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Update on recent and forthcoming publications

It has been a while (April to be exact) since I posted an update about what I’ve been up to in my research. As we head into the fall semester, I suppose this is a good time to provide an update about what I’ve been doing. I haven’t actually done a lot of new writing [...]

Recent interview about #cyberwar with KPCW in Park City

I had the great pleasure to appear on Community Voices with Larry Warren and Beth Fratkin this last Thursday. Community Voices is a program on KPCW, the local NPR station in Park City, Utah. We spoke for about 20 minutes about cyberwar, including the recent revelations about Gauss, Stuxnet, and Flame, as well as many [...]

Social Media and the Multiple Realities of the Occupy Protests

[The following essay is just some quick thoughts about social media and protest. These ideas have been inspired by a series of ongoing discussions that a small group of faculty and graduate students, including myself, have been having about these issues in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. As such, what follows [...]

Convergence Security: Cyber-Surveillance and the Biopolitical Production of Security

My colleague Robert Gehl and I have just completed a paper that we will present at the Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life workshop at the University of Toronto in May. In it, we explore three case studies of what we are calling “convergence security.” These include cases of volunteer, online counterterrorists, cybersecurity intelligence analysts, and cyber-Minutemen [...]

Network-Centric Warfare, Articulation, and Cyberwar Discourse: A Research Update

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any original content on the blog. I cross-posted a piece I wrote for Forbes at the end of October on “How Non-Geek Government Can Make Cyber Policy,” but other than that, it’s mainly been periodic news briefs “From the Listening Post.” So, I thought I better provide an [...]