Lindsay Weinberg
Prof. Lindsay Weinberg's research and teaching are at the intersection of science and technology studies, media studies, and feminist studies, with a focus on the social and ethical implications of digital technology. She is interested in the constitutive role that history and power relationships play in shaping the design, deployment, and reception of "artificial intelligence" and converging technologies. Students in her courses engage with the impacts of technologies not as given realities, but as challenges to be worked on by all.
Prof. Weinberg's work has appeared in Big Data & Society, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and the Handbook of Critical Studies of AI and Education, among other venues. Her first book, Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (John Hopkins University Press, 2024), examined how digital surveillance perpetuates longstanding injustices in the US higher education system. Her new book project, co-authored with Prof. Robert Ovetz (San José State University), focuses on the implications of "artificial intelligence" for academic workers and examines how academic unions are responding.
Prof. Weinberg has received several external grants to support research, seminars, and workshops concerning the justice-related implications of digital technology, including from the National Science Foundation, the Indiana Humanities, and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies.
Courses Taught
STS 330: Scientific ThinkingSTS 364: The Future of AI: Choices and Challenges
Education
- PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018
- BA, English, Binghamton University, 2012
Publications
- Lindsay Weinberg, Pervasive Monitoring with Educational Technologies in R. Fouché (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society, : Oxford Academic (2026).
- Robert Ovetz and Lindsay Weinberg, AI and the Future of Academic Labour Organizing in W. Holmes (Ed.), Handbook of Critical Studies of AI and Education, : (2026).
- Robert Ovetz and Lindsay Weinberg, Strategies for Organizing: AI in Higher Education in , and A. Ponce Del Castillo (Eds.), overning Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector: Sociotechnical Perspectives, Regulatory Challenges and Working Conditions, : European Trade Union Institute (2026).
- Lindsay Weinberg, Power BI and the Datafication of Danish Higher Education, Big Data & Society, 12(3) 2025.
- Britt Paris, Cynthia Conti-Cook, Daniel Greene, Kyle Jones, Brian Justie, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lindsay Weinberg, Lisa Kresge and Emma May, Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions, commissioned by American Association of University Professors, 2025.
- Lindsay Weinberg, Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age, : John Hopkins University Press (2024).
- Lindsay Weinberg, From Smart Cities to Wise Cities: Studying Abroad in Digital Urban Space, Frontiers: the Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34(2) 2022.
- Lindsay Weinberg, Rethinking Fairness:An InterdisciplinarySurvey of Critiques of HegemonicMLFairness Approaches, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 74 2022.
- Lindsay Weinberg, Mental Health and the Self-Tracking Student, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 7(1) 2021.
- Lindsay Weinberg, Feminist Research Ethics and Student Privacy in the Age of AI, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 6(2) 2020.
- Lindsay Weinberg, The Rationalization of Leisure: Marxist Feminism and the Fantasy of Machine Subordination, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 8(1) 2019.
- Lindsay Weinberg, Personalization Technologies in Her and Feed, Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, 13 2018.
- Lindsay Weinberg, Rethinking Privacy: A Feminist Approach to Privacy Rights after Snowden, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2017.
- Lindsay Weinberg, Target Markets and Logistical Management, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 6(1) 2017.
- Lindsay Weinberg and Anish Vanaik, Invited Eye: Astroveillance and the Digital Complaint, Surveillance and Society,.
