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Articles

  • "Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)" The New Republic, March 4, 2009, 28-35.
  • "Democratic Theory and the History of Communications," in Barbie Zelizer, ed., Explorations in Communications and History (Routledge, 2008), 34-44.
  • “The Great Telecom Implosion,” The American Prospect (September 9, 2002), 20-24.
  • “The Electronic Commons,” The American Prospect (March 27-April 10, 2000), 30-34.
  • “Cyberpower and Freedom," The American Prospect no. 33 (July-August 1997): 6-9.
  • "Smart Technology, Stunted Policy: Developing Health Information Networks," Health Affairs 15 (May-Jun 1997), 91-105.
  • "Computing Our Way to Educational Reform, " The American Prospect no. 27 (July-August 1996): 50-59.
  • "Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game," The American Prospect, no. 17 (Spring 1994), 19-29.
  • "Social Categories and Claims in the Liberal State," Social Research 59 (Summer 1992): 263-95; different version published in Mary Douglas and David Hull, eds., How Classification Works: Nelson Goodman Among the Social Sciences (Edinburgh University Press, 1992), 154-79.
  • "The Sociology of Official Statistics," in Alonso and Starr, eds., The Politics of Numbers.
  • "Who Will Have the Numbers? The Rise of the Statistical Services Industry and the Politics of Public Data," with Ross Corson, in Alonso and Starr, eds., The Politics of Numbers.
  • "The Electronic Reader," Daedalus (Winter 1983).
  • "Transforming the Libraries," Change, November 1974.

    Short Articles

  • "Are We on Track for a Golden Age of Serious Journalism?" A debate with Steven Johnson. Prospect Magazine [U.K.], May 2009.
  • "Revolution Amid Recession" The American Prospect (May 2009), 3.
  • “Freedom's Future Online," The American Prospect (July-August, 2008), 38-41. Review of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain.
  • "Political Networking," Technology Review, April 2005.
  • “Check and Balance” The American Prospect (July 2004).
  • “Reclaiming the Air,” The American Prospect 15 (March 2004), 57-60.
  • “A License for Power,” The American Prospect (May 2003).
  • "Parodies Lost," The American Prospect (June 4, 2001).
  • "A Nation of Numbers Watchers," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1985, with William Alonso.
  • Review of Patricia Cline Cohen, A Calculating People: The Rise of Numeracy in Early America, in The New Republic, February 13, 1984.
  • "The Political Economy of National Statistics," Items, Bulletin of the Social Science Research Council (September 1982), with William Alonso.

    Video

    Talk on The Creation of the Media , Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, January 26, 2005.

    "Is the Press Still the Fourth Estate in America?" National Press Club, March 30, 2007.

    "The Future of News,"Princeton University`s Center for Information Technology Policy, May 14, 2008.

    Panel discussion on "The Design of Influence: How Images and Words Sway Minds," Philoctetes Center, New York City, October 23, 2008.

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