Morgan researches how the ideologies of computing cultures lead to
specific design choices, policies, usage patterns, and other cultural
and material articulations.

Morgan‘s current projects investigate the role, and limitations, of
technological utopianism in education and development projects. Based on eight years of archival and ethnographic research, she is writing a book on One Laptop per Child which explores the motivations behind the project and the cultural politics of a model site in Paraguay. Her next project explores the founding narratives of computer scientists and the social meanings of technology reforms in education, focusing on a one-to-one laptop program and a makerspace in the “Iron Triangle” of Richmond, California. See more here.

On April 7, 2016, Morgan will deliver a talk entitled, “Utopian by Design: On the Mythologies of Technosocial Practice” as a CSTMS Special Event.