He is a founding editor of the journal Internet Histories and co-editor of Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (2017) and Oral Histories of the Internet and Web (2023). Gerard has a longstanding interest in disability, media and rights– with key books including Digital Disability (2003) and Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2020). With Kuansong Victor Zhuang, he is working on a book project on disability, sociotechnical imaginaries, and politics.
Gerard will be speaking on the historical perspectives panel, Machine Memories, Methods, and Histories.