Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies | Department of Humanities | Michigan Technological University
On Thursday, July 18th, I will present work on haptics and surgical robotics as part of the panel, “Haptic revolutions: sensory futures and phenomenologies of expertise in medical worlds” organized by Denisa Butnaru (University of Konstanz) and Taina Kinnunen (University of Oulu) for EASST/4S in Amsterdam, NL.
Excited to have this piece on disability, media, and technology published in PuntoOrg International Journal https://www.puntoorginternationaljournal.org/index.php/PIJ/article/view/188 Abstract: This paper analyzes the da Vinci surgical system as a media technology situated intrinsically, while not expressively, as an assistive media technology, marketed and designed with an “ideology of ability” (Siebers, 2008) at its core. From trademarks to…
As part of the Institute of Policy, Ethics, and Culture at Michigan Technological University, I am starting a research group called Human Machine Culture focused on the historical and developing dynamics between humans and machines: the ways humans and communicative machines sense and make sense of the world together, and the cultural impacts of those…