In the middle of last spring semester, the TikTok algorithm suddenly keyed into my role as a teacher and starting surfacing two parallel streams of videos. First, I was seeing professors like those on...

Early in the first meeting of my school’s AI Book Club in Spring 2024, in the midst of a conversation about Fei Fei Li’s The Worlds I See, a colleague launched into the kind of anti-AI comment that’s ...

And why did our constructionism impulse die when it was most needed?

I taught three sections of my long-standing Digital Literary Studies elective last spring, and in late March, four separate students hit on the same object of study for their blog posts. All at once, ...

I taught three sections of my long-standing Digital Literary Studies elective last spring, and in late March, four separate students hit on the same object of study for their blog posts. All at once, ...

I recently read W. Patrick McCray’s excellent book README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (2025), and its central thesis that the history of computing is ...

I recently read W. Patrick McCray’s excellent book README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (2025), and its central thesis that the history of computing is ...

How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?

Essays and writing on AI