Control and Freedom

A website to accompany Wendy Chun’s Control and Freedom, which strives to enrich and illustrate points from the book.

Wendy Chun’s Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006) examines the relationship of control and freedom in the way we think of networks and the internet. Chun wanted to have an electronic companion to the book which would appear when the book was published. The website consists of a limited portion of the book, provocatively presented so as to invite the reader to interact with and think about the subject matter of the book. STG, working with two students, who did the lion’s share of the work, implemented a website that mirrored the structure of Control and Freedom, and presented the introduction of each chapter in a meaningful and innovative manner. Despite its use of special effects, this whole website conformed to web accessibility standards in use at the time of publication. The designer for the project was Rolando Peñate (Brown ’08) and the programmer was Owen Strain (Brown ’08). The project was produced in collaboration with the Student Technology Assistants Program (Brown Instructional Technology Group).

Control and Freedom is a project of Modern Culture and Media

Contributors to this project include Wendy Chun
(Faculty lead), Rolando Peñate ’06, Owen Strain ’08, Elli Mylonas (CDS)