Occasionally my work is featured in the media. Here are some of my appearances, interviews, and mentions outside of the usual scholarly venues:
- The Atlantic interviewed me for a story (another one) about AI, chatbots, and talking to the dead. Still not a fan. (July 31, 2024)
- I was interviewed by CNN, again about using AI to commune with the dead. I am not a fan. (May 6, 2024)
- I was quoted in a New York Times article on using AI to “talk” to the dead. The interview last almost 30 minutes but of course only a single sentence made it into the piece (December 11, 2023)
- There’s a profile of weird Twitter superstar Dril in The Ringer (the first ever with Dril out of character) that mentions my perspective on Dril (April 12, 2023).
- I was interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education about my reimagining of what counts as class participation (September 8, 2022).
- I’m the featured guest on this episode of the Leading Lines podcast, in which I talk about digital pedagogy and my own experience as a creative coder (February 3, 2020).
- A short account of literary bots, which mentions my @mobydickatsea and @justtosaybot (2 March 2017)
- The New York Times discusses bots in the age of Trump, citing my research on protest bots (16 December 2016)
- A look at so-called “slow games” in the New York Times features my analysis of slow games (9 August 2016)
- Twitter bots grow up and take over the world in New Scientist (4 August 2014) discusses my idea of protest bots
- The Rise of the Twitter Bots in The New Yorker mentions one of my Twitter bots (@FavThingsBot)
- The botmaker who sees through the Internet in The Boston Globe is a profile of Darius Kazemi, in which I provide some context to Darius’s work
- Battlebots: How Reddit and Twitter’s fake accounts stack up in The Daily Dot mentions my playful bots in comparison to the purely utilitarian bots found on Reddit
- Retweeting the Classics in Pacific Standard features several of my creative coding projects, and I also expose the guts of two of my literary bots (@blackboughbot and @WhitmanFML)
- A Rallying Cry for the Humanities in Chronicle Vitae highlights the outrageous solutions to the crisis in the humanities posed by my @SaveHumanities bot
Older Appearances
- A Short History of BASIC, as Told in Animated GIFs in Time Magazine features an animated GIF inspired by my co-authored book 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10
- Technology Is Taking Over English Departments: The false promise of the digital humanities in The New Republic pivots on a blog post of mine reprinted in Debates in the Digital Humanities
- The Mobile Story book review by Lauren Burr at First Person Scholar highlights my contribution to Jason Farman’s edited collection about locative media
- BASIC: A single line of code sends readers into a labyrinth in Slate reviews 10 PRINT
- Digital Culture Books at the University of Michigan Press interviews me about my project Hacking the Accident
- The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality in The New York Times, in which academic giant Stanley Fish cherry-picks a quote from me
- What if You Pull a Literary Hoax and Nobody Notices? in The Chronicle of Higher Education covers my discovery of a very minor literary hoax
- Do You Like Your E-Reader? in The Chronicle Review includes my argument that e-books have failed to make the most of their medium
Last updated 2024-07-31 17:42:01