Jeff Nagy

Jeff Nagy is a historian of computing whose research focuses on exchanges between computing and the behavioral sciences from World War II to the present. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University, where his dissertation, Watching Feeling: Emotional Data from Cybernetics to Social Media, told the story of how emotion was made computable. Other interests include disability in the history of science and technology, the social integration of emerging technologies, and the history and future of computer-mediated labor. His research has appeared in Technology & Culture, New Media & Society, and elsewhere.