This review surveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital media into three broad
but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of …

This review surveys the literature on publics: political subjects that know themselves and act
by means of mass-mediated communication. It examines classic accounts of how publics …

The term 'Web3'refers to the practices of participating in digital infrastructures through the
ability to read, write and coordinate digital assets. Web3 is hailed as an alternative to the …

This book is a critical introduction to code and software that develops an understanding of its
social and philosophical implications in the digital age. Written specifically for people …

The civic hacker tends to be described as anachronistic, an ineffective “white hat” compared
to more overtly activist cousins. By contrast, I argue that civic hackers' politics emerged from …

In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of
highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied …

This article elaborates a theoretical case for considering new media as productive power,
viewing web interfaces as both reflecting and reinforcing social logics. It then details an …

Synthetic biology is transforming the development of human and animal therapeutics in
ways unimaginable just a decade ago. The unreliable and costly process of discovery and …

When social media technologies, or" Web 2.0," emerged, scholars and technologists hailed
them as a new era of participatory, egalitarian culture. This dissertation examines three …

How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution,
focusing on the Human Genome Project. The rise of genomics engendered intense struggle …