Why America is Self-Segregating

The United States has always been a diverse but segregated country. This has shaped American politics…

Did Media Literacy Backfire?

Update: On March 9, 2018, I gave a talk expanding on my ideas in this post after a year of…

Hacking the Attention Economy

For most non-technical folks, “hacking” evokes the notion of using sophisticated technical skills to break…

Are There Limits to Online Free Speech ?

When technologists defend free speech above all other values, they play directly into the hands of white nationalists.

How do you deal with a problem like “fake news?”

What’s Propaganda Got To Do With It?

Calling out news — whether real or fake — as propaganda expresses anxieties over media power, but is it helping us a get a grip on the media landscape?

Media, Technology, Politics

six new pieces on the networked public sphere

Doing Screen Time

Reflections on the screen at home and in school