Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
This essay originally appeared on Urban Omnibus… here’s an excerpt: I feel compelled to respond to a recent article and photo essay (PDF) published by a group of communications scholars led by Keith Hampton. Hampton is best known for his doctoral research under Barry Wellman, in which he studied the impacts of broadband on a wired suburb of Toronto. [...]
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Monday, June 20th, 2011
For Spanish readers, I contributed the final two chapters to this report. It was a major regional exercise led by Juan Bertolin, Innovation Manager at the science park ESPAITEC which is located in Castellon de la Plana about 30 km northeast of Valenica. I first visited the region in 2009 and was amazed by the [...]
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
I was the lead author on a new forecast looking at the next ten years of developments at the intersection of cities, information and inclusion. This study was funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The full PDF is a free download or you can browse an interactive Prezi version.
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Wow, my dissertation will live on the Internet as long as MIT does http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/30041
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
This article appeared recently in ED Now, the newsletter of the International Economic Development Council. Download PDF: Regional Knowledge Ecosystems: Laying the Groundwork for Future Technology-Based Economic Development
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
This was published recently, and blogged about over on Richard Florida’s Creative Cities blog. PDF (1.8 Mb)
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
A new article I wrote for a Spanish art journal published by the open University of Catalonia. Augmenting Public Space and Authoring Public Art: The Role of Locative Media Abstract: Locative media remain a useful frame for understanding how collaborative sensing will broadly empower groups to author alternative narratives of urban public space. The case of [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
This one is bound to be an Anthony Townsend classic. If you understand it, please email me and tell me what it’s about, because I’m still not sure I quite get it myself. It will be published later this year in a volume of works arising out of the conference on Towards A Philosophy of [...]
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
This is a chapter I co-authored with Mitchell Moss for the catalog book accompanying Carlo Ratti’s New York Talk Exchange exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: City of the Telephone
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
I wrote this as a student in Sherry Turkle and Mitchell Resnick’s “Systems and Self” seminar at the MIT Media Lab during my doctoral coursework. It’s going to appear in Sherry’s forthcoming edited volume, “Falling for Science: Objects in Mind”. It should be available for purchase at MIT Press soon (http://mitpress.mit.edu/ catalog/author/default.asp?aid=3954) ——– The Modem [...]
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