Category: Digital Culture
Unknown Influences
Jeff Vandermeer called me an “arrogant ass” on Twitter yesterday. What an arrogant ass. Have you never read Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”? — Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) September 4, 2018…
WTF is the “free and open” internet anyways?
If you have spent any time on social media in the last couple weeks, you have surely seen the news that FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, is trying to roll back…
What Kind of Hood Is You Claiming?
Since its inception, the sounds of hip hop were inherently tied to geography and space. The deep, rolling basslines of the west coast g-funk classics pioneered by Dr. Dre were…
Disentangling From Research
When I began browsing Reddit in 2008, or so, I never knew it would become such an important part of my academic career. What was once a hobby and a…
AMA Session on Reddit
If you are interested in Reddit, politics, GamerGate, check out my AMA with the Reddit community about my dissertation. I’m called a Nazi at least once!
Publics and Counterpublics on the Front Page of the Internet
You can find a copy of my dissertation here: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1719155030?pq-origsite=gscholar. You can also download a copy from my website here: http://blog.noahspringer.com/publics-and-counterpublics/