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… Read more

  CSTMS welcomes two new visiting scholars. Please introduce yourselves to them! Tomoko Kitagawa Tomoko is an author of five books in Japanese, including a national bestseller (2012) and the most recent one on the history of mathematics (2015). Her current research is in the history of mathematics, global history. Lina Ingeborgrud Lina is a… Read more

The Center welcomes faculty members, student, visiting scholar and fellows to submit activities to be reported in affiliate news each month. Please email a brief description of what you have been doing (pictures and links are cool!) conferences, talks, publications, teaching and other kinds of engagement and off the grid experiences in the field to cstmsnews@berkeley.edu.  RECENT… Read more

CSTMS affiliates and collaborators are organizing a thematic track on Critical Data Studies for the 4s/EASST Conference BCN-2106 Science + technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures in Barcelona, August 31 – September 3, 2016. We invite papers investigating data­ driven techniques in academic research and analytic industries and the consequences of implementing data­ driven… Read more

Books Inc. in Berkeley presents Thomas Laqueur discussing his book The Work of the Dead on Thursday, January 28 at 7pm. The event will take place at 1491 Shattuck Ave. For more information call (510) 525-7777 or visit the website.