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Publications

Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques and Christina Holmes (co-editors), STS in Latin America: Beyond Imported Magic, book manuscript under contract with MIT Press.

"Cybernetic Revolutionaries," Cabinet, Summer 2012: 21-27.

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2011. Winner of the 2012 Edelstein Prize for outstanding book in the history of technology and the 2012 Computer History Museum Prize for outstanding book in the history of computing. See reviews of the book.

"Cibernetica Socialista en el Chile de Allende," Situation Room, edited by Pablo de Soto, (Gijon, Spain: LABoral Center for Industrial Art and Creation). Chapter published in Spanish and English.

"Big Blue in the Bottomless Pit: The Early Years of IBM Chile," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30 (2008): 26-41.

"Secret Plan Cybersyn," in Conspire. Transmediale Parcours 1, Edited by Stephen Kovats and Thoman Munz. Frankfurt, Germany: Revolver Press, 2008. Chapter published in English and German.

"Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile," Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 571-606. Winner of the 2007 IEEE Life Member's Prize in Electrical History.

"Ballet Slippers," in Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Edited by Sherry Turkle. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007.

"Computers," in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Edited by Eric Arnesen. New York: Routledge, 2007.

"Computer Memory, Collective Memory: Recovering History Through Chilean Computing," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27 (2005): 102-104.

"Democratic Socialism, Cybernetic Socialism," in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy . Edited by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.

"Beyond the Ballot Box: Computer Science Education and Social Responsibility," Inroads - The SIGCSE Bulletin 36 (2004): 7-10.

Eden Medina and David Mindell, "Engineering and Computer Science in Action: The Structure of Engineering Revolutions," in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines, Edited by Atsushi Akera and William Aspray. Washington, D.C.: Computer Research Associaton, 2004.

"Freedom in Code: The Birth of the Chilean Free Software Movement," ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America 3 (2004): 23-24.


Press

"El libro de Eden Medina: Revolucionarios Cibernéticos, tecnología y política en el Chile de Allende," Terapia Chilensis, DUNA 89.7, October 9, 2012.

"Entrevista Eden Medina," Revista Bits de Ciencia, No. 7 Primer Semestre, 2012.

"Technology Workshop to Focus on Latin America," Herald Times, August 24, 2012.

"Cybernetic Revolutionaries," Icon Magazine, April 1, 2012.

"Outstanding Junior Faculty Award recipients announced for 2011," IU News Room, February 8, 2011.

"Allende, l'informatique et la révolution," Le Monde Diplomatique, July 2010. Also published in Portuguese, Spanish, Persian, Hungarian and Norwegian.

"Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards funding of prestigious Sawyer Seminars to IU faculty," IU News Room, July 28, 2009.

"IU professor analyzes Chile's 'Project Cybersyn'," Live at IU, June 18, 2009. [pdf]

"Les médias disparus: Cybersyn, réseau social," Libération, August 15, 2008. [pdf]

"IU's Eden Medina earns electrical history award for research on Chile’s technology use," IU News Room, October 31, 2007.

"The Objects of Our Desire: Sherry Turkle Explores People's Deep Ties to Everyday Things," The Washington Post, August 23, 2007.

"Doce científicos revisan la época de Augusto Pinochet," El Mercurio, December 12, 2006.

Cybersyn Documentary, Or_am, July 2006.

"Chile's Switched-on Socialism Pioneered Networking in Early '70s," Indiana University News and Media, October 24, 2005.

On the Media, National Public Radio, September 12, 2003.

"Eden Miller: El proyecto Synco: ¿Utopía cibernetica o treinta anos adelantado a su época?" Sociedad y Conocimiento, December 2003.

"Santiago Dreaming," The Guardian, September 2003.

"Proyecto Synco: El Sueño Cibernético de Allende," The Clinic, July 2003.

 

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