About

info and culture journal cover Information & Culture is an academic journal printed three times a year by the University of Texas Press. It publishes original, high-quality, peer reviewed articles examining the social and cultural influences and impact of information and its associated technologies, broadly construed, on all areas of human endeavor. In keeping with the spirit of information studies, we seek papers emphasizing a human-centered focus that address the role of and reciprocal relationship of information and culture, regardless of time and place. 

The journal welcomes submissions from an array of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited to historical, sociological, psychological, political and educational research that address the interaction of information and culture.

To learn more about our submission standards or submit an article for publication in Information & Culture, visit our submissions page.

ciaran trace

Editor

Ciaran B. Trace is an Associate Professor at the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Higher Diploma in Archival Studies from University College Dublin and a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has taught previously at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Trace’s work explores what constitutes a literate society, and the role that recorded information plays in creating and sustaining literate environments (both personal and professional). Her work has been published in Information and Culture, Archival Science, Archivaria, Archives and Manuscripts, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and the Journal of Documentation. Her work has also appeared in the proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), and the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIST).

andrew dillon

Co-Editor

Andrew Dillon is the V.M. Daniel Professor of Information Studies at the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. A graduate of the National University of Ireland (Cork, B.A. and M.A. first class) and Loughborough University (Ph.D. Psychology), he was appointed Research Fellow at the Human Sciences & Advanced Technology Research Institute in the UK before moving to Indiana University where, amongst other duties, he developed and served as the founding Director of the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Informatic. In 2002 he joined the School of Information at UT-Austin and served here as dean for 15 years. His research centers on human behavior and cognition in the context of information and has been funded by NSF, Microsoft Research, and SLA among others. He has authored more than 100 papers, including four books, and is currently working on a framing of information infrastructures that draws on a richer understanding of humans as users.

selena dickey

Managing Editor

Selena Dickey is a PhD candidate in the University of Texas at Austin’s Radio-TV-Film department. Alongside managing Information & Culture, she also serves as co-managing editor of The Velvet Light Trap and Flow Journal and is the Graduate Student Representative for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies' Media Industries special interest group. Her dissertation focuses on early television distribution infrastructures, particularly the unique ways they became embedded in secluded, remote environments and communities to understand how place shapes and is shaped by sociotechnical and industrial systems.

emily vernon

Editorial Fellow

Emily Vernon is a second-year masters student in the School of Information, where she examines patterns of information dissemination and internalization. She centers much of her research on the politicization of sports, seeing benefit in understanding how activism moves from the digital to the personal realm and how cultural entertainment becomes totemic. In addition to her role at Information & Culture, she is a teaching assistant for a communications course in the Cockrell School of Engineering and a consultant at the University Writing Center, where she enjoys collaborating with students from all disciplines to communicate information in an effective, persuasive, and compelling manner.

amelia acker

Outgoing Senior Book Reviews Editor

Amelia Acker is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. She studies the emergence and standardization of new information objects and data traces communication networks. Currently, she is researching data cultures, information infrastructures and digital preservation contexts that support long-term cultural memory. Amelia’s current research program addresses emerging digital traces and mobile computing cultures that are shaped by new data collection practices amongst different kinds of users, designers, technologists, and institutions. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and has been published in journals such as the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Archival Science, and the Annals of the History of Computing.

james hodges

Incoming Senior Book Reviews Editor

James A. Hodges is Fred M. Bullard Postdoctoral research Fellow at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, as well as an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. His research addresses the materiality of digital evidence, using techniques from digital forensics to examine digital media production and distribution practices. By reverse-engineering digital objects, James has studied the role of uncredited labor in distributing cultural resources ranging from repair manuals to historical archives and pirated software, with research appearing in venues like the Internet History, Information Research, and the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 

elle carnley

IT Student Technician

Elle Carnley is a first-year master’s student in the School of Information, where she studies user experience design and data visualization. She is a graduate of Texas Christian University and specializes in both writing and copyediting. She worked as a copyeditor and researcher for the Texas legislature in the 85th and 86th legislative sessions. Elle is an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, and she spent the summer training her foster dog, a chocolate lab named Mojito.

Advisory Editors

Jean-François Blanchette University of California, Los Angeles

Geoffrey C. Bowker University of California, Irvine

James W. Cortada Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Gerardo Con Diaz University of California, Davis

Gregory Downey University of Wisconsin-Madison

William H. Dutton University of Southern California and Oxford University

Paul N. Edwards Stanford University

Nathan Ensmenger Indiana University

Jonathan Grudin Microsoft Research

Thomas Haigh University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ulf Hashagen Deutsches Museum

Richard R. John Columbia University

Peggy A. Kidwell Smithsonian Institution—National Museum of American History

Cheryl Knott The University of Arizona

Jennifer S. Light Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mara Mills New York University, Steinhardt

Alex H. Poole Drexel University

Craig Robertson Northeastern University

Laura Skouvig University of Copenhagen

Rebecca Slayton Cornell University

Toni Weller De Montfort University

Jeffrey R. Yost Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Editors Emeriti

William Aspray
(2012—2016) 

David B. Gracy II
(2006—2011) 

Donald G. Davis, Jr.
(1976—2006) 

Harold Goldstein
(1970—1976)

Louis Shores
(1966—1969)