I speciallize in science and technology studies; specifically internet culture and history, intellectual property, the public sphere, free and open source software, public domains, commons, authorship and ownership, and the history and philosophy of science and technology, in the US, Europe and India. I also coordinate (with Hannah Landecker) research project in the comparative study of ethics and politics in science and technology (including computer science and nanotechnology). Finally, I'm working on an historical and philosophical book project on software and networking protocols conceived of as linguistic and textual phenomena. In particular, the relationship between abstraction in computer science (automata theory and logic) and practical implementation of particular machines and software (regular expressions, compilers and the Unix-like operating systems).
Publications
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"Geeks, Recursive Publics, and Social Imaginaries" in Cultural Anthropology 20.2 Summer 2005 (pdf from Anthrosource (requires membership or payment)
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"Culture's Open Sources" and "Punt to Culture" in Anthropological Quarterly 77(3) Summer 2004. (pdf licensed under a Creative Commons License by AQ)
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w/ Hannah Landecker "A Theory of Animation: Cells, Film and L-Systems" Grey Room Vol. 17 Fall 2004 pdf
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"Free Science" in Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software ed. Feller et.al. MIT Press 2005.
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"Trust Among the Algorithms" in CODE: Collaborative Ownership in the Digital Economy ed. Rishab Ayer Ghosh MIT Press 2005.
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Free Software/Free Science, First Monday, December 2001
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