience completes the story arc; efforts to secure Xnet cryptographically are met later with the knowledge that the network has been infiltrated by DHS-sympathetic data miners seeking out M1k3y’s true identity. In … Continue reading →

My name is Marcus Yallow, but back when this story starts, I was going by w1n5t0n. Pronounced “Winston.” Not pronounced “Doubleyouoneennfiveteezeroenn” unless you’re a clueless disciplinary officer who’s far enough behind the curve that you still call the Internet “the … Continue reading →

In an excerpt from This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information, Forbes reporter Andy Greenberg details a short stint at ‘Chaos Communication Camp’, the setting for security-testing of the WikiLeaks spinoff, OpenLeaks. … Continue reading →

In a short article titled “Information Pollution”, usability consultant and human-computer interaction specialist Jakob Nielsen discusses the problem posed by excessive or extraneous content in both the cyberspace and material world. Nielsen motivates his argument by first citing several instances … Continue reading →

In Nine Propositions Towards a Cultural Theory of YouTube, Henry Jenkins, professor of communication, journalism, and cinematic arts at the University of Southern California and self-proclaimed ‘aca-fan’ (“a hybrid creature which is part fan and part academic”), provides a list … Continue reading →

“Neither social media nor its users are colorblind simply because technology is present. The internet mirrors and magnifies everyday life, making visible many of the issues we hoped would disappear, including race and class-based social divisions in American society,” concludes … Continue reading →

Andrew Keen, unflatteringly relayed in Lawrence Lessig’s Remix as a “failed Internet entrepreneur” (Lessig 90) and author of Digital Vertigo, could be succinctly described as a “.com libertarian”; he and Lessig (arguably the “.com socialist”) fall on approximately opposite sides … Continue reading →

Cyberculture at work: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/fashion/for-college-students-social-media-tops-the-bar-scene.html

Harvard law professor and “copyright warrior” Lawrence Lessig in his (free-of-charge!) book, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, advocates for the relaxation of copyright and intellectual property laws on the grounds that they strangle the development … Continue reading →

In the first chapter of An Introduction to Cybercultures and New Media, author and English professor Pramod Nayar argues that a ‘cyberculture’ — the “electronic environment where various technologies and media forms converge” (Nayar 2) — is inalienable from our … Continue reading →