As on Threads (& X, for now), using aspirational @JustCodeCulture
Historian-social politics of #AI #HCI #privacy #labor #gender #race #disability #infosec & #climate
Prof. of Hist. of Sci/Tech & Dir., Charles Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info & Culture- a Res. Ctr/#Archives, U of MN
Co-Editor, Johns Hopkins U. P. interdisciplinary book series #Computing & #Culture
blockchainandsociety.com is my crit. inq. essays blog on #blockchain & AI
EIC #Interfaces
New Interfaces article by CBI Senior Research Fellow William Aspray & Union College Prof. Emeritus David Hemmendinger "Using Reference Works to Study the Intellectual and Cultural History of Computing." It reflects on their terrific new book pictured below. #HistoryOfComputing #computers #AI #computerscience #technology #science #history
Interfaces:
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
Thrilled to announce an online lecture by Indiana U. Prof. & CBI Research Fellow Rachel Plotnick "Computers are a Mess: What Hygiene Can Bring to the History of Computing." Wed., Feb. 11, '26, 1 pm Central.
#technology #science #history #STS #mediastudies #communication #informationscience
Via Zoom
Register:
https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/JJKMQZsBRu600TVICxQHBg#/registration
Deadline 1/15/2026 The Tomash Fellowship in History of IT
CBI for Computing, Information & Culture
No residency requirement. Beyond the stipend...access to our vast archives, knoweledgeable staff, talented
& diverse research fellows, mentoring resources...
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/adelle-and-erwin-tomash-fellowship-history-information-technology
In this just published article "Blockchain 2026..." in Blockchain & Society, I draw on history to inform on technology, hype, & inequalities, as well as underlying politics, power, & corruption. #bitcoin #ethereum #cryptoregulation
https://blockchainandsociety.com/home-%2Fessays/f/blockchain-2026-if-history-is-a-guide%E2%80%A6
Thrilled to see our special issue "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn" is out!
The issue has a wide range (geographies, themes...) of articles on the history of Automation/"AI".
Authors in order of ToC: Colettte Perold, Jeffrey Yost; Megan Wiessner; Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova; David Dunning; Eliza Pertigkiozoglou; @ranjodh & Jason Ludwig.
#ai #artificialintelligence #automation #labor #STS #history
Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due 28th February 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History Committee plans to support up to 5 research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Call is at link below.
#historyofcomputing #softwarehistory #aihistory #history
https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ACM-HC-fellowship-CFP-2026-final.pdf
CBI & UMN Anthro are delighted to host Nov. 14th lecture (noon to 1pm, Andersen Lib. 120) by Yale U. Prof. of Anthropology & CBI Research @lmesseri Lisa Messeri!!
"IN THE LAND OF THE UNREAL"
Free talk & lunch, reg. req.
Registration:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Anthropology #ethnography #gender #vr #tech #history #hollywood
CBI is delighted to announce that thought-leading scholars University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Anita Chan & Indiana University Bloomington's Rachel Plotnick have just joined us as new CBI Research Fellows. Below is the link to the article announcing these new additions to the interdisciplinary Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Info. & Culture's Research Fellows. We at CBI congratulate & welcome Anita and Rachel!
Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's
Hope Latta's
"People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
@histodons
@sociology
@commodon
@anthropology
@politicalscience
#tech #technology #policy #science #sociology #history
Talk tomorrow on history, power, & ironies & paradoxes of rhetorical & infrastructural appropriations of AI.
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published
Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link above. OA made possible with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! Full ToC in replies!
On mastodon @histoftech @scritic @mysdick
@dylanmulvin
@histodon
@commodon
@anthropology
@sociology
@politicalscience
@computerscience
Good question! I do not know if there will be, there is not one now. It will late be on MUSE open access I know, but I assume that will just be the added option of all the individual chapters as PDFs as well as the whole book as one. None of my prior 8 books were open access, so I do not know.
@histoftech @scritic @mysdick @dylanmulvin @histodon @commodon @anthropology @sociology @politicalscience @computerscience
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published
Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link above. OA made possible with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! Full ToC in replies!
On mastodon @histoftech @scritic @mysdick
@dylanmulvin
@histodon
@commodon
@anthropology
@sociology
@politicalscience
@computerscience
Box of advanced copies of Just Code: Power, Inequality and Political Economy of IT just arrived!!! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors was such a joy. Authors Ya-Wen Lei; Meg Leta Jones; @histoftech , Hector Beltran, Stephanie Dick, Elizabeth Petrick, Gili Vidan... The full list & ToC will be in replies below.
#gender #race #STS #tech #artificialintelligence #ai #software #justcode #inequality
@sociology
@communicationscholars
@histodons
@politicalscience
@anthropology
Delighted to announce CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend & close collaborator) Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz's (Con's) stellar new book is out (got to read it early & blurb it).
Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World.
Congrats Con! #copyright #copyrightlaw #internetstudies #mediastudies
@histodon
@commodon
@anthropology
@law
@sociology
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/
Just published in Interfaces! Delighted to publish Jim Cortada 's insightful new essay! "When Tacit Knowledge Meets Artificial Intelligence" (drawn in part from his forthcoming book Beyond the Facts).
@histodons
@communicationscholars
@anthropology
@sociology
#tech #technology #information #science #knowledge #sociology #anthropology #history
Access essay in Interfaces at:
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
An absolute joy to read & discuss the amazing, indisciplinary research on automation & resistance at Malte Ziewitz & Marc Aidinoff's "Shady Subjects" workshop & so honored to share my own "Of MYCIN Men" & grateful to get such generative, helpful comments! Thx to Malte, Marc & everyone!!!
Thrilled to announce that on April 21 at 2pm Central CBI Tomash Fellow, Harvard ABD Aaron Gluck-Thaler will be giving an online Tomash Fellow Lecture entitled " Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Reform in Cold War America." Please see link below for registration for this free/public event. #ai #aihistory #artificialintelligence #aipolicy #science #tech #history #sts #sociology #anthro
@histodons
@comm
@sociology
@anthropology
@politicalscience
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/2025-tomash-virtual-lecture-aaron-gluck-thaler
