228971 external_news 1376562554 1475893597 Ian Bogost,  professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article The Internet's Verbal Contrarian in the New York Times.  Bogost is credited as a colleague and confidante to Mr. Evgeny Morozov within the technological industry.  "Beyond his gnawing arguments and the way he delivers them, Mr. Morozov has benefited from growing public doubts in the prevailing belief in a “high-tech, techno-libertarian utopia,” said Ian Bogost, a professor of digital media at Georgia Tech and among the few writers in the field Mr. Morozov counts as a friend and ally. “This anxiety is one that needs voices who can identify it and find other paths. The reason why it is him is that he has been willing to pull no punches and be as brazen and direct as his targets.”  Source:  The New York Times, August 14, 2013.  

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