A Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University in Science & Technology Studies, I am currently a Link-Cotsen Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, where I also hold a Lecturer appointment in the Sociology Department. My work focuses on the complex intersections between people, science, and technological systems, such as the role of digital images in scientific practice, the sociotechnical organization and coordination of distributed robotic spacecraft teams, technologies in transnational context, and how users work within overlapping infrastructural systems.
My approach is ethnographic and ethnomethodological, combining insights from Science and Technology Studies, Critical Informatics, and recently, Organizational Sociology. My first book manuscript is on my two-year study of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, currently under consideration at Chicago University Press. Under a SocioComputational Systems grant from the National Science Foundation, I'm currently conducting a comparative ethnography with the Cassini Mission to Saturn, in collaboration with my Co-I's at University of California, Irvine. I'm also co-editing the New Representation in Scientific Practice (MIT Press, 2013), co-curating a special issue of Human Computer Interaction on Transnational HCI, and addressing the question of digital studies in Science and Technology Studies.
Where are the Women in Tech Top 30?
My Op Ed on women in technology got published in Forbes today! The Op Ed takes issue with the fact that of the Top 30 under 30 in Technology in Forbes' influential list, only three were women -- and those women were posed alongside men. It's time to move away from the mental image of the young man in his hoodie tinkering in his garage to a more inclusive vision of technological entrepreneurship, one in which the women who are already making a difference in the world of technology are visible, welcome, and celebrated too.
Announcing: Princeton Tech/Soc!
I've recently founded an informal group on campus - Princeton Tech/Soc - that is bringing together students and faculty around the topic of technology and society. Princeton has a lot of community members interested in this space, but they are spread out between Architecture, History of Science, Sociology, the Center for Information Technology Policy, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and even English. The purpose of the group is to gather for interdisciplinary discussion around key texts in Science and Technology Studies and Critical Informatics.
4S Panel: STS 2.0: Taking the Canon Digital
I'm so excited to announce our double panel session at the Society for Social Studies of Science this year in Cleveland: STS 2.0: Taking the Canon Digital. Along with my colleague David Ribes at Georgetown University, we've assembled two outstanding panels of scholars in Science and Technology Studies to address the question of digital studies in our field. The key questions we're addressing are:
- How do we renew the STS canon for contemporary studies of digital environments/interactions?
Website for Spaceteams collaboration
Announcing the new website for my NSF-funded project: http://www.princeton.edu/spaceteams -- Here you'll find information, writings and updates on the progress of our collaborative study (between Princeton and UCI) of the Cassini Mission to Saturn.
Workshop at CHI 2011
Along with my colleagues Silvia Lindtner and Irina Shklovski, I'll be running the workshop Transnational HCI at CHI 2011 this year in my hometown of Vancouver BC in May 2011. The workshop, a followup to our successful Transnational Times workshop at Ubicomp 2010 in Copenhagen, examines the role of technology in transnational settings, relationships, and mobilities.