README.md

Overview of my Academic Teaching and my Practice of Analysis and Consultancy

Contact Information

Courses:

Future Punk

Speculative fiction, strategy planning, future studies: We work our way through the field of futurism and use its methods as our creative tool.
NYU Abu Dhabi Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 IM-UH 2513

Politics of Code

Deconstructing the design and implementation of software as a political medium and re-building functional alternatives.
NYU, New York, Spring 2024, Politics of Code Cryptoparty, Spring 2020, and lecture Spring 2021 NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 IM-UH 3310

Information and Communication Technologies

From the earliest alphabets to our current interactive media: History and critical theory of technologically mediated communication
NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, IM-UH 1012

Media Audiences

Looking at the recipients of media, audience theory, the cultural industry, taste, fandom, propaganda, and conducting empirical audience research

Media Law and Ethics

Understanding Interactive Media

Nature of Code aka Decoding Nature

Capturing and modelling complexity in code: Laws of motion, complex systems, generative art.
NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, IM-UH 2318

Mashups

Remixing the internet.
NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2019, IM-UH 2310

Blockchain Fiction

"Blockchain is the new Internet" (or not)
NYU, New York, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, ITPG-GT 2115

Analysis and Consultancy

Future of Democratic Governance and Participation with Digital Technology

Trustless communication

Peer-to-peer communication based on privacy preserving computation and federated learning.

Slow Media and the future of journalism, media, and social networks

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