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I’m very pleased to announce that the fifth book in the MIT Press collection “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Technologies of Choice? ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach Dorothea Kleine Information and communication technologies (ICTs)–especially the Internet and the mobile phone–have changed the lives of people all over [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that the fourth book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright Hector Postigo The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the [...]

I’m honored and thrilled to be a part of an online symposium featuring Julie Cohen‘s important new book, Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice, hosted at Concurring Opinions the week of March 5. Thanks to Danielle Citron for organizing!  Full announcement below: During the week of March 5, we’re [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that the second book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability Edited by Laura DeNardisSeptember 2011 Openness is not a given on the Internet. Technical standards–the underlying architecture that enables interoperability among hardware and [...]

Last week, the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC) passed a budget omnibus motion that affects the entire University of Wisconsin system. Sections 23-26 of the budget measure includes new telecommunication rules that would have extraordinarily negative ramifications, particularly for providing affordable Internet connectivity in support of research collaborations and education at universities, school, libraries [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the first book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Interfaces on Trial 2.0 By Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh March 2011 ISBN-10: 0-262-01500-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01500-4 We live in an interoperable world. Computer hardware and software products from different manufacturers can [...]

Building from the successful event on Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st Century held at UW-Milwaukee, I will be joining my colleague Dr. Joyce Latham to discuss Intellectual Freedom vs. WikiLeaks at the Brookfield Public Library on Thursday, February 24th from 7 to 8 PM. Registration for this event is requested, [...]

If you’re in Milwaukee on February 4, please join us for this event organized by UW-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies, and co-sponsored by the Center for Information Policy Research. Full details here. Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st Century A symposium with Laura DeNardis (Yale Information Society Project), and UWM [...]

[This three-part post is authored by SOIS PhD student Anthony Hoffmann; access other student posts here.]   Asserting Rights Online, Part I: Online Intermediaries and “Digital Citizenship” Recently, Danielle Citron has initiated a discussion at Concurring Opinions regarding the subject of online intermediaries and digital citizenship (here, here, here and here), one that I would [...]

[This post is authored by SOIS PhD student Liza Barry-Kessler; access other student posts here.] The FCC recently announced that it will vote on “preserving the open Internet” at its December 21, 2010 meeting. This will be a high profile vote – more than 36,000 comments have been filed with the FCC on this particular [...]