The Cloud infrastructure and its extensive set of Internet-accessible resources has potential
to provide significant benefits to robots and automation systems. We consider robots and …

Over the last 10 years, a dispersion of applications of additive manufacturing (AM) into
various fields has emerged. One area in which AM has created a surge of research interest …

What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice?“Design justice” is an
approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to …

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

Abstract The Maker Movement is a community of hobbyists, tinkerers, engineers, hackers,
and artists who creatively design and build projects for both playful and useful ends. There is …

In this essay, Erica Halverson and Kimberly Sheridan provide the context for research on the
maker movement as they consider the emerging role of making in education. The authors …

Additive manufacturing (AM), colloquially known as 3D printing, is currently being promoted
as the spark of a new industrial revolution. The technology allows one to make customized …

Through a comparative case study, Sheridan and colleagues explore how makerspaces
may function as learning environments. Drawing on field observations, interviews, and …

The maker movement has been touted as a harbinger of the next industrial revolution.
Through shared access to tools and digital fabrication technologies, makers can act as …

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling
global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that …