
My work draws on historical approaches to digital
technology, examining seemingly contemporary technological phenomena through a critical
and longitudinal lens. This research is in conversation with media studies, information studies, and the field of science, technology and
society, while incorporating a variety of methods, including interviews,
archival research, participant observation, network analysis, and
critical/cultural analysis.
My current projects fall under three areas:
︎ Digital technologies over time
︎ Historical approaches to digital media
︎ Big data environments and epistemology
My current projects fall under three areas:
︎ Digital technologies over time
Topics like digital data storage and preservation, along with social and cultural theories of technological novelty and obsolescence.
︎ Never forget? Memory maintenance on an aging platform. Convergence.
︎ Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end. Internet Histories.
︎ Op-Ed: Yahoo! Answers is shutting down and taking a record of my teenage self with it. LA Times.
︎ Screenshot, save, share, shame: Making sense of new media through screenshots and public shame. First Monday.
︎ Historical approaches to digital media
Historicizing contemporary digital media forms and practices, often to explore the ways that forms of power persist in what are otherwise considered ‘new’ media technologies.
︎ The sociotechnical imaginaries of 1968. International Journal of Communication.
︎ “LADY U SEND ME YR MOVIE:” Constructing Joanie 4 Jackie’s feminist distribution network. Feminist Media Studies.
︎ Capture it while you can: Revisiting SIGCOMM 99’s ‘Technical History of the Internet’. Computer Communication Review.
︎ Big data environments and epistemology
How the storage, collection, combination and analysis of large datasets reflects and shapes ways of knowing.
︎ Intersectionality, In Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data.
︎ A Framework for dataset deprecation: Standardizing documentation, identification, and communications. ACM FAccT.