Hello fellow Hive-r's? What's the phrase we're going to use over here? Really happy to see the community buck off Justin Sun and fork here, so decided to celebrate with a new post! I've been away for a

Like many people today, I woke up to many recommendations to check out the new Black Mirror release, Bandersnatch. After going through the piece and reaching a number of different endings, I really enjoyed

So once again, I'm back with a short update and some outlines for my plans for this blog space. Firstly, I successfully defended my master's thesis titled Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain (through

So it's been quite a while since I last posted anything here. Just wanted to give a super short update on what I've been doing and my plans for the next little while. For one, I moved from Ontario where

Important Update: MetaMask is back listed in the web store. Don't bother trusting me though, as some people tried to trick people into downloading a bad clone to steal ETH while it was down (Twitter Link).

Fomo 3D You could be forgiven if you haven't heard of Fomo3D yet. I debated whether or not I should even write about it, but the whole thing triggers so many thoughts and feelings in me, I had to write

Today I'm writing about one of my favourite whimsical dApps, cryptokitties. I find the project interesting for a number of different reasons, the biggest of which is my view that it abstracts a lot of

This is a piece I wrote for my sociology of new media class, SOCY 931. I don't actually have much to add to this one, but it broadly looks at topics of location, interface theory, ubiquitous tech, and

This is a paper that I wrote for my surveillance studies class, Sociology 903, at the end of 2016. This was my first attempt to try to use an interdisciplinary social lens to examine what had mostly been

This is a cross-post from my music blog freshdrops. I came across Anfa Rose back in December, with his track I'm Good, which is also a heater if you haven't heard it yet. Following up his last single In

I attended a meetup hosted by Kingston Blockchainers on decentralized exchanges the other day. They hosted Connor Herman of Radar Relay, who spoke on the state of the decentralized exchange space and some

In an attempt to force myself to write more both for my thesis and for this, I'm hoping to start posting regularly both here on steemit and on by blog freshdrops.ca. Some days I may post about similar

I'm back again with a bit of my more current work today. This was an assignment intended to be a critical review of Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple ( Elements of this work and my engagement in this piece

I'm back again and publishing another paper from my undergrad, and also from 2013. With all of the recent news regarding Facebook data control, the US/Russia issues with election meddling, and the issues

Today I'm publishing another old piece related to global social trends and significance of the expansion of web capabilities with the social web. This one was written in 2013 as well, for an advanced ethnic

This was a piece I wrote for a digital literature class back in early 2013. It is NOT PEER REVIEWED, and was simply an assignment that was submitted. I believe the assignment was to be a reflection on

I'm currently working on completing a masters in sociology related to blockchain technology. I thought about repurposing old websites that I had for this content, but thought Steemit would be a much more