Jeffrey Yost

@BabbageInst Dir. I Prof Hist Sci/Tech UMN I CoEdit J Hopk Bk Srs Computing & Cltr I Rsch-AI, HCI, Priv, Gender, Race. Same hndl on Bsky @JustCode

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in leading an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!! #aibias #aiinequality #surveillance #privacy

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Thrilled to announce Prof. of Media Study, SUNY, Buffalo, @andrewlison Lison CBI Book Launch Lecture for his MIT Press book, entitled, "100% Utilization." Wed. June 3, '26. 1 PM Central. Online. #computerhistory #mediastudies

Register: https://t.co/Lwo5AkGpp2

[Kelsie Nabben @kelsiemvn]

My book Decentralised Digital Security: Code, Crisis, Community is out now (Open Access).

Inside the strange, high-stakes world of blockchain security—watching code break, communities respond, and crises unfold. A field site like no other.

Read it here: https://t.co/XNqbLbpjcc (ebook)

Hardcover: https://t.co/tRGzD6G6jT

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Register now for this noon hour CBI talk by @AmSwedInstitute President & CBI Research Fellow Dr. Molly Steenson @maximolly May 6th noon-1pm (free lunch starting at 11:30). Andersen Lib. 120B "Generating AI's History Through Architecture." #aistudies #ai

https://t.co/koopVNDjMN

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Register now & join us/CBI online Tuesday, May 5th at 1pm C/2pm E. for @BuBaykurt Book Drop Day Talk on her tremendous ethnographic book "Smart as a City: The Politics of Testbed Urbanism." #smartcities #aistudies #mediastudies #sts

Register at:

https://t.co/gjpBtQpAfQ

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Thrilled to announce CBI's MOSAICS Symposium & to work with Sareeta Amrute, Ekaterina Babintseva, Anita Chan, & Gerardo Con Diaz on this. #aihistory #aistudies #mediastudies #sts

October 15-16, 2026, Online Event
Deadline for Proposals May 29, 2026

CFP:
https://t.co/TAJI1Yy5HT

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Sharing a book review of @tsmullaney The Chinese Computer that I just published in the British Journal of the History of Science. #historyofcomputing #ChinaHistory

https://t.co/GM1L5PB38r

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below): @histoftech Ya-Wen Lei; Hector Beltran; Meg Leta Jones, Stephanie Dick.. See ToC below #STS

[Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney]

Mullaney Awarded 2025 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize

https://t.co/LNAiRypYmY

I'm floored and honored in equal measure. My thanks to the committee + heartfelt congratulations to CMU colleague Brad Myers

cc @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia @StanfordHistory @StanfordLibs

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

So grateful to the incredible @wrongrrl her tremendous lecture (& wonderful conversation) in MPLS "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech," on Thursday!!! Hosted by CBI for Computing, Info. & Culture & Ctr. on Women, Gender, & Public Policy. #eugenics #gender

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

How did TV shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? Standout media studies scholar Dr. Myrna Moretti's (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” " insightfully analyzes this!

https://t.co/h4vY5MHWXf

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

CBI & CWGPP @ U of MN are THRILLED to announce @wrongrrl will be giving a Humphrey Forum talk "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech" co-hosted by CBI for Computing, Information & Culture, & CWGPP (March 6 @ 5pm CST).

https://t.co/uN942kozqM

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in leading an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!! #aibias #aiinequality #surveillance #privacy

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program. For projects in whole or part advancing ACM history. Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. Info @ link
@SIGCIS @SocHistTech @4sWeb #historyofcomputing #sts

https://t.co/nqU7Zkp6kw

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy

https://t.co/YflH9lFjac

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy

https://t.co/YflH9lFjac

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. https://t.co/HDaNSu0EIc

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Incredible, important victory. So much gratitude to those who waged this long winning battle 🙏💐

[Richard R. John @RrjohnR]

"Plutocracy is its own kind of dictatorship. When companies larger, wealthier and more powerful than most world governments threaten individual liberty with coercive private taxation and regulation, it threatens our way of life."

Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General, 2024

[Cass Sunstein @CassSunstein]

Likely cover of a new book, coming from Oxford University Press, likely in May. Widely said to be "the one book you need to read, if you want to have a happy, fun-filled life, with friends, and without stomach pain."