Publication Forums
Associate editor and founding member, International Collaborative Dictionary of
Communications, Social Science Research Center, launched 2010.
Managing editor and founding member, Zhe: Stanford Student Journal for Russian Studies, Stanford, 2004-2005.
Executive editor, Perspectives: Online Journal of Germanic and Slavic Studies, 2002-2004.
Associate editor, Sigma: Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 2003.
Conferences & Workshops
Conference Co-organizer, “Russia Online: Mapping the Russian-Language Blogosphere,” Columbia School of Journalism, Harriman, and Berkman, October 2008.
Conference Chief Organizer, “Conversations and Communications in Memory of James Carey,” Columbia University, Oct. 2007.
Group organizer, Digital Studies Working Group, the University of Tulsa, monthly 2011-Present.
Group co-organizer, “Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyber Scholar Working Group,” monthly 2007-2010.
Workshop organizer, History Workshop, Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, July 2007.
Panel organizer, “Divine Databases” with Menahem Blondheim, Sharrona Pearl, John Durham Peters, and Stewart Hoover. International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012.
Panel co-organizer, “What We Now Call Communications” with Geof Bowker, Peter
Schaefer, and Fred Turner. International Communication Association. May 2009.
Panel co-organizer, “Doing New Media History” with Carolyn Marvin, Jonathan Sterne, and Lisa Gitelman, International Communication Association, Montreal, May 2008.
Reading groups
Member, Fictions of God and Time in a Post-Human Age, Van Leer Institute, 2010-2011.
Founding member, New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World, Harriman
Institute, 2009-2010.
Member, Visual Studies and Media Theory, Columbia University, 2008-2009.
Recent Invited Lectures
“Communication Systems” for Prof. Yevgen Fedchenko, Director of Mohyla School of Journalism, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 2012.
“Emigration and Mediation,” for Prof. Hanna Adoni, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, May 2011.
“So You are Thinking of Getting a PhD? A Workshop on the PhD Application Process,” Hebrew University, November 2010.
“New, Digital, Social and Other Media Misnomers” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, November 2010; also, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, November 2010.
“Doing Global Network Studies” HumLab, University of Umeå, Sweden, October 2010.
“Around 1950: Communication, Telephones, Computers,” Universidad de Navarra,
Pamplona, Spain, June 2010.
“The Soviet NyetWorks,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, December 2009.
“The Long View of Cybernetics,” for Prof. Trebor Scholtz, the New School, September
2009, February 2010.
“Comprehensive Network Designs and Other Cold War Cautions,” the Columbia Institute
for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School, August 2009.
“The Failure of the Soviet Internet,” Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton. Feb. 2009.
“Digital Communication and its Discontents: A Look at the Twentieth-Century Study of
Information,” Södertörns University, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2008.
“Why the Soviet Internet Failed” Cyberscholar Working Group, Berkman Center, Harvard University, October 2008.
“Information and its Discontents from the Cold War to the Internet” and “Novelty as a
Problem in Media History,” Moscow State University, May 2008 (in Russian).
Recent Conference Presentations
“Saving Information: Mormonism and Open-Source.” International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012.
“Technological Utopianisms in Early Soviet Networks” The First Princeton Young Scholars’ Interdisciplinary Conference on Soviet Science and Technology: The Great Experiment Revisited: Soviet Science and Techno-utopianism. Princeton, NJ, February 2012. And International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012.
“Why There Was No Soviet Internet” CARTA, Tulsa, OK, April 2012.
“Computational Fundamentalism From Cold War Cybernetics to Citizens United.” International Communication Association, Philosophy, Boston, May 2011.
“Digital and New Media Discourse in Early Soviet Computer Networks.” International Communication Association, History Interest Group, Boston, May 2011.
“Networks, Hierarchies, and the Collapse of the Cold War Digital Mindset.” Mediating War and Technology Pre-Conference, International Communication Association, History Interest Group, Boston, May 2011.
“Global Network Studies: An Introduction.” ECREA: European Communication
Conference, Doing Global Media Studies, October 2010, (with travel grant).
“The Soviet Internet from Cybernetics to Cyber Networks,” The Etiology and Ecology of
Post-Soviet Communication, Columbia University, May 2010.
“Arendt and the Creative Toil of Counting,” The Internet as Playground and Factory, New
School, November 2009.
“Josiah Royce, Aleksandr Bogdanov, and Other Precursors to Cybernetics,” Society for
Social Studies of Sciences, Washington DC, October 2009.
“Information and the Problem of Organization” International Summer School on Self-
Reinforcing Processes. Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany, July 2009.
“Why the Soviet Internet Failed” Beyond East and West, Central European University,
Budapest, June 2009. Also, MiT 6: Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2009.
“Feedback and its Philosophers,” International Communication Association, May 2009.
“Media We Do Not Yet Know How to Talk about: A New Media History Preface,”
Communication history interest group pre-conference, International Communication
Association, Chicago, May 2009.
“A World Already in Motion: On the Origins of Information, Organization, Feedback,”
Thinking and Making Connections: Cybernetic Heritage in the Social and Human Sciences
and Beyond. Södertörns University, Stockholm, Sweden. November 2008.
PLUS 14 other conference presentations, 2004-2009.
Recent Grants and Fellowships
Fellowship, Nevzlin Center for the Study of Russian Jewry, Hebrew University, 2010-2011
Scholarship, Kenneth E and Becky H Johnson Foundation, 2010-2011
Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University, 2010-2011
Junior Fellowship, Harriman Institute, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
Hazard Fellowship for Russian Legal Studies, Harriman Institute, 2007-2008, 2008-2009
PLUS 15 other grants, fellowships, and scholarships 1999-2009.
Publication Referee
Journal of Communication
New Media & Society
Theory Culture & Society
Journal of Communication Inquiry
Convergence
Russian Journal of Communication
International Communication Association (History and Philosophy Divisions)
