Davide Carpano

 

 

 

I am a sociologist whose research sits at the intersection of economic sociology, science and technology studies, and the history and philosophy of technology.

My research is motivated by a desire to make sense of the disconnect between the liberatory and utopian promises that have accompanied the

spread of computers and the Internet, and the realities of their application within contemporary digital capitalism.

My dissertation investigates the corporate adoption of free and open souce software through a case study of IBM embrace of Linux in the late 1990s. My recent

co-authored paper (w/ Bolun Zhang), "Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source," was published in Big Data & Society

and received an an honorable mention for the American Sociological Association's Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award.

 

I have been an adjunct professor of Technology, Culture, and Society at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering since 2022 where I teach courses on the history of

Silicon Valley, AI and society, and the philosophy of technology.