Hamid Ekbia

Phone:

(812) 855-3251

Email:

hekbia@indiana.edu

Website:

http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/hekbia/bio.html

Department:

International Studies

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Research Summary

I am interested in the political economy of computing, the future of work and labor around the globe, and in how technologies mediate cultural, socio-economic, and geopolitical relations of modern societies.

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
• M.S., University of California, Los Angeles
• B.S., Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran

Regions of Interest

• Middle East
• Iran

Research Topics

• Technology and Development
• Global political economy and labor
• Artificial Intelligence

Representative Publications

• Heteromation and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (with Bonnie Nardi). 2017
• Artificial dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2008
• Big data Is Not a Monolith. The MIT Press (with Sugimoto and Mattioli). 2016
• Reconsidering Access: Individual Travails and Asymmetric Gains. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (with H. Sawhney). in press.