 NewsMoving to LA for a year, teaching at USCI've accepted a Fulbright Chair at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy, starting this August. I'll be researching and writing a book on DRM called SET TOP COP: HOLLYWOOD'S SECRET WAR ON AMERICA'S LIVING ROOMS and teaching a course on the same subject. I'm really, really excited about this! I'm moving to Los Angeles for a year, and I'll be dipping my toe in academic waters with more seriousness than I've had since I dropped out of the University of Waterloo to program CD ROMs for Bob Stein's Voyager Company, ten years ago (Small world: Bob's also at USC). Even more exciting is the idea of being able to teach and write about this subject that's so important to me. I think the world has yet to see a really cogent book on how DRM is bad for democracy, speech, and discourse -- how it turns technology from something that enables into something that denies. This has profound implications for public diplomacy, and for communications, which is why the USC Annenberg School for Communication is also sponsoring my position at USC. I'm even planning on trying to transplant the London Copyfighters Drunken Brunch and Talking Shops (where we have a fake-Champagne brunch and give speeches on copyright at Speakers' Corner) to Venice Beach, substituting Bible-bashers for roller-bladers. 26 Responses to “Moving to LA for a year, teaching at USC”Leave a Reply
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Fight On Cory! - Welcome to the family.
Congratulations! I've been following your career(s) and writing via BB and eventually via your podcasts. You inspire me, both to write and to think! Good luck and welcome back to the (not-so-)good-ol' USA
Congrats Cory, that's really cool - and I'm looking forward to the book! For those of us that aren't students at USC - any chance some of those lectures will see the light of day as podcasts? Best of luck!
Very Cool. I'd really like to hear your lectures also. Of course under some sort of CC license. Good luck
Congratulations! I am really looking forward to the new book too!
I have posted on my blog about this to help get the word out:
http://www.bambismusings.com/?p=359
Fight on! Any idea what classes you'll be teaching on campus yet?
Hey, I guess that this gives me the update I was looking for. This sounds great Cory! Bob Stien, that name takes me back. Last I saw of Bob was meeting up with him for coffees on Amsterdam street about 6 years ago... Can't remember the name of his company at that time. Certain it was a few companies ago for him.
Anyhow, enjoy the SUN!
And now realizing the semi-stupidity/vagueness of my last statement, seeing as it specifically says the subject you'll be teaching about, I was really meaning to ask for some specific information on the course / number so those of us who are SC students and are interested can check it out :)
Way to go man. A new position in academia, a new book, evrything is coming up Cory! Cant wait to read STC. Oh... and welcome back to the US. Please excuse the politics. :)
Hey Cory, glad to see you moving our way. I've been jealous of not being able to attend any drunken copyfights, looking forward to attending one now. Let me know if you need a list of good British pubs in LA (if you don't already have a list) in case you get homesick for a good pint and a plate of bangers and mash...
That book seems so goddamned cool, I can't wait to read it.
As an aside, I am also a fellow LA-dweller within walking distance of Venice Beach (my girlfriend works at a hotel _on_ the beach) and would love to be involved in a copyfight brunch if you were to bring it to Venice.
Hey, gang! Thanks for all the kind words and the encouragement!
Regarding the course -- the first semester, it'll be a graduate seminar on DRM; the second semester will be a broader undergraduate one about architectures of control and their role in enabling or limiting civic engagement.
Pity California is so far away from Switzerland: I listened to your lecture at Orin College through your podcast, and was very impressed by your clear, humorous way of explaining complex issues. Will you podcast your courses from L.A.?
Congrats!
Congratulations, Cory!
Congrats on the job. Enjoy your time in California. I am looking forward to the next book.
Hey Cory. I'm currently a grad student at USC, and I live just a few blocks from campus. Really looking forward to having you around. Good luck with the move, and I hope you enjoy L.A.
Congratulations! That is indeed an excellent opportunity. Besides that, the weather in LA is somewhat better than in London.
Welcome to So.Cal
I saw you give a talk at an O'Reilly conf. a couple of years ago in San Diego and was most impressed. Now that you'll be in the area again, I'll keep an eye out for more public appearances.
Hey, congratulations! That's wonderful news, and I'm very curious to see this new book. Hope fiction doesn't go too far back onto the backburner, though. :) And I for one would love to hear your lectures podcast, as long as you, your students, and the Uni were all okay with it.
Congratulations Cory! I can't wait to read the book!
Keen! I read about your Fullbright Chair in the USC Chronicle and recognized your name from April's issue of Wired. I wonder what it'd take for a university staff member to sit in on one of your classes, they sound terrifically interesting...
That sounds excellent. I'll have to sneak in and sit in on a lecture or two!
I'm sure you've come across this Cory but Micheal Warner's book The Letters of The Republic is an excellent account of information and the public sphere which could serve to frame contemporary DRM issues within historical discourses of democracy and freedom.
congrats btw. sounds ace.
Hey Cory, pick a continent, will ya? LOL
I'm just waiting to hear, within the next ten months, that you've found a hot gig in China or India.
;-)
j/k, from psycho fan #101101101