My brilliant friend, Amelia Acker, has a new book out about the history of digital data management. Archiving Machines is available for Open Access download at the MIT website but I bought a copy for my "archive" (what I now self-importantly call my bookshelf): mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...

Stanford Sociology is fortunate to have an open senior search this year! More info in the job announcement here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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There are folders, but my totally unsystematic observations suggest that non-directory (read: young) people mostly view documents in reverse chronological order and run searches to pull things up, rather than clicking through nested folders. It’s a different logic of information sorting & retrieval

As we kick off the first week of quarter, I am reminded that I my mental model is *absolutely* directory structure and I have no idea how students now live their entire lives in the chaotic laundry basket that is Google Drive. This article explains it so well: www.theverge.com/22684730/stu...

Thanks Brenden!

This summer, I'm excited to be returning to the West Coast and starting a new position as Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford! I am so grateful for my time at UT Austin and will miss my colleagues and students there tremendously.

...it has rapidly increased in scope in the digital age. We offer four empirical testable hypotheses we hope might be useful in future research:

This is largely a theoretical piece in which we develop the concept of "surveillance deputies" to describe when ordinary people, rather than state actors, use their labor and economic resources to conduct surveillance. Although surveillance deputization has a long history...