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Megan Sapnar Ankerson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the intersections of new media, visual culture, web history, software studies, memory, time, and media aesthetics. She is the author of 'Dot-com Design: Rise of Usable, Social, Commercial Web' published by New York University Press in 2018. Currently, she is engaged in a research project titled 'Big Data Time Machines: AI, Sci-Fi, Future History', which examines the historicization of large-scale distributed computational systems and neural networks in the context of shifting narrative conventions and significant political concerns. Her work aims to explore how these systems transform everyday experiences and the implications of Big Data on our understanding of past, present, and future.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science