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 ...