For the Minnesotans out there, see post below for upcoming book talk! My host, @justcode.bsky.social, wrote a lovely review of my book right when it came out. Also it's the final days of the @dukepress.bsky.social Fall book sale (thru Nov 9). Use FALL25 code on the press website to get 50% off!

CBI is absolutely delighted to announce that thought-leading scholars University of Illinois' @anitachan.bsky.social & Indiana University's @rachelplotnick.bsky.social have just joined us as new CBI Research Fellows. Below is the link to the article. #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/cbi...

Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's @hopelatta.bsky.social "People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link below, made possible by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-cod...

2/2 Just Code Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT Edited by Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz Table of Contents

1/2 Just Code Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT Edited by Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz Table of Contents

"One of the throughlines in the history of technology is that big, new infrastructural technologies often make more uncompensated labor. People may have to do more things to essentially shepherd those technologies along and make sure that they don’t break down..." www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

New Interfaces Essay, Aug. 2025. A super creative & insightful essay by Eóin Phillips, a Prof. of History and Sociology of Sci/Tech/Econ at La Salle-Ramon Llull Univ. "Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Sharing a book review of Thomas S. Mullaney The Chinese Computer that I just published in the British Journal of the History of Science. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Delighted to announce CBI Research Fellow (& close friend & 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! #histtech yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

CBI is delighted to announce Stanford Univ. 's Tom Mullaney is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction @benbendc.bsky.social ‬ History Award for his masterful book The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mul...

CBI is delighted to announce that Carnegie Mellon U. Prof. of CS Brad A. Myers is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction ( @benbendc.bsky.social )‬ History Award for his monumental book Pick, Click, Flick!: The Story of Interaction Techniques. #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mye...

Just published in Interfaces (May '25). Delighted to publish James (Jim) Cortada's new essay! "When Tacit Knowledge Meets Artificial Intelligence" (drawn in part from his forthcoming book Beyond the Facts). #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

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." Link is below for registration. #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/2...

Just published, April 2025 Interfaces essay, "Business History Conference 2025, & CBI's Participation." In this historiographical essay, I focus on oral history, & IT, gender, political economy, & labor history (in spotlighting many CBI fellows/grantees @BHC). #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

So many thanks to @justcode.bsky.social and Christina Ewig for the fantastic visit with UMN's Charles Babbage Institute and Center on Women, Gender & Public Policy! Such engaging conversations with the archivists, students, and colleagues there - so excited for all the work underway there!

CBI for Computing, Information & Culture is thrilled to announce UPenn History & Soc. of Science ABD Sam Franz is CBI's new Tomash Fellow, for his dissertation project "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945–1990." #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/sam...

Join us TODAY at 5pm at Humphrey 105 for this important lecture, "Predatory Data," by @anitachan.bsky.social , hosted UMN @cwgpp.bsky.social, The Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Christina Ewig, Youngmin Chu & me). #histsci

THRILLED to announce @anitachan.bsky.social will be giving a Humphrey Forum talk "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech" co-hosted by CBI for Computing, Information & Culture, & Humphrey School of Public Affairs' CWGPP (March 6 @ 5pm CST). #hstsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/p...

How did television help to shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? See standout media studies scholar Dr. @myrnamoretti.bsky.social 's insightful (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” "! cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Thrilled my tremendous HSTM & CBI, U. of Minnesota colleague Honghong Tinn will give a CBI lecture from her incredible new book Island Tinkerers on History of Computing in Taiwan. Feb 25th at 2pm Central. #histtech Join us! Register at link below for Zoom link. cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/i...

Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program. For projects in whole or major part advancing ACM history. Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. #histtech history.acm.org/wp-content/u...

Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in working alongside an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!! #histtech

New Interfaces essay! JHU's @jacobbruggeman.bsky.social "Phreaking the U.K." Jacob Bruggeman shows "how the origins of what became the 'computer underground' were fashioned in a trans-Atlantic current of technological tinkering, counterculture, and radical politics." cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #histsci blockchainandsociety.com/home-%2Fessa...

Just arrived in the mail, a new book I contributed--multiple years of NAE expert committee service! So honored to work on this with a stellar committee of colleagues--from engineering to the social science & humanities--to produce this National Academies Press book. Open access at NAE site.

Minnesota ppl in higher ed., museums, libraries, journalism... ppl, please let me know if you want to be added... go.bsky.app/MotLYNe

CBI is thrilled to be co-sponsoring a talk by highly distinguished U. of Toronto CS Prof. Ron Baecker "Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares," 6 pm C./7pm E., Th, Dec. 12th streamed from Toronto (free--must register). Lead sponsors: @acm-sigchi.bsky.social and TorCHI. cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/d...

Delighted to be a guest on @techlissa.bsky.social Melissa MK's excellent podcast Activists of Tech--discussing tech, AI, history, archives, justice. Asked my song/album of the day (2 days post-election) punk band The Dead Kennedy's "Bedtime for Democracy" #histtech www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

New Starter Pack on Archives & Oral History. go.bsky.app/D7mVKQX

Data brokers aren’t just creepy, they threaten national security. www.wired.com/story/phone-...

I wrote a book! 💙 “Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us About Data, Policy & Our Cities” will be out April 11 2025. It covers data invisibility of urban informal labour, the right to the city & proposes new ways to address evidence-based policymaking in the Americas

New Starter Pack on Archives & Oral History. go.bsky.app/D7mVKQX

Latest Interfaces article! (Sept '24) UPenn History & Sociology of Sci ABD Sam Franz's insightful article on the UMich Computer Center in the 80s & debate on students playing computer games--useful to their education or a drain on computing resources? #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Thrilled to announce our latest Interfaces piece, U. of Bristol scholar of STS Dr. Ola Michalec, offers “The Origin Myth” a playful short story where several protagonists well known from the Greek mythology are placed in a more recent context of the digital tech. cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Was super fired up at this Sept '24 NSF PI meeting on Privacy & Security & the FTC's work in privacy & combating surveillance capitalism & big tech. As w/ so much, this now will be abandoned!

Seeing many ppl coming over to bsky, so thought I'd start this in an area my & CBI's symposia, archives, oral history, pubs & editing interest. Please suggest others or yourself as the inititial list is just a start... go.bsky.app/9NBiqH9

My just published essay on a major security and privacy conference of NSF, and the larger research program at NSF in these areas (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, or SaTC). #histsci z.umn.edu/NSFSaTC

Congrats to CBI Sr. Res. Fellow Bill Aspray on his new (June '24) historiography ed. volume on computing & information. It has chapters from M. Jones, V. Schafer G. Bowker, G. Downey, J. Cortada, T. Haigh & a dozen more talented scholars. #histsci My essay/review of it is at: z.umn.edu/billaspray

Congrats to @SamSchirvar, UPenn, ABD in the History & Soc. of Sci. , the 2024 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Award recipient for his '23 article “Machinery for Managers: Secretaries, Psychologists, and ‘Human-Computer Interaction’, 1973-1983." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/cbi-anno...

Sad to hear the news of VLSI pioneer Lynn Conway's passing. Was honored to work with her on on a NAE Committee over the past few years. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/t...

This is a lovely, engaged essay review. Thanks @justcodeculture.bsky.social for the thoughtful extensions, provocations and praise!

New Review Essay on @lmesseri tremendous new book, ethnography & tech, social hopes, & false dreams of tech solutionism. Also discussing work of @docdre.bsky.social Zeynep Tufekci & @kelsiemvn.bsky.social on Black Twitter, Twitter & ethnographies of DAOs. #histsci z.umn.edu/Ethnographic...

Congratulations to Harvard University History of Science doctoral candidate Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the 2024-25 CBI Tomash Fellowship. We are thrilled to have Aaron as a fellow in the upcoming academic year! #histsci z.umn.edu/2024-25-Tomash

ICYMI MIT HASTS_MIT ABD Alex Reiss Sorokin gave an excellent Tomash Fellows Lecture on April 30th, "From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994." #histsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tymd...

Absolutely delighted that NYU MCC Prof. Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social & UCSB Prof. Of History Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social have signed on as new CBI Research Fellows. Please see article link below on these two incredible scholars! #histsci #sts z.umn.edu/cbifellows

Disturbing invasion of rights by NSA!!! www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/u... #histsci #privacy