Ted Striphas is Professor and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. He studies the history, culture, and politics of technology, with a focus on the relationship between emergent technologies and patterns of social and linguistic change. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of cultural studies, communication, the digital humanities, and science and technology studies. Striphas holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of New Hampshire.
Striphas’s first book, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control (Columbia University Press, 2009), analyzes the book publishing industry’s decisive role in shaping a modern, connected consumer culture in the United States. Widely reviewed, it received the Book of the Year Award from the National Communication Association’s Critical-Cultural Studies Division. His second book, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (Columbia University Press, 2023), traces the historical entanglement of culture and computation in language long before the technological wizardry of Silicon Valley. The book, along with the research leading up to it, was instrumental in establishing “algorithmic culture” as both an object of study and a widely used term in the English-language lexicon.
His work has been translated into German, Italian, Korean, and Turkish. In addition to serving on multiple book and journal editorial boards, Striphas is co-editor of the field-defining journal Cultural Studies.
