I’m Director of a new research centre at York University called the Institute for Technoscience & Society. Check out the recently launched website! “Our aim is to build a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary… Read More »Launch of New Institute!
New Frontiers of Techno-Economic Rentiership in Competition & Change “In this guest introduction, we explore emerging critiques at the frontiers of techno-economic rentiership. Rentiership is a process entailing political-economic and technological (i.e. techno-economic) relations, formations,… Read More »New special issue: New Frontiers of Techno-economic Rentiership
I’ve had a couple of opinion pieces come out over the last couple of months in Canada’s National Post newspaper dealing with competition and Big Tech. They can be accessed here: Opinion: We need to… Read More »Recent Opeds on Big Tech & Competition Policy
I just submitted a consultation response to Senator Wetston’s call to examine Canada’s Competition Act in the ‘digital era’. My response covers three areas: (1) a call for more diversity in this debate on competition… Read More »Consultation Submission: Examining the Canadian Competition Act in the Digital Era
The Society for the Social Studies of Science – one of the world’s key learned society for science and technology studies, or STS – was looking for nominations/proposals for Editorship of its flagship journal, Science,… Read More »Editorship Proposal: “Science, Technology & Human Values”
Here are some podcasts I’ve done recently. I’ve got a couple more lined up: Interview on “Facebook Effect and the Rise of the Data Economy” for The Priv8 Podcast (Jul 2021). Lecture on “The Rise… Read More »Podcasts & Online Talks
I recently added a few more “stories” to my Medium.com webpage, some of which are old and reposted, others saved from dead websites, and some just published there. Here are the “stories” I’ve put up… Read More »My Medium.com webpage