Books, Journalism, and Essays

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I write about culture and the ethical and social impacts of new and emerging technologies. I'm the author of eight books, including six nonfiction titles. My latest book, Content (MIT Press, 2022), examines the rise of “content” as a cultural and economic force, exploring how it has reshaped everything from art and literature to news and media production. 

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Other titles include The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media (Harvard University Press), a study on digital memory that has been translated into Korean, Arabic, and Chinese, and Adjusted Margin (MIT Press, 2016), a history of xerography and its far-reaching impacts on culture, politics, and work in a pre-digital era. Forthcoming books include Influence without Power (MIT Press), a collection of essays on the rise of big tech, and School Yearbook (University of Chicago Press), an investigative history exploring how data was scraped from more than half a million high school yearbooks without our permission and how these cringey books now structure our lives in surprising and disturbing ways.  

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I am also the author of dozens of short-form articles, essays, and reviews. Some of this work can be found in publications such as 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, founders, and leaders.