Program

Junior Dare
Accumulating Names: The Poetry of Prismatic Identity as Hot Process not Hot Mess

Corey Gilmore
GPOY, or Gendered Presentation of Yourself: What Transgender Selfies Do For the Transgender Self

Brian Callahan
Diverse Be-longings: Trans Hacker Collectives as New Sites of Tech Diversity Understandings

Rachel Stonecipher
'How to Be Gay' on Autostraddle: The New Separatism and Counterpublic Strategy

Chris Peterson
Imagining an Internet Worth Filtering: Mapping the Geography of Censorship in Alabama Public Schools and Libraries

Jonathan Karp
The Right to Rename

Matthew Tiessen
Big Data and the Digital Remediation of Human/Nature Relations

Shannon Sindorf
Guns and the myth of the post-geographic web

Tyler Tracy
co-authored by R. Stuart Geiger
Materializing Crypto-Anarchy: Political Economy at the Intersection of 3D Printing and Digital Piracy

Laura Norén
Quitting “Toxic Open Source Communities”: Towards a theory of disengagement among regular Open Source contributors

Emma Stamm
Block Party People: Off The (Bitcoin) Chain

Morgan Morel
Type AMEN if you believe! Embodied Belief and the Digital Mediation of Religious Fervor

Carmel Vaisman
'Forget What You Know About Disability': How Cyborg & Transhuman discourses are reconfiguring disability

Minka Stoyanova
co-authored by David Shane Smith
21st Century Feminism is Cyborgism

Karen Levy
Refractive Surveillance: New Data Ecologies in the Workplace

Karina Russ
On Being Warrant Proof

Matthew Crain
The transparency trap: Data brokers and the limits of consumer empowerment

Joan Donovan
The Ferguson Effect

Eve Ahearn
Locating the Person in Personal Data: A Comparison of Open Government Data Implementation in the U.S. and the U.K.

Algorithmic Taste Makers: Reworking the Concept of Cultural Intermediaries for the Digital Age

Nick Seaver
co-authored by
Totemic Operators

Meredith Salisbury
The #nofilter self: The contest for authenticity among social networking sites, 2003-2015

Eman Shahata
You Can’t Chat with Us

Joseph Reagle
Geek Policing: Fake Geek Girls and Contested Attention

Heather Holmes
Image Pruning in the Digital Ecology

Natalie Saltiel
co-authored by Maggie Mayhem
Digital Witness: Trust and Surveillance in Interpersonal Relationships

Tony Liao
The New Augmented Labor: The Shifting Promise of Wearable Augmented Reality to Industrial/Enterprise Applications

Ruth Tsuria
"Dear Rabbi, I can’t stop Masturbating" – The Construction and Negotiation of Gender and Sexual Norms in Orthodox Jewish Online Discourse

Mahsa Alimardani
Repertoires of Online Activism for the Women's Movement

Izul Zulkarnain
"Nationalistic Networked Publics": The Use of Social Media as a Nationalistic Platform in Indonesia

Achim Koh
co-authored by Lil Miss Hot Mess
The Year 2015 in Korean Online Feminism: Two Movements Against Misogyny

Brooke Erin Duffy
Female Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy: Worker Subjectivities Refracted through an Instagram Filter

Niels van Doorn
Overworked and Underpaid: On the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-wage service workers in our ascendant 'gig economy'

Lucas G. Pinheiro
The Absent Factory: Rethinking Marxist Theories of Informational Capitalism

Emily Hund
Audience metrics and creative labor

Lyle St
im stressed about making this video: Performing a Body of Knowledge in YouTube Makeup Tutorials

Anastasia Tuazon
Queering Narcissism: Reinterpreting the Politics of Self-Imaging in Feminist Art

Penelope Papailias
HumanityWashedAshore: Social media memorials and the politics of affect online

Tim Highfield
On (the) loop: The animated GIF and cultural logics of repetition

Larkin Hiott
Remediating Feminized Whiteness: The Racial Politics of YouTube “Boy Beauty” Vlogs

Aria Dean
White People Be Like: Race and the Instagram Meme

Sara Lillo
Culture of Image-Makers: College Partiers' Constructions of Physical Experiences in the Digital World

Ludmila Lupinacci
Bitter about Glitter: Brazilians’ hatred towards sparkly animated GIFs as a manifestation of ethnocentrism

Elizabeth Newton
The Mixed Metaphors of Digital Music Content

Paula Harper
'UNMUTE THIS': Ubiquitous Listening and Vernacular Media Theory

Meredith Graves
 

Alexandra Molotkow
 

Geoff Shullenberger
Mimetic Desire and Venture Capital: René Girard, Peter Thiel, and the Uses of Theory

Alex Worrad-Andrews
What Does Facebook Want From React?

Kendra Albert
Put Down the Talismans: Abuse-Handling Systems, Legal Regimes and Design

Textual Community: Finding Belonging in the Manosphere

Marcella Szablewicz
Winning at #Failing: The Viral Appeal of Loser Culture in Urban China

Anna Jobin
Year in Search: relevance and limitations

Scott Wark
The Meme is in Circulation

Samantha Culp
Taobao-haus: Chinese digital aesthetics and global contemporary art

Megan Farnel
Archives of Feeling, Archives of Work: On the Feminized, Affective Labours of Gamergate

Stuart Geiger
Moderating harassment in Twitter with blockbots: a counterpublic and algorithmic strategy

Md Nabil
From sex tapes to revenge porn: Construction of a genre

Natalie Kane
All's Well That Means Well

Jenna Burrell
 

Jenny Odell
 

Aaron Straup Cope
 

Matthew Hockenberry