Review of “The Age of Sharing” by Nicholas John
This is my review essay on “The Age of Sharing”, published in Culture Digitally. Nicholas John’s fabulous new book The Age of Sharing dives into the concept of sharing as the key metaphor of our moment. Sharing, John argues, has come to refer to “our technologically mediated social lives; about our economic lives as […]
Keynote–The Social Lives of Personal Data: Communicative Figurations in the Rise of Self-Tracking
I gave this keynote address at the “Communicative Figurations” conference at the University of Bremen in December 2016. Today smartphones and wearable devices help people to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Over one hundred million wearable sensors were shipped globally last year to help people gather data about their lives. This […]
New York Review of Books: Workplace Systems: The Panopticon Unleashed?
Here is a video of my presentation at the New York Review of Books conference “Workplace Systems: The Panopticon Unleashed?”