About me
I study individual, collective and electronic memory from a socio-economic perspective. I ascribe Marxian and other theoretical and methodological frameworks to the social relations of collected electronic memory, collective memory and/or individual memory to test and compare how they apply in historical and contemporary contexts. I have recently submitted a PhD thesis for the Media, Film and Television program at University of Auckland entitled, Exploiting and neutralising the “Communist Threat” for the Privatised Internet.
My thesis surveys the development of the forerunner to the Internet, the ARPANET; its testing, privatization, distribution, and commercialisation (1960-1995) and is framed in Max Weber’s social order concepts. The thesis positions itself as an extension of Yasha Levine’s (2018) Surveillance Valley argument that the ARPANET was born in counterinsurgency and as a prehistory to Shoshana Zuboff’s (2019) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and Nathan Newman’s (2002) Net Loss.
