Thomas N Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5050065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas N Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas N |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating digital geographies
Smartphone location data are often treated as objective and self-evident—but it is neither. This article opens the black box of how location is constructed on the phone and in the cloud, arguing that these processes are foundational to digital geography and central to how its infrastructures take shape. Drawing on an original experiment conducted in Kingston, Ontario and Baltimore, Maryland, we reverse-engineer and document the different methods …
Metadata, Jailbreaking, and the Cybernetic Governmentality of iOS
Digital privacy tends to be understood as the “top-down” regulation and control of personal information on the behalf of corporate and governmental institutions, realized through various policies and practices. While smartphone manufacturers increasingly innovate and alter their policies and practices to reflect new and ongoing cyber challenges, they tend to emphasize the protection of personal information in the form of content data. On the othe…
Political Silence
To fully understand the global politics of silence, a move is needed from the prevailing metaphorical understanding of the politics of silence as sign - based in the idea of similarity-, towards a metonymical one, better equipped to capture the ontological continuity between the forms of silence inscribed in political discourse and life-histories and the wider experience of sound and silence in the global fabric of real life. Only through the mov…
Collective Discussion
The authors in this collective discussion engage, disaggregate and unpack the triangulation of security, technology and architecture, across a range of contemporary spaces/places. Reflecting diverse interdisciplinary commitments and perspectives, the collective discussion considers security, technology and architecture in urban environments and global/local interfaces, borders, borderlands and ports of entry, and even the sensorium, from soundsca…
Collective Discussion
The authors in this collective discussion engage, disaggregate and unpack the triangulation of security, technology and architecture, across a range of contemporary spaces/places. Reflecting diverse interdisciplinary commitments and perspectives, the collective discussion considers security, technology and architecture in urban environments and global/local interfaces, borders, borderlands and ports of entry, and even the sensorium, from soundsca…
Metadata, Jailbreaking, and the Cybernetic Governmentality of iOS
Digital privacy tends to be understood as the “top-down” regulation and control of personal information on the behalf of corporate and governmental institutions, realized through various policies and practices. While smartphone manufacturers increasingly innovate and alter their policies and practices to reflect new and ongoing cyber challenges, they tend to emphasize the protection of personal information in the form of content data. On the othe…
Collective Discussion
The authors in this collective discussion engage, disaggregate and unpack the triangulation of security, technology and architecture, across a range of contemporary spaces/places. Reflecting diverse interdisciplinary commitments and perspectives, the collective discussion considers security, technology and architecture in urban environments and global/local interfaces, borders, borderlands and ports of entry, and even the sensorium, from soundsca…
Political Silence
To fully understand the global politics of silence, a move is needed from the prevailing metaphorical understanding of the politics of silence as sign - based in the idea of similarity-, towards a metonymical one, better equipped to capture the ontological continuity between the forms of silence inscribed in political discourse and life-histories and the wider experience of sound and silence in the global fabric of real life. Only through the mov…
Metadata, Jailbreaking, and the Cybernetic Governmentality of iOS
Digital privacy tends to be understood as the “top-down” regulation and control of personal information on the behalf of corporate and governmental institutions, realized through various policies and practices. While smartphone manufacturers increasingly innovate and alter their policies and practices to reflect new and ongoing cyber challenges, they tend to emphasize the protection of personal information in the form of content data. On the othe…
Navigating digital geographies
Smartphone location data are often treated as objective and self-evident—but it is neither. This article opens the black box of how location is constructed on the phone and in the cloud, arguing that these processes are foundational to digital geography and central to how its infrastructures take shape. Drawing on an original experiment conducted in Kingston, Ontario and Baltimore, Maryland, we reverse-engineer and document the different methods …
Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Agent (philosophy) (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Art (1 work)