Author: Jason Mericle

The Infomediation of Entertainment Fandom

When wanting to look at social networks for specific fandoms, I think the context of a more significant event and a broader culture are needed for context. To see this context we will start by examining a social networking graph that represents the recent New York Comic-Con as a whole. Then we will compare that […]

The Marketplace of Sub-Culture Networks

To understand the changes to production and especially cultural production regarding content creation, we have first to understand the changes in technology that may have impacted the structures the most. With the enhancement of mobile and social technologies, we have seen changes in not only cultural production but what it even means to create content […]

WiFi and The Future of Connection

No one can argue that the development of the internet was a revolutionary moment in the world of communication technologies across the globe. Nonetheless, I would say that WiFi has been and continues to be as crucial to the world of communication and information as the first emergence of the public internet.   To speak […]