Disclosure Statement

[Updated 09/2009]

In keeping with what seems to be good practice in blogging, I've been meaning to post a disclosure statement.

How I make money

I am Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton. As part of my position, I do my own research. I get quite a bit of latitude in what I study, and CITP never approves or controls what I say on my blog.

I used to:
Be a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. I worked on projects funded by the Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation.

Work for MIT, via my research group New Media Literacies. We were funded my the MacArthur Foundation.

In 2007 and 2008 I did part-time ad hoc work for Google on policy issues. During the summer of 2007, I was a "legal assistant" in the DC office, meaning that I mostly helped out with research for FCC filings on issues like net neutrality and spectrum allocation.

Academics

I research what I want, solely because I want to. I have the unbelievable privilege of being at a supportive institution which grants me latitude to pursue my interests independently. My funding is not at all contingent upon what I do on my blog.

Independence

As a result of my academic situation and my personal convictions, I feel no obligation to advocate positions that I do not wholeheartedly embrace myself. My commitments and beliefs influence the stances I take, rather than the other way around. To the extent that I work toward a goal or with organizations that advocate a course of action, I have simply found a venue for my own internal convictions. When the practices of any institution require that I depart from my own convictions, I will break from that relationship.

On with the blogging.