Professor Adrian Mackenzie

Professor Mackenzie is a leading scholar of science and technology studies, media and cultural studies, and social and cultural theory. His current interests focus on network and computational media, digital sociology and innovation in data-related methods. He is the author of Machine Learners: Archaeology of a Data Practice (MIT Press, 2017), Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures (MIT Press, 2010), Cutting Code: Software and Sociology (Peter Lang, 2006) and Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed (Continuum, 2002). He has recently published articles on the capitalization of online platforms, device-specific events, consumer genomics, and DNA-based biosensing. Professor Mackenzie is a co-editor of the journal Big Data and Society.