Books, Journalism, and Essays

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I write about culture and the ethical and social impacts of new and emerging technologies. These themes are explored across six published and forthcoming non-fiction titles, including Content (MIT Press, 2022), which examines the rise of “content” as a cultural and economic force and reflects on how it has reshaped everything from art and literature to news and media production.

 

My other titles include two books on digital memory: The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media (Harvard University Press), a study exploring the specific risks posed by young people's digital footprints; and its prequel, School Yearbook (University of Chicago Press, 2025), an investigative history exploring how data scraped from more than half a million printed school yearbooks has come to structure our lives in the present.  

 

Earlier and forthcoming studies include Adjusted Margin (MIT Press, 2016), a history of xerography and its far-reaching impacts on culture, politics, and work in the pre-digital era; The Archival Turn in Feminism (Temple University Press, 2013), an ethnography of three contemporary archives; and the forthcoming Influence without Power (MIT Press), a collection of essays on gender equality and digital culture.

 

I am also the author of dozens of short-form articles, essays, and reviews, some of which have appeared in Wired, MIT Technology Review, Literary Hub, Science, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

 

Behind the scenes, I have collaborated as a writer, editor, and coach on more than a dozen trade and academic books authored by established economists, designers, research scientists, psychologists, and business leaders. 

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