Below I have embedded a document that I created for my students in “Information Technology and Global Conflict.”  It is a quick resource guide for doing research on military-related topics.  It contains links to resources such as professional journals and schools, non-government sites with military and national security related information, etc.  It also contains links […]

My submission for AoIR 9.0 in Copenhagen was accepted a few days ago. I have pasted the abstract below.
From Network Society to Network-Centric Warfare: Articulating Theories of Information-Age Warfare in the U.S. Military
In testimony before the U.S. Congress in 2003, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld lamented that, “In an age when terrorists move information […]

Above are a couple of charts I just created, on the fly as it were, which track the relative blogosphere buzz for four topics of concern in the upcoming election. Data from both IceRocket and BlogPulse indicate that the economy has overtaken Iraq as a topic of concern, with the buzz lines for the […]

A recent article in Wired, Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist, details the work of Shannen Rossmiller, a Montana judge who, in her spare time, works as an amateur online terrorist hunter.  There have been stories about her before, but this is one of the most extensive that I have seen.  It is interesting […]

Over the last two weeks, at both the 4S and the AoIR conferences, I spent a good deal of time bouncing ideas with Professor Liz Losh of UC Irvine who blogs over at Virtualpolitik.  She has written a nice review of my presentations at both conferences which encapsulates much the feedback that I received from […]