Media in Transition: Call for Papers

MIT holds a “Media in Transition” conference every few years, the past conferences have been great. The have a call for papers posted that will probably appeal to some readers. I was at the inaugural event, which was based around Ithiel de Sola Pool’s book Technologies of Freedom, and had a weird and wonderful cast of characters.

Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.