The WikiCandidate site that I've helped develop with Josh Braun and Dima Epstein is live and available for anyone to explore, join, and edit. Check it out. We'll be presenting papers at the Politics 2.0 conference in London this week on the premise and aim of the site as a venue for political participation.
Wired Shut is set to be the featured book for May in the book review section of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, with reviews from Benjamin Bates and Troy Schneider. Scheider has some very nice things to say; Bates' review is not stellar, I must admit, but I'll see if I can speak to it in my author's response.
I did an interview last month with Nick Rankin at BBC World Service Radio, part of a three part series on "piracy" -- the first two episodes actually deal with the nautical kind; I appear in the third chapter, which was just posted, that deals with the intellectual version. I even get the last word, despite taking turns with Thom Yorke.
I gave a lecture here at Cornell on February 11, as part of Tracy Mitrano's superb University Computer Policy and Law speaker series, on my recent research on anti-piracy campaigns. You can watch it online here. I've attended so many of those talks, I'm honored to get to give one.
The paper I submitted to ICA this year, on anti-piracy campaigns, not only was accepted, it received a Top Three Paper award in the Communication, Law, and Policy division. Now I've got to get in gear and send it off to a journal!
I will be participating in a pre-conference workshop at ICA this year, on "Remapping Public Media". It is being organized by Pat Auderheide and the Center for Social Media at American University. A great chance to start thinking out loud about my recent ideas about the changing nature of publication in a digital environment.
