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 books, 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.  ​​