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I've written research-based articles, essays, op-eds, and public reports presenting critical perspectives on technology, art, communication, and the humanities. I've also written dozens of Wikipedia articles and enjoy creative and experimental writing for exhibition texts and art/music releases.

Spatial Data Management (Original Score) by Ulla E. Straus and John Andrew Wilhite
Liner notes

Spatial Data Management (Original Score) by Ulla E. Straus and John Andrew Wilhite [liner notes]

Dorothy Howard

Spring 2024

Exhibition text

Whistlegraph: Doodling Clockwork In Lore and Score

Dorothy Howard

April, 2022

Whistlegraph: Doodling Clockwork In Lore and Score
The Labor of Maintaining and Scaling Free and Open-Source Software Projects
Papers

The Labor of Maintaining and Scaling Free and Open-Source Software Projects

R. Stuart Geiger, Dorothy Howard, & Lilly Irani

2021

Papers

Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care

Dorothy Howard & Lilly Irani

2019

Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care
Ethnography, Genealogy, and Political Economy in the Post-Market Era of Free & Open-Source Software
Papers

Ethnography, Genealogy, and Political Economy in the Post-Market Era of Free & Open-Source Software

Dorothy Howard & R. Stuart Geiger

August 13, 2019

Essays

That's Infotainment

Dorothy Howard and Felix Bernstein

January 26, 2016

That's Infotainment
Loving machines: A de-anthropocentric view of intimacy
Essays

Loving machines: A de-anthropocentric view of intimacy

Dorothy Howard

November 2015

Essays

Meet the manga avatars of your favorite tech platforms

Dorothy Howard

September 15, 2015

Meet the manga avatars of your favorite tech platforms
Historicizing Anonymous
Blog posts

Historicizing Anonymous: What Parmy Olson's We are Anonymous and Gabriella Coleman's Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy Tell Us About Trolls

Dorothy Howard

November 21, 2015

Essays

Feed my Feed: Radical Publishing in Facebook Groups

Dorothy Howard

July 22, 2015

Feed my Feed: Radical Publishing in Facebook Groups
Cartooning the Body
Essays

Cartooning the Body

Dorothy Howard and Tim Gentles

February 24, 2015

Art Reviews

Role Reversal: Eduardo Navarro at the New Museum

Dorothy Howard

May 2015

Role Reversal: Eduardo Navarro at the New Museum
Fiction

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Dorothy Howard and Danilo Gasquez Rodriquez

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Troll by Dorothy Howard
Poetry

Troll

Dorothy Howard

2015

Experimental

Hides its Pixels Loosely - Flying on Second Life

Dorothy Howard

2015

Hides its Pixels Loosely: Flying on Second Life by Dorothy Howard