Book review

You are being watched: review of Macnish, The Ethics of Surveillance

Metascience, 27(2), 271-274

2018

Themes: Privacy

Category: Book review, Open access

Review of Kevin Macnish’s book The Ethics of Surveillance.

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Pity the poor engineer: review of Ragnedda & Muschert, Theorizing Digital Divides, and Ekbia & Nardi, Heteromation

European Journal of Communication, 33(3), 338-343

2018

Themes: Computing/The Internet, Digital modernity

Category: Book review, Open access

Review of two books, different in tone and intended audience, pour cold water on the optimism of the engineering project of using digital technologies to enable networks to develop and flourish at scale. Theorizing Digital Divides punctures the positive narrative of inclusion, while Heteromation problematises the whole idea.

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Conservatism then and now: review of Scruton, Conservatism

Cosmos + Taxis, 6(3-4), 45-51

2019

Themes: Conservatism

Category: Book review, Peer reviewed

A review of Roger Scruton’s Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, arguing that while Scruton’s historical discussion is illuminating, situating conservatism in dialogue with liberalism, his agenda for taking conservatism forward, involving a focus on political correctness and religious extremism, is very limited, not only ignoring a number of other very serious political issues, but also failing to speak to the concerns of non-conservatives.

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Review of Honderich, Conservatism

Contemporary Political Theory, 5(3), 354-358

2006

Themes: Conservatism

Category: Book review, Open access

Review of Ted Honderich, Conservatism: Burke, Nozick, Bush, Blair?

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