CRITICAL COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES

Our engagement with technology entails political, not just instrumental choices.  Email clients, social networks, and word processors have a profound effect on the way we relate to each other: work, organize, relax, or make art.  Yet, we rarely have a chance to reflect on the civic, cultural virtues implicit in numerous everyday acts of computation: connecting to a wi-fi access point, sending a text message, or sharing a photograph online…..