Notes and questions about “Her” for first-year seminarThis semester I’m teaching a first-year seminar at Lehigh on artificial intelligence and society. This week my co-instructor and I are…Sep 18Sep 18
A n00b’s guide to MastodonWith Twitter flailing, I spent a week trying to level up my experience on the major social network people are fleeing to. It has a learning…Nov 7, 202227Nov 7, 202227
On Ukraine: Words shape facts, shape understandingI had a Twitter thread go viral and turned it into the longform post below. This is an edited, cleaned-up and expanded version.Feb 26, 202235Feb 26, 202235
Elegy to a lost (and found) yearNow you’re at the other end of the telescope Seven billion stars in her eyes So many stars So many ways of seeing Hey this is no time not…May 26, 2021May 26, 2021
Opening remarks for Media And SocietyClasses started this week at Lehigh. Every year I teach at least one section of our introductory course, COMM 001 Media And Society. I…Feb 4, 2021Feb 4, 2021
My Statement on TeachingAs a tenured professor, I submit a triennial portfolio to monitor my progress. These are usually fairly antiseptic pieces, which cite…Nov 21, 2020Nov 21, 2020
News narratives are artificial; consume with that in mindI wanted to expand on this point from Dave Wasserman:Nov 7, 2020Nov 7, 2020
How conservative media helped the President promote dangerous use of hydroxychloroquine is a media…The Washington Post published a story this morning about a preliminary study of 96,000 patients that showed that using hydroxychloroquine…May 22, 2020May 22, 2020
Framing the Open America protests accurately means changing news routinesThe people protesting closures are hacking the journalistic news value of covering what is novel or contrary over what is…May 13, 2020May 13, 2020