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Posts by Sam Franz

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out @samhfranz.com (@upenn.edu)’s review of Reem Hilu (Washington University in St. Louis)’s book _The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

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I spent 5 minutes trying to find this sentence lol

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This and Braverman's sequel completely changed my intellectual trajectory and politics!

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Flyer with portrait photo of Sam Franz for his CBI Tomash Lecture

Flyer with portrait photo of Sam Franz for his CBI Tomash Lecture

Join us for UPenn ABD & CBI Tomash Fellow @samfranz.bsky.social for the Tomash Fellow Lecture. Sam's talk "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945-1990." March 10th 1pm C. Register today (free) at link below. #Histtech #Capitalism

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Pioneering Accessibility: Early Computing, Screen Readers, and New Tech | Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan Pioneering Accessibility: Early Computing, Screen Readers, and New Tech ...

In a short piece on the history of accessible design, I was quoted on the history of computing at the University of Michigan. Read here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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With Véronique Mickisch I interviewed Edward Baring on the history of worker education in Marxist thought for JHI Blog

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Brief reflection on materialist and Marxist approaches to the history of science in the latest HSS Newsletter, co-authored with @bolman.bsky.social & Claire Votava

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Digital Tools for the Humanities Machines reconfigure work. And yet, historians or other humanistic researchers rarely think about the way that our digital workflows—the tools that we use to do our work—enable or disenable the kinds…

A brief reflection on digital tools for the humanities, published by Clio and the Contemporary: clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/05/23/d...

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