AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?| The Illusion of More
Discover why Brittany Luse’s _It’s Been A Minute_ is my go-to podcast for navigating digital culture without drowning in online noise.| Jason Toney
Back when I owned an analytics and strategy agency that included user-focused SEO as a service, I used to make the point that focusing on the searcher’s experience would result in better “SEO” results, so I coined the term “searcher experience optimization.” I genuinely think the same philosophy still applies in the AI-augmented SERP era—perhaps […]| Kate O'Neill | KO Insights
Can chance childhood thoughts shape the whole life? Maybe a lifetime studying the nuanced complexity of humanity alongside the elusive simplicity of mathematics comes down to The Woodentops.| Alan Dix
This blog post provides an English summary of an article that explores gaming on marginal home computers in 1980s Finland, highlighting user experiences, community support, and the factors behind their decline, originally published in Finnish.| Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
Playbills, programs, tickets: such physical documents are no longer part of seeing a show on Broadway. Does it matter?| Public Books
This is the script of a paper I gave at the Climates of Popular Music: IASPM 2022 Conference, hosted online by Daegu University on 9 July 2022. It makes reference to the research published in my data-driven analysis of annual top 100 albums, Hip hop's hold over Top 100 albums, 2000–2020. Introduction When, in 2016,…| Dr Steven Gamble