Gita Manaktala

Executive Editor at Large

Gita acquires books on a wide range of topics and works with the editors of our Information Policy and Strong Ideas series, among others. Her interests include information science, critical data studies, journalism and news, networked communication, privacy, and access to knowledge. Gita can be reached at manak@mit.edu.

Recent Acquisitions:

How We Give Now by Lucy Bernholz, Red Lines by Cherian George and Sonny Liew, The Distance Cure by Hannah Zeavin, Atlas of Forecasts by Katy Börner, Digital Suffragists by Marie Tessier, Command and Persuade by Peter Baldwin, The Digital Environment by Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein, Media Disrupted by Amanda Lotz, The Typographic Medium by Kate Brideau, Annotation by Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia, The Promise of Access by Daniel Greene, Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Coding Democracy by Maureen Webb, Knowledge Justice edited by Sofia Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight, You Are Here by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard, Designing an Internet by David D. Clark, The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust by Kevin Werbach.