(needs to be updated — just browse through the blog for the latest info or download a copy of my cv from the About page)
Dissertation
Mejias, U. (2007). Networked Proximity: ICTs and the Mediation of Nearness. Unpublished Dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Journal Articles
Mejias, U. (2010). The Limits of Networks as Models for Organizing Sociality. New Media & Society, (12) 4, 603-617.
Mejias, U. (2010). Peerless: The Ethics of P2P Network Disassembly. 4th Inclusiva.net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes, Madrid, 6-10 July 2009, pp. 56-66, Madrid: Medialab Prado & Área de las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. (Spanish and English)
Mejias, U. (2006). Teaching social software with social software. Innovate: Journal of Online Education, (2) 5 (June/July 2006).
Mejias, U. (2005). A nomad’s guide to learning and social software. The Knowledge Tree, Edition 7, November 2005.
Mejias, U. (2005). Re–approaching nearness: Online communication and its place in praxis. First Monday (10) 3.
Mejias, U. (1999). Sustainable Communicational Realities in the age of virtuality. Critical Studies in Media Communication, (18) 2, 211-228.
Mejias, U., Li, H. & McIntosh, S. (1999). Computer technology and the changing perception of literacy. Literacy Practitioner, (5) 2, 9-11.
Catalogs, etc.
Mejias, U. (2010). “Playbor” on the Internet. Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, (37) 4 (January/February 2010), p. 2.
Mejias, U. (2008). Counterpoint Game States. Curator’s essay for the catalog of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College. Ithaca, New York.
Presentations
Mejias, U. (2008, June 20). Ethics and nodocentric identity. Presented at the Ethics, Technology and Identity conference, Delft University of Technology, Center for Ethics and Technology. Delft, The Netherlands.
Mejias, U. (2008, April 17). Networks and the politics of the paranodal. Presented at Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference, New Political Communication Unit, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London. London, UK.
Mejias, U. (2008, April 4). Alternate realities, simulated risks: Games, politics and action. Presented (by invitation) at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College. Ithaca, New York.
Mejias, U. (2007, October 9). Symposium on network critique with Ulises Mejias and Warren Sack. Presented (by invitation) at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York.
Mejias, U. (2007, June 29). Hyperlocality and the tyranny of nodes. Presented at the New Network Theory Conference, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mejias, U. (2007, June 23). Networks, virtuality, and social realities. Presented at the European Computing and Philosophy Conference, University of Twente. Enschede, The Netherlands.
Mejias, U. (2007, March 26 & 28). Gaming meme forum. Presented (by invitation) at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.
Mejias, U. (2007, February 28). Networked participation: Wisdom of crowds or stupidity of masses? Presented (by invitation) at Floating Points 4: Participatory Media. Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mejias, U. (2006, October 24). Agent Smith goes to Washington: Agency and control in social media. Presented online at the New Media Consortium Online Conference on The Impact of Digital Media.
Mejias, U. (2006, July 20). Social media and the networked public sphere. Presented online at Innovate Live.
Mejias, U. (2005, June 29). The Internet and moral development. Presented (by invitation) at the Yogyakarta Society for Science and Religion. Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Mejias, U. (2005, April 8). Telepistemology, combat robots, and human Pacman. Presented (by invitation) at the Occupied Spaces Symposium. Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.
Mejias, U. and Shoemaker, D. (2005, February 3). Approaches to online learning design: Metaphors, processes, and metrics. Presented at ASTD TechKnowledge 2005. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mejias, U. and Shoemaker, D. (2004, November 15 & 16). Approaches to online learning design: Metrics, metaphors, and processes. Presented at TechLearn 2004. New York, New York.
Mejias, U. (2004, September 1). Online discourse: past, present and future. Presented at the 16th Annual Instructional Technology Institute Conference. Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
Mejias, U. (2002, November 24). Sustainable Communicational Realities and online learning: The construction and application of knowledge in virtuality. Presented at the National Communication Association Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mejias, U. (1999, November 4). The technologizing of communication. Presented at the National Communication Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
Blog Posts (including “best of” ideant archive)
Networks and the quantification of sociality, 7/9/07
Rebellion by Numbers, 5/7/07
How does social media educate? – iDC wrap up, 2/23/07
The Faith & the Filth: Performing Hajj in 1427, 1/8/07
The tyranny of nodes: Towards a critique of social network theories, 10/9/06
The thing about the internet of things, 9/15/06
Spectacular Feast: Social Media and Ultimate Consumerism, 9/2/06
Confinement, Education and the Control Society, 8/25/06
Video Games, Authority, and Problem-based Thinking, 8/14/06
Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere, 7/20/06
Technology Without Ends: A Critique of Technocracy as a Threat to Being, 6/3/06
“Socialist” Software, 5/5/06
In Defense of the Digital Divide as Paralogy (v 1.0), 2/27/06
More on Dissertations, Blogs, Knowledge, etc., 2/8/06
The Blog as Dissertation Literature Review?, 1/25/06
Wiki Evaluation Methods, 1/23/06
What is social about social software?, 1/21/06
Teaching Social Software with Social Software: A report, 12/28/05
Technology, the culture of testing, and obstacles to school change, 12/17/05
A Jihad Against Gender Oppression, 11/7/05
A Nomad’s Guide to Learning and Social Software, 11/1/05
Social agency and the intersection of communities and networks (draft), 10/16/05
Alternatives to Extremism: An Indonesian Travelogue, 7/23/05
The Unfixedness of Knowledge: Discourse, Genre, and Mode in Wikipedia, 6/7/05
Facilitating the social annotation and commentary of web pages, 5/20/05
Tag Literacy, 4/26/05
Open Ijtihad, 4/16/05
Telepistemology, Combat Robots, and Human Pacman, 4/8/05
Social literacies: Some observations about writing and wikis, 3/4/05
Movable Distance: Technology, Nearness and Farness, 1/20/05
Is morality an emergent behavior?, 1/5/05
Moral Development and the Internet, 1/2/05
A del.icio.us study, 12/27/04
Open Affordances Panel: Transcript, 12/12/04
Un-Empathic Nation?, 11/20/04
Alterity and Technology: Interview with Profs. Furstenberg and Levet of MIT’s Cultura Project, 6/4/04
Weapons of Mass Communication, 5/20/04
Norbert Elias: Technology and Momentary Lapses Into Barbarism, 3/8/04
Virtual Freedom and Tolerance: The Perils of Uniform Diversity, 2/8/04
The limits of e-Democracy: Between Public and Mass, 1/27/04
Technology and Blindness to Suffering, 1/18/04
Postmodernism, Virtuality, Globalization and the (fragmented) Self – 3/3, 12/21/03
Postmodernism, Virtuality, Globalization and the (fragmented) Self – 2/3, 12/20/03
Postmodernism, Virtuality, Globalization and the (fragmented) Self – 1/3, 12/19/03
Online Relationships: Here and Now?, 11/6/03