Kevin Driscoll

Kevin Driscoll is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. He writes about computers, networks, politics, and popular culture. He is currently writing a book with telecom researcher Julien Mailland about the 30-year history of the French Minitel system.

Cloudy With a Chance of Dystopia: Tung-Hui Hu’s “A Prehistory of the Cloud”

Kevin Driscoll on Tung-Hui Hu's "A Prehistory of the Cloud"....

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PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY

The Tedium is the Message: Finn Brunton’s “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet”

Spam, in all of its myriad forms, is essentially an attempt to capture and redirect a user’s attention, if only momentarily. Finn Brunton’s new book Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet offers the first sustained look at the relationship between attention and community in online spaces....

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The God That Failed: Evgeny Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here”

Triptych image: Megan Cotts, "ECU"EVGENY MOROZOV IS DONE WITH THE INTERNET. In his latest book, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism, Morozov dismantles the myth that the Internet is inherently a force for social change; it ...

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