Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use
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Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use

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This special episode features a short talk Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, gave at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event featured a great mix of historians and Science and Technology Studies scholars and was organized by Jacob Bruggeman, who recently finished his dissertation on the politics of computer hackers at Johns Hopkins University and is now headed to a job at Ohio State University. Thanks to Jacob for putting the event together and hearty congratulations on his accomplishments. In the talk, Vinsel argues that we are missing a synthetic social and economic history of how our...

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Welcome to the new Books Network. Welcome to People's and Things, where we explore human life with technology. I'm Lee Vinsil. Hey everybody, here's a little special episode of People's and Things.

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It's a short talk I gave called Accounting for Computers or Why We So Badly Need a New social and economic history of everyday digital technology use. It's a topic I've been thinking about for a long time and it's something I will be exploring in future work and in conversations with friends and colleagues.

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I gave this talk at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia at an event featuring a great group of historians and science and technology studies scholars. The event was organized by Jacob Brugman, a very fine and promising young scholar who is already doing great work.

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