Short stories by Matthew Crain
I’m an Assistant Professor of Media, Journalism & Film at Miami University. I write and teach about the transformation of media and advertising systems in the digital age with an emphasis on the political economy of internet technologies and consumer surveillance. My book, Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. The book gives data-driven advertising an origin story, looking closely at the political contests of the 1990s that laid the foundation for today’s surveillance advertising economy. Read more about research here. I teach courses covering subjects such as digital media and culture, media industries, media history and policy, intellectual property, and media technologies. I’m happy to talk with journalists and other folks about digital advertising and other issues related to internet business and politics.
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A middle-aged man who runs a landscaping company is introduced to a mentally disabled boy and takes him in as an employee. As he becomes a father figure to the boy, the man confronts his past as an ex-alcoholic and grapples with the guilt of having accidentally run over his own son in a drunk episode 9 years prior.