There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on whe….

Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a qu….

It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more tha….

Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday pe….

It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-su….

The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not t….

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of….

One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free….

I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announce….

And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model..

One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's ….

Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding m….

All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we dep….

think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ulti….

Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly c….

A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think….

To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobo….

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another….

As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other peo….

We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we jus….

All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that utopianism altogether, even if it was….