An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, and driverless cars.
How, long before the advent of computers and the internet, educators used technology to help students become media-literate, future-ready, and world-minded citizens.
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies.
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.
Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world''s economic margins.
An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people''s experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot.
An examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical recommendations for increasing global data sharing.
Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Olympics.
An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology''s magic devices and romantic cyborgs.
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current “drone vision” works.
How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are—referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.
How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
Conversations with a founder of the influential Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach in science and technology studies offer an introduction to the field.
