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Internet Culture Research: New (?) Thoughts on Memes

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 15 April 2009

This article is highly experimental and has been published merely as a thought-provoking piece; therefore, please forgive any rambling that takes place throughout. – The Management
Ever since I got involved with ROFLcon (I attended the very first one and have been working with the team on hosting the smaller ROFLthing events since), I have had [...]

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This Is Not a Blog Post

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 1 July 2008

Instead, this is a small catalogue of books that I recently bought, borrowed, or brought to a close.
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Henry Jenkins (finished) – A mashed potato of a book that works much better if you separate the chapters and read them as essays. Pretty much an anthology of modern, [...]

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Berkman@10: Notes from Net(work) Neutrality Panel

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 16 May 2008

I feel that this panel, hosted by Yochai Benkler, Tim Wu, and Terry Fisher, finally established a full understanding of the base issues of net neutrality, so I wanted to post my notes from the panel so that others could also attempt to understand if they haven’t already. So, here we go:
Tim Wu
Yochai Benkler
Terry Fisher
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