Latest News
April 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Claire Fitch on finishing her PhD at The University of Texas at Austin!
January 2026
We're happy to announce the publication of BTL research in Platforms & Society. Iván Chaar López and Odalis Garcia Gorra's "Cruel Optimization: People Analytics and Platforms of Care" scrutinizes "how the technopolitics of user configurations in contemporary work platforms ensconce surveillance and labor governance through the non-innocence of care."
November 2025
The Border Tech Lab will offer a group talk on November 6th at 1pm CT as part of the Perry Castañeda Library's Digital Scholars in Practice series at The University of Texas at Austin. We will discuss our ongoing research on Austin's semiconductor industry and Texas' computing infrastructure.
September 2025
Claire Fitch presented research from the Border Tech Lab at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Seattle. She examined the techno-capitalist and settler colonial arrangements at the heart of Austin, Texas' semiconductor industry.
May 2024
The Feminist Cyberlaw (open access) volume is out with amazing entries tackling how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and its intersections affect and are affected by cyberspace and the laws governing it. Iván and Victoria have a piece on "Artificial Intelligence, Microwork, and the Racial Politics of Care" you can read here (open access).
February 2024
Iván and Odalis workshopped an article manuscript with the Critical Digital Studies Group at the University of Texas at Austin. The manuscript is based on research conducted with the lab for the past two years about the future of work and people analytics as technopolitical regimes.