"Gardening the Internet/Web: A Framework for Communications Policy"
(60 pages: DOC,
PDF) - using the
metaphor of gardening as a guide to using complex systems theory to
inform internet policy questions. First draft January 2008. If
you're not up for the whole document, try the 12-page précis (DOC,
PDF)
A paper with Gary Tonge on "The Role of Licence-Exemption in
Spectrum Reform," published in COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES,
no. 67, 3rd quarter 2007, p. 85 (PDF)
A May 2007 lecture on "Hard Intangibles" at the Annenberg Center for
Communication at USC (abstract)
has now been posted in a choice of formats. Audio:
MP3. Video:
QuickTime or
Windows Media.
"Imagining Radio" (DOC,
PDF) - an
exploration of the mental models used in spectrum policy (accepted
for Dyspan 2007, to be
published in the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers
in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2007)
Metaphor Mappings for
Wireless - a summary of the mental maps used in thinking about
wireless communications; for the context and use, see Mental models of
spectrum. (Posted November 2006)
Populating the Vacant Channels - The case for allocating unused
spectrum in the Digital TV bands to unlicensed use for broadband and
wireless innovation (New America Foundation, August 2006)
Mental models of
spectrum - An analysis of why we talk about spectrum the way we
do (updated October 2006). Running log of raw metaphors as
spreadsheet here
Problems with Basic Access
Broadband - Why "basic tier" proposals for broadband access
won't work (Mar 2006)
Hard Intangibles
- a project to understand the mismatches between our embodied ways
of thinking and the abstractions of the knowledge economy (Mar 2006)
Paradigm shift rate and
population (spreadsheet) (Jan 2006)
Extending software
patents: Those who live by the sword, die by the sword (Jan
2006)
Four scenarios
for the future of broadband in the United States (Dec 2005)
Notes on Benkler's
Intellectual property and the organization
of information production (Nov 2005)
When Dirt and
Digits Collide, Annenberg School for Communications (Sep 2005)