Essays & Articles

• Turner, Fred. “Das Freiheitsversprechen schlägt in Überwachung um: wie die digitalen Medien das Vertrauen in den Staat schwächen und diesen zugleich stärken,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich, Switzerland, July 8, 2020, p.28.
• Turner, Fred. “The Culture of Narcissism @40 – and Counting,” Public Books, May 26, 2020.
• Nagy, Jeff, and Fred Turner. “The Selling of Virtual Reality: Novelty and Continuity in the Cultural Integration of Technology.” Communication, Culture, and Critique, published online November 26, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz038.
• Fred Turner, “What Was The Bauhaus? And What Can It Teach Us Today?” in Laura Forlano, Molly Steenson, and Mike Ananny, eds. Bauhaus Futures, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019, 25-41.
• Fred Turner & Sepp Gumbrecht, “Uber die Demokratie in Deutschland und Amerika,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 21, 2019, 4.
• Fred Turner, “Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism,” Harper’s Magazine, January, 2019, 25-33.
• Fred Turner, “Millenarian Tinkering: The Puritan Roots of the Maker Movement,” Technology and Culture, Vol. 59, No. 4, Supplement, s160-s182.
• Fred Turner, “The Arts at Facebook: An Aesthetic Infrastructure for Surveillance Capitalism,” Poetics (forthcoming), 2018.
• Fred Turner, “Trump on Twitter: How a Medium Designed for Democracy Became an Authoritarian’s Mouthpiece,” in Pablo J. Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi, eds., Trump and the Media, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2018.
• Fred Turner, “Das Aufkommen der Gegenkultur,” in Claudia Mareis, ed., Designing Thinking. Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960, eikones NFS Bildkritik (Basel, Switzerland) and Wilhelm Fink (Paderborn, Germany), 2016, 235-267.
• Fred Turner, “Ein zeitgemäser Faschist: Medial modern, politisch rechtsextrem: Der giftige Cocktail des Donald Trump,” Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany, September 22, 2016
• Fred Turner, “On Accelerationism,” Public Books, September 1, 2016. Published in German as “Maschinentraüme,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, December 4, 2016, 55.
• Fred Turner, “Prototype,” in Benjamin Peters, ed., Digital Keywords, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, 256-68
• Daniela K. Rosner and Fred Turner, “Theaters of Alternative Industry: Hobbyist Repair Communities and the Legacy of the 1960s American Counterculture,” in H. Plattner et al. (eds.), Design Thinking Research — Understanding Innovation, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015.
• Fred Turner, “John Cage I Estetyka Demokracji Czasów Zimnej Wojny,” in Jerzy Kutnik ed., Cage100, ROZDROZA, Lublin, Poland, 2015.
• Fred Turner, “Les larmes ameres de la Silicon Valley.” Telos, Paris, France, March 26, 2015.
• Fred Turner and Christine Larson, “Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals.” Public Culture Vol. 27, No. 1 (January, 2015), 53-84.
• “Tal der Egomanen,” Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany, December 17, 2014, 8.
• “The Corporation and the Counterculture: Revisiting the Pepsi Pavilion and the Politics of Cold War Multimedia.” The Velvet Light Trap, 78, Spring 2014, 66-78.
• “Die amerikanische Gegenkultur und die Politik der Gestaltung/The American Counterculture and the Politics of Design.” Form – Zeitschrift für Design 249 (September/October) Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 2013, 84-87.
• “The Politics of the Whole circa 1968 – and Now,” in Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, eds., The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany, 2013, 43-48.
• “Bohemian Technocracy and the Countercultural Press,” in Geoff Kaplan, ed., Power to the People, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 132-59.
• “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.
• James T. Hamilton and Fred Turner, “Accountability Through Algorithm: Developing the Field of Computational Journalism,” White Paper, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, 2009.
• 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.
• “Romantic Automatism: Art, Technology, and Collaborative Labor in Cold War America.” Journal of Visual Culture, Vol.7, No.1 (April, 2008), 5-26.
• “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.

Book Reviews

• 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.
• “Shots of Silicon Valley.” Nature, Vol. 451, February 28, 2008, p.1054.
• 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.
• Review of Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro, Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002) in Space and Culture (Sage), Vol. 7 No. 1 February, 2004: 124-127.