Steven J. Jackson

Steven J. Jackson is a professor of information science and science and technology studies and Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation at Cornell University. His work combines theoretical and methodological traditions from pragmatism, critical theory, and the interpretive social sciences to study how people build and maintain order, value and meaning in and with the worlds around them. He’s especially interested in problems of infrastructure, repair, and hope, and the times and places where new computational practices (always plural!) meet shifting social and material worlds, with implications for sustainability, inequality, and collectivity. His most recent venture is the Computing On Earth Lab, an experimental collaboration that brings together social scientists, humanists, artists and engineers to rethink the material and planetary foundations of computing.