A list of books I am reading, or have read in a way that means something to me. Hyperlinks point to my blogposts about said book.
Better Living Through Criticism, by A. O. Scott (2017)
Public Data Cultures, by Jonathan Gray (2026)
A History of Christianity, by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2009)
Language Machines, by Leif Weatherby (2026)
Law and Technology, by Ryan Calo (2025)
Orality and Literacy, by Walter Ong (2012)
The Human Use of Human Beings, by Norbert Weiner (1954)
Situated Learning, by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991)
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1986)
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers, by Jeffrey Ding (2024)
Sorting Things Out, by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Star (2000)
The Algorithm, by Hilke Schellmann (2024)
Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber (2018)
Data Colonialism, by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias (2019)
Eye of the Master, by Matteo Pasquinelli (2023)
The Power of Platforms, by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter (2022)
Chasing Innovation, by Lilly Irani (2019)
The Elements of Journalism, by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosensteil (2021)
Inventing Temperature, by Hasok Chang (2004)
Standards and their stories, edited BY Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star (2009)
The Value of Everything, by Mariana Mazzucato (2018)
Why We Fear AI, by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer (2025)
We the Platform, by Aarthi Vadde (2026)
Track Changes, by Matthew Kirschenbaum (2016)
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, by Dan Sinyikin and Johanna Winant (2025)
Content Machines, by Sarah Brouillette (2026)
The Next Journalism, by Tom Rosenstiel (2026)
Writers’ Rights, by Nicole Cohen (2016)
Living Thinkwork, by Mike Hales (1980)
Archiving Machines, by Amelia Acker (2025)
Influencer Creep, by Sohpie Bishop (2025)
Power: A Radical View, by Steven Lukes (2021)