Sam Hind is a lecturer in digital media and culture at the University of Manchester. He is based in the department of Art History and Cultural Practices (AHCP), and affiliated with the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media. He is currently Programme Director for the MA in Digital Media, Culture and Society.

He has recently published a monograph on the phenomenon of autonomous driving, Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World (Palgrave, 2024). The book considers how different mapping, sensing, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from computer science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end’ ML models at autonomous vehicle start-ups. 

His research interests include navigational technologies, sensing and the sensor society, AI and machine learning practices, automotive cultures, and mobile play.

He is currently researching autonomous driving, the phenomenon of 'challenges' in AI, the history of computer simulation, and the platformization of automobility.

He co-convenes DIGI61331 Digital Methods with Giulia Grisot, and convenes DIGI61112 AI, Algorithms and Society.

He joined the University of Manchester in October 2022, and was previously research associate in SFB1187 Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen, Germany. He received his PhD from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK.

For PhD enquiries broadly related to the above research topics, email [email protected]

For more details: https://samhind.com/