Comments in the Press
I am very happy to talk to reporters about social media, Internet culture, open source software, and computers and surveillance.
- 2022. Make Me Smart (Marketplace). “Unpacking Mastodon.” 15 Nov.
- 2022. 9 to Noon (Radio New Zealand). “Twitter users seek alternative to Musk-run platform.” 13 Nov.
- 2022. Wired. “Twitter Users Have Caused a Mastodon Meltdown.” Amanda Hoover. 9 Nov.
- 2022. Forbes. “Mastodon Isn’t A Replacement For Twitter—But It Has Rewards Of Its Own.” Rashi Shrivastava. 4 Nov.
- 2021. Rational Ignorance Podcast. “Alternative Social Media with Robert Gehl.” 7 July.
- 2021. Meat and Three Podcast. “Episode 104 Trading Futures: Borders, Automation, the Dark Web, and the New Silk Road.” 19 February.
- 2018. VICE: Motherboard. “Facebook.gov.” 2 April.
- 2018. Washington Examiner. "Trump Administration is Again Losing the War Against Dark Web Drugs." Steven Nelson. 6 March.
- Nelson, Steve. 2017. "Fake Russia Connection? Cybercrime Takedown Reveals Assumptions Were Wrong." U.S. News and World Report. 21 July.
- Leovy, Jill. 2017. "AlphaBay sold drugs, guns and hacking tools online — until a sting operation shut it down." L.A. Times. 20 July.
- Locke, Charley. 2016. "The Dark Web Has Its Own Lit Magazine." Wired.
- 2016. "A Literary Magazine for the Dark Web." CBC Spark with Nora Jones.
- 2016. "The Torist: Das Literaturmagazin im Darknet." Breitband (Deutschlandradio).
- Smith, Nathan. 2016. The Atlantic. "The Literary Magazine of the Dark Web." 6 April.
- Brady, Amy. 2016. "What Kind of Literature Lives on the Dark Web? An Interview with the Founders of The Torist." Literary Hub.
- Smith IV, Jack. 2016. "The 'Torist' Is a Literary Magazine You Can Only Find Hidden on the Dark Web." Mic.
- Cox, Joseph. 2016. "The Dark Web Now Has a Literary Journal." VICE: Motherboard.
- Clemmett, Marcia. 2016. "The Dark Web." CQ Researcher, Vol 26, Issue 3.
- Astri, Lućia el. 2015. "La cara amable de la 'deep web': 'Todos son bienvenidos, limpien sus pies al entrar.'" El Confidential.
- Bammes, Dan. 2014. "U Professor: How Social Media, Socialbots Exploit the Unwary." KUER.
- 2014. "Eye Spy." Big Picture Science. 4 August.
- 2014. "Balancing Life and Privacy with Google Glass." KQED Forum.
- Harris, Paul. 2014. Radio interview about online cookies. America Weekend.
- Swan, Rachel. 2013. "UC Berkeley Helps Facebook Be as Emotionally Rich as Possible." SF Weekly.
- Clemmett, Marcia. 2012. "Internet Regulation." (Paywall). CQ Researcher, vol. 24, issue 13.
- Horiuchi, Vince. 2012. "Teens are texting more, study finds, but is it addictive?" Salt Lake Tribune
- Israelsen-Hartley, S., 2011. Facebook 'friends' college campuses, Mark Zuckerberg visits BYU. Deseret News.
- Iyamba, N., 2011. Social media creates hundreds of friends, shallow relationships. KSL.com.
- Elliott, C., 2010. Spy vs. spy: Travelers join surveillance fray. MSNBC.
- 2010. PTSD, Internet comment boards. Sunday Edition with Bruce Lindsay.