Monographs

Black, Michael L. Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Black, Michael L. “Usable and Useful: IBM’s and Apple’s Attempts to Define Usability in the Early Days of Personal Computing.” Science, Technology, and Human Values. 45.3 (2020): 515-537.

Brown, Nicole M., Ruby Mendenhall, Michael L. Black, Mark Van Moer, Assata Zerai, and Karen Flynn. “In Search of Zora / When metadata isn’t enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women through Statistical Modeling.” Journal of Library Metadata. 19.3-4 (2019): 141-162.

Mendenhall, Ruby, Nicole M. Brown, Michael L. Black. “The Potential of Big Data in Rescuing and Recovering Black Women’s Contributions to the DuBois-Atlanta School and to American Sociology.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40.8 (2017): 1231-1233.

Black, Michael L. “The World Wide Web as Complex Data Set: Expanding the Digital Humanities into the Twentieth Century and Beyond through Internet Research.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 10.1 (2016): 95-109.

Brown, Nicole M., Ruby Mendenhall, Michael L. Black, Mark Van Moer, Assata Zerai, and Karen Flynn. “Mechanized Margin to Digitized Center: Black Feminism’s Contributions to Combatting Erasure within the Digital Humanities.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 10.1 (2016): 110-125.

Black, Michael L. “A Textual History of Mozilla: Using Topic Modeling to Trace Sociocultural Influences on Software Development.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.3 (2015).

Data Gallery for “A Textual History of Mozilla.”

Underwood, Ted, Michael L. Black, Loretta Auvil, and Boris Capitanau. “Mapping Mutable Genres in Structurally Complex Volumes.” Proceedings of the IEEE: Big Data 2013.

Black, Michael L. “Narrative and Spatial Form in Digital Media: A Platform Study of the SCUMM Engine and Ron Gilbert’s The Secret of Monkey Island.” Games and Culture. 7.3 (May 2012): 209-237.

Book Chapters

Black, Michael L. “The World Wide Web as Media Ecology.” Geographies of the Internet. Ed. Barney L. Warf. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020: 34-46.

Littlefield, Melissa and Michael Black. “Critical Receptions: Reading Technology and Literature in the Twentieth Century.” Critical Insights: Technology and Humanity. Ed. Carol Colatrella. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 2012: 46-62.

Other Publications:

Black, Michael L. Review of Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online, edited by Eszter Hargittai and Christian Sandvig. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 37.2 (2018): 7-9.

Black, Michael L. “The World Wide Web.” SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, 3rd Edition. Ed. Barney L. Warf. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2018. 980-985.