Dr. Lindsay Weinberg is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist studies, and media studies, with a focus on the social and ethical implications of digital technologies.
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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 current work focuses on the implications of digital technologies for academic workers and unions, including algorithmic performance management software, generative AI, and classroom surveillance technologies. Her second book, AI and the Future of Academic Labor, co-authored with Dr. Robert Ovetz, is under contract with New York University Press.
She is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Farmingdale State College.
Dr. 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 scholarship has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation, the Indiana Humanities, and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies.
Smart University
Student Surveillance in the Digital Age
Dr. Weinberg's recent book, Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (John Hopkins University Press, 2024), examines the proliferation of digital tools for higher education governance and their impacts on marginalized people within and beyond the university’s walls.
As an scholar, organizer, and a member of the American Association of University Professors ad hoc Committee on AI and Academic Professions, she facilitates workshops to support academic workers and labor organizers at both public and private universities grappling with issues of surveillance and algorithmic management.