A few samples of my work*:
Technologies and Affect
- “The Internet as a Structure of Feeling: 1992–1996.” Internet Histories 1 (1–2) 2017: 79–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2017.1306963.
- Reflections on technology and the 2016 elections, March 16, 2016 https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/03/16/reflections-on-technology-and-the-2016-elections/
- “Steve Jobs, Romantic Individualism, and the Desire for Good Capitalism,” International Journal of Communication 9 (2015), Feature, pp. 3106–3124. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4062/1473
- “The Moment of Wired,” Critical Inquiry, 31, Summer 2005, pp. 755-779
- “Desperately Seeking Bandwidth,” Flow, Nov. 2004.
- “‘That Deep Romantic Chasm’: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture,” in Andrew Calabrese and Jean-Claude Burgelman, eds., Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Re-Thinking the Limits of the Welfare State, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, pp. 49-64.
Law, Policy, and Discourse
- “‘Business Model’ and ‘Monetisation’: On the Uses of Buzzwords.” TripleC 20 (2): 195–212.
- “Internet,” in Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture, Ben Peters (ed.). Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 184-196.
- “Policy, Politics, and Discourse,” Communication, Culture, and Critique, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2013, pp. 488-501.
- “Language and the Crisis of Legal Interpretation” ( a review essay of seven books) Journal of Communication, Vol. 47, No. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 128-135.
- “Inside The Beltway As An Interpretive Community: The Politics Of Policy,” Chapter Four of Selling the Air (Univ. of Chicago, 1996).
- “Some Thoughts on Free Speech, Language, and the Rule of Law,” in Robert Jensen and David S. Allen (eds.), Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression, New York University Press, 1995, pp. 31-53.
- “Beyond Freedom of Speech and the Public Interest: the Relevance of Critical Legal Studies to Communications Policy,” Journal of Communication, Spring 1990, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 43-63.
Law and Political Economy
- Smythe, Dallas. Facing Facts About the Broadcast Business, 20 U. Chicago L. Rev. 96 (1952): Communication Law and Policy: Vol 25, No 4 (tandfonline.com, Oct. 2020)
- “Law in the Text,” in media res, August 27, 2010, http://mediacommons.org/imr/2010/08/19/law-text
- “What is Commercialism?” in Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, July 8, 2005, Volume 2, Issue 8: http://flowtv.org/2005/07/commercialism-markets-public-television-for-profit-television-political-economy/
- “The Fact of Television,” Chapter One of Selling the Air (Univ. of Chicago, 1996)
- “‘But Not the Ownership Thereof’: The Peculiar Property Status of the Broadcast License,” Chapter Six of Selling the Air (Univ. of Chicago, 1996).
- with Wendy Wahl, “Audience Theory and Feminism: Property, Gender, and the Television Audience,” Camera Obscura, fall 1995, No. 33-34, pp. 243-261.
- “Broadcast Copyright and the Bureaucratization of Property,” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 10, Number 2, 1992, pp. 567-590.
- “Policy discourse and broadcast practice: the FCC, the US broadcast networks and the discourse of the marketplace.” Media, Culture and Society 1983 5, pp. 247-262.
*For the record, I believe the carefully considered written word is a significant mode of inquiry — a research method, if you will.