Publications

Journal Articles

Steinhoff, J. and Hind, S. (2024) Simulation and the Reality Gap: Moments in a Prehistory of Synthetic Data. MediArXiv. 1-23. Preprint.
Hind, S., van der Vlist, F. and Kanderske, M. (2024) Challenges as Catalysts: How Waymo’s Open Dataset Challenges Shape AI Development. AI & Society. 0 (0): 1-17. PDF
Hind, S. (2023) Sensor Work: Enabling the Interoperation of Autonomous Vehicles. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 28 (5): 1-10. PDF
Hind, S. and Seitz, T. (2022) Cynical Technical Practice: From AI to APIs. Convergence. 30 (1): 29-48. PDF
Hind, S. and Gekker, A. (2022) Automotive Parasitism: Examining Mobileye’s ‘Car-Agnostic’ Platformisation. New Media & Society. 0 (0): 1-21. PDF
Hind, S., Kanderske, M. and van der Vlist, F. (2022) Making the Car ‘Platform Ready’: How Big Tech is Driving the Platformization of Automobility. Social Media + Society. 8 (2): 1-13. PDF
Hind, S. (2022) Making Decisions: The Normal Interventions of Nissan ‘Mobility Managers’. Mobilities. 17 (4): 467-483. PDF
Hind, S (2021) Dashboard Design and the ‘Datafied’ Driving Experience. Big Data & Society. 8 (2): 1-14. PDF
Götz, M., Hind, S., Lämmerhirt, D., Neumann, H., Och, A-P., Randerath, S. and Seitz, T. (eds.) (2021) In the Spirit of Addition: Taking a ‘Practice+’ Approach to Studying Media. SFB1187 Media of Cooperation Working Paper Series. 18 (June): 1-37. PDF
Hind, S. (2021) Introduction: Taking a ‘Practice+’ Approach. SFB1187 Media of Cooperation Working Paper Series. 18 (June): 2-4. PDF
Hind, S. and Seitz, T. (2021) Agre’s Interactionism. SFB1187 Media of Cooperation Working Paper Series. 18 (June): 22-25. PDF
Gekker, A. and Hind, S. (2020) Re-Valuing Platforms, Reclaiming the Local. AoIR 2020: Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR). October 26-31, 2022. PDF
Hind, S. (2020) On ‘Living in a Box’: Distributed Control and Automation Surprises. Technikgeschichte. 87 (1): 43-68. PDF
Hind, S. (2020) Between Capture and Addition: The Ontogenesis of Cartographic Calculation. Political Geography. 78: 1-9. PDF
Gekker, A. and Hind, S. (2019) Infrastructural Surveillance. New Media & Society. 22 (8): 1414-1436. PDF
Hind, S. (2019) Digital Navigation and the Driving-Machine: Supervision, Calculation, Optimization, and Recognition. Mobilities. 14 (4): 401-417. PDF
Panek, J., Gekker, A., Hind, S., Wendler, J., Perkins, C. and Lammes, S. (2017) Encountering Place: Mapping and Location-Based Games in Interdisciplinary Education. The Cartographic Journal. 55 (3): 285-297. PDF
Hind, S. (2017) Cartographic Care, or, Caretographies. Living Maps Review. 3: 1-14. PDF
Hind, S. (2015) Maps, Kettles and Inflatable Cobblestones: The Art of Playful Disruption in the City. Media Fields. 9: n.p.
Hind, S. and Lammes, S. (2015) Digital Mapping as Double-Tap: Cartographic Modes, Calculations and Failures. Global Discourse. 6 (1-2): 79-97. PDF – see reply by Gavin MacDonald here
Hind, S. and Gekker, A. (2014) ‘Outsmarting Traffic, Together’: Driving as Social Navigation. Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal. 1 (2): 1-17. PDF

Book Chapters

Hind, S. (in press) Automated Mapping Cultures. In The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities (eds. Rossetto, T. and Lo Presti, L.). London: Routledge.
Hind, S. (2023) Care-tographies: Finding Failure in Navigational Settings. In Failurists: When Things Go Awry (eds. Lammes, S., Jungnickel, K., Hjorth, L. and Rae, J.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 100-107. PDF (chapter) and PDF (book)
Hind, S. (2022) Dashboard Design and Driving Data(fication). In Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data (eds. Burkhardt, M., van Geenen, D., Gerlitz, C., Hind, S., Kaerlein, T., Lämmerhirt, D. and Volmar, A.). Bielefeld: Transcript, 251-270. PDF
Burkhardt, M., van Geenen, D., Gerlitz, C., Hind, S., Kaerlein, T., Lämmerhirt, D. and Volmar, A. (2022) Introduction. In Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data (eds. Burkhardt, M., van Geenen, D., Gerlitz, C., Hind, S., Kaerlein, T., Lämmerhirt, D. and Volmar, A.). Bielefeld: Transcript, 9-36. PDF
Hind, S. (2022) Machinic Sensemaking in the Streets: More-than-Lidar in Autonomous Vehicles. In Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time (ed. Rose, G.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 57-80. PDF (chapter) and PDF (book)
Hind, S. (2022) Cartographic Care, or Care-tographies: From London to Hong Kong. In New Directions in Radical Cartography: Why the Map is Never the Territory (eds. Cohen, P. and Duggan M.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 257-282. PDF
Hind, S. (2021) «Nahtlose Autonomie»: Nissans Vision von Interventionen durch Mobilitätsmanager:innen. In Autonomie Autos: Medien- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Zukunft der Mobilität (ed. Sprenger, F.). Bielefeld: Transcript, 283-314. PDF (chapter) and PDF (book)
Hind, S. (2020) Mobile Mapping. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (ed. Kobayashi, A.) (2nd. edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 133-140. DOI and pre-print PDF
Hind S. and Gekker A. (2019) On Autopilot: Towards a Flat Ontology of Vehicular Navigation. In Media’s Mapping Impulse (eds. Lukinbeal, C., Sharp, L., Sommerlad, E. and Escher, A). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 141-160. PDF
Hind, S. (2018) Playing with Politics: Memory, Orientation, and Tactility. In The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagements in a Mediatized Culture (eds. Glas, R., Lammes, S., Lange, M. de., Raessens, J. and de Vries, I.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. PDF
Hind, S. (2016) Territorial Determinism: Police Exercises, Training Spaces and Manoeuvres. In Playful Mapping in the Digital Age (eds. Playful Mapping Collective). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 94-113. PDF
Gekker, A. and Hind, S. (2016) ‚Outsmarting Traffic, Together‘: Driving as Social Navigation. In Playful Mapping in the Digital Age (eds. Playful Mapping Collective). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 78-93. PDF

Books

Hind, S. (expected 2024) Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Burkhardt, M., van Geenen, D., Gerlitz, C., Hind, S., Kaerlein, T., Lämmerhirt, D. and Volmar, A. (eds.) (2022) Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data. Bielefeld: Transcript. PDF
Perkins, C., Lammes, S., Gekker, A., Hind, S., Wilmott, C. and Evans, D. (eds.) (2018) Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities. Manchester: Manchester University Press. PDF
Playful Mapping Collective (2017) A Manifesto for Playful Methods. Self-published. PDF
Playful Mapping Collective (2016) Playful Mapping in the Digital Age. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. PDF

Online

Hind, S. (2021) Experiencing Something. Re-situating Learning: Making Sense of Data, Media and Dis/Unities of Practice. Link
Hind, S. (2016) Driving the Future. Wealth Press: Work and Time Issue. PDF
Hind, S. (2015) Election Reaction: A Left Turn for Labour Now is a Fantasy. Novara Wire. Link
Hind, S. (2015) ‚Print this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets‘: 5 of the Left’s Best Mapping Moments. Novara Wire. Link
Hind, S. (2014) #FuckUber: 8 Reasons Why Uber is Bad for All of Us. Novara Wire. Link

Reviews

Hind, S. (2022) Data Power: Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance. AAG Review of Books. 10 (4): 1-3. PDF
Hind, S. (2020) Governing Future Emergencies: Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service. Convergence. 26 (5-6): 1411-1412. PDF
Hind, S. (2013) Mobile Interface Theory. Cartographica. 48 (3): 253-254. PDF

Press and Interviews (quoted)

Hind, S. (2019) Forscher-Alumni-Galerie: Dr. Sam Hind. University of Siegen Forscher-Alumni, August 1. Link
Nakashima, R. (2018) Why you can’t always trust your handy map app. Associated Press, September 28. Link
O’Brien, M. (2018) Can apps like Waze steer you clear of disaster? Maybe not. Associated Press, September 17. Link

Interviews (conducted)

Miyazaki, S. (2017) Algo-rhythmics. CIM: Out of Data, August 7. Link
Veel, K. (2017) Uncertain Archives. CIM: Out of Data, July 21. Link
Hesselberth, P. (2017) On Disconnection. CIM: Out of Data, February 27. Link
Posavec, S. (2017) Warming Data Up. CIM: Out of Data, February 14. Link

Other

Hind, S. (2015) Sounds from the Other City: Anechoic Chamber. The Modernist: Experiment Issue. Link
Hind, S. (2010) The Misadventures of Tintin: (Post)Colonial Representations and Imaginative Geographies (unpublished UG thesis). PDF