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Welp I've been editing the next generation of technology & society books that will be coming out in the next few years.
It's been a thrill to see this next "turn" in action!
A few trends I've noticed, in my own work and others...
It's been a thrill to see this next "turn" in action!
A few trends I've noticed, in my own work and others...
I think we're past the point where we can point the finger at "bad technology."
It is true that we fetishize technology, and it is treated as a "solution."
But folks are pushing past this framing by looking at what makes them bad, which mostly isn't technology itself.
It is true that we fetishize technology, and it is treated as a "solution."
But folks are pushing past this framing by looking at what makes them bad, which mostly isn't technology itself.
There's going to be a big institutional turn in interdisciplinary technology studies.
Honestly, it's just the next "big story" and there's so much untapped literature in neighbor disciplines to many tech scholars.
Honestly, it's just the next "big story" and there's so much untapped literature in neighbor disciplines to many tech scholars.
We're at the point where you can't write a book without addressing issues of race, gender, and class. This is a good thing. But we're also to the point where we know "diversity" work/efforts aren't achieving their goals. Sorting this out is a big task!
There's a LOT of organizing going on that blends tech-oriented messaging and social movement tactics, and breaks apart what we think we know. It's a world that rejects purity, which is exciting, and challenging.
Other areas will continue to grow.
We still don't have a great sense of southern/non-western tech politics, for example.
Critical tech studies will also grow, since I think it gives the US something it's never really had: a home-grown "critical school" of thought.
We still don't have a great sense of southern/non-western tech politics, for example.
Critical tech studies will also grow, since I think it gives the US something it's never really had: a home-grown "critical school" of thought.
It's going to be an exciting next few years!
I think we're getting to some REALLY interesting questions that reject simple answers and propose ways forward for social and political action in a technologically-saturated society.
I think we're getting to some REALLY interesting questions that reject simple answers and propose ways forward for social and political action in a technologically-saturated society.
Oh and University presses are still into publishing these books. Lots of positive interest in these topics from adventurous series and acquisition editors with their fingers on the pulse of what's next. They're good folks 
