Scholarship

Curriculum Vitae (updated January 2026)

Selected Publications:

BOOKS

Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance 
(University of California Press, 2022)

Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects (Palgrave, 2016)

ARTICLES, OP-EDS, ESSAYS, ETC.

“The Tyranny of the Sonic Eye” (co-written with poet Jena Osman) for the exhibition catalogue Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body, March 24, 2026 to January 3, 2027 at the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), Queens, New York. Copyright (c) 2026 by Elisabeth Sherman and Sonia Shechet Epstein. Read the excerpt here.

“Data privacy post-Roe: Companies, and the government, can find out if you are pregnant, or sought an abortion. I learned this the hard way.” Op-Ed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 2022, p. E5. (Headline differs online)

Ebeling, M. (2014) “Marketing Mediated Diagnoses: Turning Patients into Consumers,” in Jutel, A. and Dew, K. (eds.) Sociology of Diagnosis: A Guide for Practitioners. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ebeling, M. (2011) “‘Get with the Program!’: Pharmaceutical marketing, symptom checklists and self-diagnosis,” Social Science and Medicine 73 (2011): 825-832.

Ebeling, M. (2010) “Marketing Chimeras: The biovalue of rebranded medical devices,” in Aronczyk, M. and Powers, D. (eds.) Blowing Up the Brand Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishers. Pp. 241-259.

Other things:

Performance, “Bitches Betrayed, or, Listening as a Life and Death Practice” [with Rachel Ellis Neyra, Wesleyan University] for transient radio show, “Venimos desde el futuro,” recorded at Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 14, 2014.

Performance, “PLMA’s Davenport Predator Material Transfer Agreement,” a performance collaboration with Mauro Zamora and Anita Allyn as part of their show Parallax View, at Vox Populi (9/7-9/30), Philadelphia PA, September 23, 2012.