By Shaun Riordan
Clemenceau once said that war is too serious to be left to generals. By the same token, cyberspace is too serious to be left to technicians. Yet that is what we do. The point is made by the current furore about Huawei and 5G. The international standards … Read More
by Svend Brinkmann , author of The Joy of Missing Out
We live in a world full of choice and temptation, where we are constantly bombarded with invitations, in the broadest sense of the word, via everything from street advertising to social media. We are constantly invited to do something, … Read More
In contemporary societies, our everyday actions and interactions produce data. From using social media to shopping online, from supporting political campaigns to checking our health, and from operating a smart TV to walking through a smart city, data traces are produced, collected, and analysed. Through this data we are increasingly … Read More
Daniel Miller is the author of The Comfort of People, a new book featuring the stories of hospice patients and their use of social media. Here he explains how the book took shape.
The primary topic of this book is the social universe of the hospice patient. Potentially this … Read More
In the period following the dot-com bubble bust, a series of new media emerged that claimed to be ‘live’ – using a term that was previously associated primarily with television. These new forms of liveness began to challenge established ideas about what ‘live’ meant, thus warranting a scholarly revisiting of … Read More
