Futures in Things: Locating the Promise of Infrastructures in Public Libraries
Public libraries in the U.S. and around the world are rapidly changing due expanding technological and social needs of their communities. The Covid-19 pandemic has...
A.I. among Us: Agency in a World of Cameras and Recognition Systems
This paper reports on the use and perceptions of deployed A.I. and recognition social-material assemblages in China and the USA. A kaleidoscope of “boutique”...
Introduction to “Data, Design, and Civics: Ethnographic Perspectives”
This post introduces the series “Data, Design, and Civics: Ethnographic Perspectives” edited by Carl DiSalvo. With all of the civic hackathons, civic...