Writing

Articles & Other Peer-Reviewed Works

Peters, Benjamin. (2012) “Normalizing Soviet CyberneticsInformation & Culture. 47:2, 145-175.

Peters, Benjamin and Deborah Lubken. (2011) “New Media in Crises: Discursive Instability and Emergency Communication.” The Long History of New Media. Peter Lang.

Peters, Benjamin. (2010.) “From Cybernetics to Cyber Networks: Norbert Wiener, the Soviet Internet, and the Cold War Dawn of Information Universalism.” Dissertation. New York, Columbia University. (Abstract: Available in full upon request.)

Peters, Benjamin. (2009) “And Lead Us Not into Thinking the New is New: A Bibliographic Case for New Media History,” New Media & Society, 11:1/2, 13-30.

Peters, Benjamin. (2008) “Betrothal and Betrayal: The Soviet Translation of Norbert Wiener’s Early Cybernetics,” International Journal of Communications, 2:1, 66-80.

Peters, Benjamin. (2008) “The Search Engine Democracy: Metaphors and Muhammad,” in The Power of Search Engines /Die Macht der Such-maschinen, edited by Marcel Machill and Markus Beiler, (Leipzig, Germany: Herman von Halem), 228-242.

Peters, Benjamin. (2007) “The Cybernetics of Nabokov’s ‘Beneficence,’” Ulbandus: The Slavic Review of Columbia University, ed. by Marijeta Bozovic, 173-190.

Book Reviews

Peters, Benjamin. (2012) Review of Marshall Poe’s A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the InternetIn New Media & Society.

Peters, Benjamin. (2008) Review of Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist Under Capitalism and Socialism in Russian Journal of Communication, 1: 2, 235-237.

Peters, Benjamin. (2007) Review of Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communication, Transportation, History in Journal of Communication Inquiry, Sage, 366-370.

Working Papers

(Under Review) With Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, “New Media,” Handbook of Communication History, edited by Peter Simonson.

(Under Review) With Bernard Geoghegan. “Cybernetics,” John Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Textuality.

(Working) Review of A Communication Universe: The Manifestation of Meaning, the Stagings of Significance.

(Working) “Why the Digit is Not the Heart of New Media.”

(Working) “Six Ways to Misunderstand Copyright.”

etc.