Network Bias

My India presentation is available here as an audio transcript.  I would describe it as a provocative look at the way broadcasting holds critical sway in the virtual world (in spite of the amazing opportunities of internetworking).   I realize that this may be a better way of putting it than the pretentious socio-topological label (and when your blog is used for both professional and personal reasons there is always someone to point things like this out).

The presentation goes further than the actual paper which I submitted before the deadline only last week.   I realized in India that I had way too much written for one paper.   As the audio transcript alludes to I have some further ideas for how the elegance of Internetworking can teach us much about governance, decision-making, and resource sharing in the real world and how those lessons might be acted upon.    Those ideas will have to appear in another paper however as I am creeping up against length restrictions with this one alone.

So here, shortened and rebranded, I give you Network Bias:  Communication and Community in the Virtual World.