Selected Papers

Papers on Surveillance & Security

2008 Editorial: Surveillance and Inequality. Surveillance & Society 5 (3): 217-226. [PDF]

2008 Tracking the Social Dimensions of RFID Systems in Hospitals. International Journal of Medical Informatics 77 (3): 176-183 (with Jill A. Fisher). [PDF]

2007 "War Rooms" of the Street: Surveillance Practices in Transportation Control Centers. The Communication Review 10 (4): 367-389. [PDF]

2007 Somatic Surveillance: Corporeal Control through Information Networks. Surveillance & Society 4 (3): 154-173 (with Tyler Wall). [PDF]

2006 Counter-surveillance as Political Intervention? Social Semiotics 16 (4): 515-534. [PDF]

2006 Electronic Fortification in Phoenix: Surveillance Technologies and Social Regulation in Residential Communities. Urban Affairs Review 42 (2): 169-192. [PDF]

2006 Securing the Homeland: Torture, Preparedness, and the Right to Let Die. Social Justice 33 (1): 95-105. [PDF]

2006 The New American School: Preparation for Post-Industrial Discipline. British Journal of Sociology of Education 27 (5): 617-631 (with Aaron Kupchik). [PDF]

Papers on Urban Studies

2007 "War Rooms" of the Street: Surveillance Practices in Transportation Control Centers. The Communication Review 10 (4): 367-389. [PDF]

2006 Electronic Fortification in Phoenix: Surveillance Technologies and Social Regulation in Residential Communities. Urban Affairs Review 42 (2): 169-192. [PDF]

2002 Los Angeles Studies: The Emergence of a Specialty Field. City & Society XIV (2): 155-184. [PDF]

Papers on Technology & Culture

2001 Please Increase Your Browser’s Memory Partition: Individual Action and Collective Blame in the Hall of Biodiversity. Museum Anthropology 25 (1): 41-45. [PDF]

2000 Spectacle, Plan, Signal Distortion: Postmodern Ethics in a Technological Age. [Website]

Papers on Education & Technology

2008 Picturing Technological Change: The Materiality of Information Infrastructures in Public Education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education 17 (2): 89-101. [PDF]

2005 The School System as a Post-Fordist Organization: Fragmented Centralization and the Emergence of IT Specialists. Critical Sociology 31 (4): 583-616. [PDF]

2004 Technology Policy as a Stealth Agent of Global Change. Globalisation, Societies and Education 2 (3): 355-376. [PDF]

2004 Just Another Tool? IT Pedagogy and the Commodification of Education. The Urban Review 36 (4): 271-292. [PDF]

2004 Digital Art Worlds: Technology and Productions of Value in Art Education. Foundations in Art: Theory and Education in Review 26: 7-15. [Website / PDF]

2002 Flexible Space & Built Pedagogy: Emerging IT Embodiments. Inventio 4 (1). [Website]

2002 Hot Technologies on Every Pillow: The Discursive Development of Institutional Change. Radical Pedagogy 4 (1). [Website]

2001 The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education. Computers & Society 31 (3):22-31. [PDF]

2000 Built Pedagogies & Technology Practices: Designing for Participatory Learning. PDC 2000. [PDF]