Saturday 11 August 2007

How do you build a new internet?

Guardian Unlimited has this article on plans to build a new Internet. Given the enormity of the enterprise and the gravity of the role it plays in our daily lives it is hard to conceive of it has an assemblage of distributed computers, cables and spinning discs. Still, its current incarnation is now twenty years old based on ARPANET research forty years old.

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I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.