In other words, cyberenviro.org is a place for weaving my everyday experiences with my intellectual pursuits as an academic, an activist, and an educator.
Cyberenviro.org takes an environmental approach to understanding cyborgs, cyberculture, and cyberspace. In its broadest sense, an environmental approach recognizes both humans and their surroundings as mutually shaping actors. This approach helps depose those dimensionless constructions of rugged individuals and passive subjects that populate much of theory and practice in the social sciences.
In a cyber context, an environmental approach considers cyborgs, cyberspace, and cyberculture as social actors locked in a state of reciprocity with one another. Issues such as cybersecurity or privacy are thus understood as complex assemblages of people, places, and things that operate at multiple scales — from the global to the intimate and back again.
I am, of course, an actor in all of this too and as such my experiences as an academic, an activist, an educator, and an everyday person play an important role in my research. Cyberenviro.org is thus an assembly of personal and professional experiences within my own cyberspace — affording me a cyberplace to critically reflect on these experiences and their relation to my research.
About this blog
Cyberenviro.org is a contemporary style of assembly. It’s an attempt to carve out a political space for intellectual craftsmanship, and — yes — a bit of digital flâneury.
Cyberenviro.org takes an environmental approach to understanding cyborgs, cyberculture, and cyberspace. In its broadest sense, an environmental approach recognizes both humans and their surroundings as mutually shaping actors. This approach helps depose those dimensionless constructions of rugged individuals and passive subjects that populate much of theory and practice in the social sciences.
In a cyber context, an environmental approach considers cyborgs, cyberspace, and cyberculture as social actors locked in a state of reciprocity with one another. Issues such as cybersecurity or privacy are thus understood as complex assemblages of people, places, and things that operate at multiple scales — from the global to the intimate and back again.
I am, of course, an actor in all of this too and as such my experiences as an academic, an activist, an educator, and an everyday person play an important role in my research. Cyberenviro.org is thus an assembly of personal and professional experiences within my own cyberspace — affording me a cyberplace to critically reflect on these experiences and their relation to my research.