Plotnick named CBI Research Fellow
Associate professor Rachel Plotnick has been named a Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information and Culture Research Fellow.
CBI is an archives and research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to preserving the history of information technology and promoting and conducting research in the field.
Plotnick has been recognized for her two books “Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing” and “Licensed to Spill: Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.” Both feature major research projects that analyze impacts for design, policy, labor, leisure, cultural, and materiality studies from seemingly mundane human and computer and human and machine interactions.
In her next major project, Plotnick is analyzing and interpreting the physical and digital elements of wearable information bracelets, such as those worn by hospital patients and soldiers, and the vast settings and data infrastructures that support the information provided by these types of bracelets.