Save the (White) Whales: Whalesong, the Cetacean Sensorium, and Exceptional Brains

Christina Dunbar-Hester is an interpretive social scientist whose research broadly concerns democratic control of technology. She is the author of Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press); Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton University Press, 2020); and Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism (MIT Press, 2014). Dunbar-Hester holds a PhD in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University, and she is a faculty member in communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.