Fall 2022 semester #teaching

The fall semester is rapidly approaching, and I am looking forward to teaching my I222: The Information Society and my I400: Computing and the Environment courses. Both courses have been... more

Fall 2021 semester #teaching

This fall we will be back to campus for in-person courses. I will be teaching my I222: The Information Society and my I400: Computing and the Environment courses. more

I400 - Computing and the Environment #teaching

For the spring 2021 semester, I am offering a brand new course on Computing and the Environment. For an overview of the course, see the syllabus. more

Sabbatical #teaching

I am on sabbatical for the fall 2020 semester. I may be slow to respond to emails and other requests. more

Fall 2018 Courses #teaching

This fall I will be offering two courses, one old, one new. Undergraduates can take my I222: The Information Society course, which is a general education course (S&H) aimed at... more

Champion of Inclusion #teaching

I am very honored to have been selected for a 2017 Champion of Inclusion award by the School of Informatics and Computing as part of its M.O.S.A.I.C. (Multicultural Outstanding Achievements... more

Dr. Richard Knepper, PhD #teaching

Richard Knepper, one of the PhD students that I advise, successfully defended his dissertation today. The title is “Shifting Modalities of Use in the XSEDE Project.” Congratulations, Dr. Knepper! more

The History of Women in Engineering #teaching

This week in my graduate seminar on Technology & Gender, we will be discussing Ruth Oldenziel’s Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945. As a complement to... more

Technology and Gender #teaching

For the spring 2017 semester I will be offering a new graduate seminar that explores the intersection of technology and gender. In part this will develop my long-term interest in the... more

University Trustee Teaching Award #teaching

I am pleased and honored to have been awarded the 2015-2016 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award. Many thanks to my students, teaching assistants, and colleagues who helped make this possible!... more

Introduction to Social Informatics #teaching

This fall I will be teaching for the first time our core I202: Introduction to Social Informatics course. This is a course that challenges students to think critically about technological... more

New appointment in the History & Philosophy of Science #teaching #research

I am very pleased to announce that I have been appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. I am thrilled to be part... more

Introducing The Information Society #teaching

New Course   We are often told that we are living in an “Information Society,” and indeed, this is a truth that seems self-evident: communications and information technologies increasingly pervade... more

ACM Inroads - A call for champions #teaching #media

The ACM journal Inroads, which is aimed at computer science educators, recently published an article on the teaching of the history of computing that discusses one of my courses. The... more

I400 - Information Systems and Organizational Change #teaching

New Course The design and construction of technology is only the beginning of the challenging process of implementing (and maintaining) complex information systems. The cartoon above, which has been floating... more

I400/I590 - Information Systems and Organizational Change #teaching

In the spring 2012 semester I will be introducing a new course that explores the relationship between information technology and organizational change. Here is a brief course description. More information... more

Go Hoosiers! #teaching

So what exactly is a Hoosier? I still am not entirely sure, but I am now one officially. At the beginning of June I joined the faculty of the School... more

Doctoral Research & Theory, Part II #teaching

Becoming a professional academic means learning how to do research. In this seminar, we will focus on epistemological concepts and processes of theory generation and testing as they apply to... more

Historical Perspectives on Computing & Communications #teaching

The history of the information age is about more than just the electronic digital computer. It is the story of a wide range of human activities, scientific practices, and technological... more

Computers, Ethics, and Society #teaching

This summer I will be teaching once again my course on contemporary issues in computer culture and policy. The course explores the various social implication of information technology: social, cultural,... more

Cyberculture #teaching

Free speech, free software, MOOS, MUDs, anime and cyberpunk. All of these are elements of a broad set of social, technical and political phenom- ena generally associated with the emergence... more

The Information Age #teaching

Certain new technologies are greeted with claims that, for good or ill, they must transform our society. The two most recent: the computer and the Internet. But the series of... more

Inception in the Classroom #media #teaching

In the last lecture of my Information Age course, I discussed the problem of privacy in the Internet era. As one of my examples, I referred to the popular campus... more

The Information Sciences #teaching

This graduate seminar explores the emergence and widespread adoption in the early Cold War-period of a set of interrelated tools, techniques, and discourses organized around the concept of “information.” These... more