Tag Archives: Research
A not so clean slate
Iraq was at one point a rising star. Before the Iran-Iraq War, it had the highest GDP-per-capita of any country in the Middle East, comparable, as Jack Straw recently noted, to that of Malaysia and Portugal. As Dennis Halliday has noted, the situation has reversed amazingly quickly: The situation in terms of malnutrition is no […]
Egolistening
Maria Garrido, my collaborator on the Zapatista research, said they were talking about the Cyberactivism book on NPR, and especially about our chapter, but doesn’t know what show. I searched the NPR archive, but nothing’s there. Did anyone happen to hear this show?
Blogging Panel
Got the panel in for the Internet Research Conference in Toronto, literally at the 11th hour. That’s some feat, considering the deadline was extended to the 10th from the 1st. One would think that juggling submissions and putting together a panel would be easier than submitting one’s own paper, but as always, the coordination costs […]
Building a whatchamacallit