Category Archives: Politics
Agenda Denial and UK Privacy Advocacy
This post constitutes an early attempt to work through some of the politics of agenda-setting related to deep packet inspection and privacy for my dissertation project. Comments are welcome. Continue reading
Publication – Digital Inflections: Post-Literacy and the Age of Imagination
“… [O]ne of the things about librarians is that they’re subversive in the nicest possible ways. They’ve been doing the Wikileak thing for centuries, but just didn’t get the credit for it. This is what we try to do all the time; we try to reduce the barriers and open up that information.” Continue reading
Rogers, Network Failures, and Third-Party Oversight
Rogers Communications has a severely misconfigured network made possible by the control and surveillance equipment they have embedded in their network. What are the implications of prolonged accidental misconfigurations and how might an independent oversight board mitigate such accidents in the future? Continue reading
Review: Internet Architecture and Innovation
I want to very highly recommend this book. Various authors, advocates, scholars, and businesses have spoken about the economic impacts of the Internet, but to date there hasn’t been a detailed economic accounting of what may happen if/when ISPs monitor and control the flow of data across their networks. van Schewick has filled this gap by examining “how changes in the Internet’s architecture (that is, its underlying technical structure) affect the economic environment for innovation” and evaluating “the impact of these changes from the perspective of public policy” (van Schewick 2010: 2). Continue reading
