Essays & Articles

“Bohemian Technocracy and the Countercultural Press,” in Geoff Kaplan, ed., Power of the People, University of Chicago Press, in press.

“The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America.” Public Culture, Vol. 24, No.1 (May, 2012), 55-84.
- Winner, Katherine Singer Kovács Award for outstanding scholarship in cinema and media studies, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2013.

“Gegenkulturelle Ästhetik? Sozialtechnologien und die Expo ‘70,” in Bernd Greiner, Tim Müller, and Claudia Weber, eds., Macht und Geist im Kalten Kreig, Hamburger Editions, HIS Verlagsges. mbH (Hamburg, Germany), 2011, 437-57.

Sarah Cohen, James T. Hamilton and Fred Turner. “Computational Journalism: How Computer Scientists Can Empower Democracy’s Watchdogs.” Communications of the ACM, Vo. 54, No. 10 (October, 2011), 66-71.

Daniel Kreiss, Megan Finn and Fred Turner. “The Limits of Peer Production: Some Reminders from Max Weber for the Network Society.” New Media and Society Vol. 13, No. 2 (March, 2011), pp. 243-59.

“The Pygmy Gamelan as Technology of Consciousness” (English) and “The Pygmy Gamelan als Bewusstseinstechnologie” (German translation) in Ingrid Beirer, Sabine Himmelsbach, and Carsten Seiffarth, eds., Paul DeMarinis: Buried in Noise, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Singuhr – Hoergalerie (Berlin, Germany) and Kehrer-Verlag (Heidelberg, Germany), 2010, 22-31.

“Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production.” New Media & Society, Vol.11, No.1-2 (April, 2009), 145-66.
- Reprinted in Patrice Petro, Lane Hall, and A. Aneesh, eds., World Making: Media, Art and the Politics of the Global, Rutgers University Press, 2011, 30-48.
- Video: CS 547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar: Burning Man at Google

“Buckminster Fuller: A Technocrat for the Counterculture,” in Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto Trujillo, eds., New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller, Stanford University Press, 2009, 146-59.
- Translated into Spanish and reprinted as Fred Turner, “Un tecnócrata para la contracultura,” in Norman Foster and Luis Fernánez-Galiano, eds., Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983, Arquitectura Viva Monographs 143, Arquitectura Viva SL, Madrid, Spain, 2010, pp. 102-115.

“Marshall McLuhan, Stewart Brand, und die kybernetische Gegenkultur,” in Derrick de Kerckhove, Martina Leeker, and Kerstin Schmidt, eds., McLuhan neu lesen: Kritische Analysen zu Medien und Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert, Transcript Verlag (Bielefeld, Germany), 2008.

“Why Study New Games.” Games and Culture, Vol. 1, No.1 (January, 2006), pp. 107-110.

“Where the Counterculture Met The New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community.” Technology and Culture, Vol.46, No.3 (July, 2005), pp. 485-512.
- Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Paper Award, Communication and Information Technologies Section, American Sociological Association

“How Digital Media Found Utopian Ideology: Lessons from the First Hackers’ Conference,” in David Silver and Adrienne Massanari, eds., Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions, New York University Press, 2006.

“Actor-Networking the News.” Social Epistemology, Vol.19, No.4 (October-December, 2005), pp. 321-324.

“This is for Fighting, This is for Fun: Camerawork and Gunplay in Reality Based Crime Shows,” in Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris, eds. Bang, Bang, Shoot, Shoot!: Essays on Guns and Popular Culture, Simon & Schuster, 1999 (New York and Toronto).[pdf]
- Reprinted in Gail Dines, ed., Gender, Race and Class in Media (Sage, 2002).
- Reprinted Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris, eds., Popping Culture, 1st through 5th editions (Boston: Pearson Education, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008).

“Cyberspace as the New Frontier?: Mapping the Shifting Boundaries of the Network Society.” Red Rock Eater News Service, ed. Philip E. Agre. June 6, 1999.
- Translated and reprinted in Spain as “El ciberespacio: ¿una nueva frontera?” by en.red.ando (February, 2000) and as “¿Es El Ciberspacio La Nueva Frontera?” by Rebelión (January, 2003).
- Winner, National Student Essay Contest, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 2001.

Review of The Social Network (Columbia Pictures), 2010. Journal of American History, Vol. 98, No. 1 (June, 2011), 294-95.
- Reprinted at TeachingHistory.Org, National Education Clearinghouse, United States Department of Education, September 22, 2011, http://teachinghistory.org/nhec-blog

Review of Katherine K. Chen, Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event, by Katherine K. Chen. Chicago, IL; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 3 (May, 2010).

Review of Robert Poole, Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). Technology and Culture, Vol. 51, No. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 273-275.

Review essay on Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything (Penguin, 2009) and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in a Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2009), Nature, Vol. 461, No. 7268 (October 29, 2009), pp.1206-1207.

Review of Geert Lovink, Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (New York: Routledge, 2008). Technology and Culture, Vol. 50, No. 2 (April, 2009), pp. 508-09.

Review of Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq (HBO Documentary Films, 2007). Journal of American History, in press.

Review of Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls The Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). Technology and Culture, Vol. 49, No.1 (January, 2008), pp.296-97.

Review of Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, ed., Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005). Technology and Culture Vol. 47, No. 3 (July, 2006), pp. 685-86., Fred. “Shots of Silicon Valley.” Nature, Vol. 451, February 28, 2008, p.1054.