Neda Atanasoski is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland. Nassim Parvin is an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.

Prologue ix
Acknowledgments xi
Interview with ChatGPT xv
Introduction / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 1
1. Maintenance Play / Antonia HernÁndez 27
Artist Contribution: “The Embodied Self” / Marjan Khatibi 39
Interlude: Smart Dust / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 43
2. Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-immigration and Citizen Science in Boundary Making / IvÁn Chaar LÓpez 51
3. Hesitancy, Solidarity, and Whiteness: The Limits and Possibilities of Rape-Reporting Apps / Renee Shelby 67
4. Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present / Erin McElroy 79
Artist Contribution: “Thousand Dreams of Yamur” / Hayri Dortdivanlioglu 95
Interlude: Smart Homes / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 99
5. “Reading the Room”: Messy Contradictions in the Datafied Home / Tanja Wiehn 113
6. Surveillance Vigilantes: Property, Porch Pirates, and Paranoia on Nextdoor / Jessica L. Olivares 127
7. Alexa, Disability, and the Politics of Things Not Apprehended / Jennifer A. Hamilton 149
Artist Contribution: “Masks, Mirrors, Light and Shadow” / Vernelle A. A. Noel 161
Interlude: Smart Desires / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 163
8. Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps / Tamara Kneese 175
9. “So Creepy It Must Be True!”: Techno-Orientalism, Technonationalism, and the Social Credit Imaginary / Jacob Hagelberg 189
10. Resistant Resonances: Vocal Biomarkers, Transductive Labor, and the Politics of Things Not Heard / Beth Semel 207
Artist Contribution: “Streetsmarts” by Katherine Bennett 223
Interlude: Smart Forests / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 225
11. Animal-Vegetal-Technology: Creeping Categories / Sushmita Chatterjee 239
Artist Contribution: “Close Your Eyes” by Sanaz Haghani 255
Epilogue: Dreaming Feminist Futures / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 257
Bibliography 265
Contributors 283
Index