Member Publications

2025

Finn, Megan, Youngrim Kim, Ryan Ellis, Amelia Acker, Bidisha Chaudhuri, and Stacey Wedlake. "Affective Experiences of Error." International Journal of Communication. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23992.

Lane, Jill, and Yessenia M. Rivera. "Leveraging Digital Spaces and Datafication in Communication Research: Contributions of Digital Qualitative Fluidity to Ethnographic Interviewing." Journal of Communication (In Press).

Rivera, Yessenia M., Monica Moran, and Kelly C. Smith. "Exploring the Role of Culture and Cognitive Heuristics in Assessing the Credibility of Cancer (Mis)information on Facebook Among U.S. Latinos." Health Communication (In Press).

2024

Kim, Youngrim. "Data Publics." In Keywords of the Datafied State, edited by Jessica Burrell, Rajiv Singh, and Paul Davidson, 65–77. Data & Society, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4734250.

Kim, Youngrim, Megan Finn, Amelia Acker, Bidisha Chaudhuri, Stacey Wedlake, Ryan Ellis, and Janaki Srinivasan. "Epistemologies of Missing Data: COVID Dashboard Builders and the Production and Maintenance of Marginalized COVID Data." Big Data & Society 11, no. 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241259666.

Petre, Carsten, and Nathan Weber. "Platform Analogies: How Bookstores, Libraries, and Supermarkets Can Inform Thinking on Social Media." International Journal of Communication 18 (2024): 1157–1177.

Shestakovsky, B., and Carsten Petre. "Structures of Capital and Sociotechnical Change: The Case of Tech Startups and VCs." International Journal of Communication 18 (2024): 800–807.

2023

Avella, Holly. "'TikTok ≠ therapy': Mediating Mental Health and Algorithmic Mood Disorders." New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221147284.

Kim, Youngrim, Yuchen Chen, and Fan Liang. "Engineering Care in Pandemic Techno-Governance: The Politics of Care in China and South Korea's COVID-19 Tracking Apps." New Media & Society 25, no. 6 (2023): 1432–1450. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211020752.

Montague, Katie E. "What Happens Next? The Ever-Dreaded ‘Knock’ and Mobile Access Instability for Vehicle Residents." Mobile Media & Communication (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579231202693.

2022

Love, Terri, and Youngmin Kim. "Squid Game and the Imagining of Afro-Asian Connections Through Black Twitter Memescapes." Communication, Culture, & Critique 15, no. 4 (2022): 552–554. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac041.

Marler, Will. "‘You Can Connect with Like, the World!’: Social Platforms, Survival Support, and Digital Inequalities for People Experiencing Homelessness." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 27, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmab020.

Rivera, Yessenia M., Monica Moran, Johannes Thrul, Caitlin Joshu, and Kelly C. Smith. "Contextualizing Engagement with Health Information on Facebook: Using the Social Media Content and Context Elicitation Method." Journal of Medical Internet Research 24, no. 3 (2022): e25243. https://doi.org/10.2196/25243.

Rivera, Yessenia M., Monica Moran, Johannes Thrul, Caitlin Joshu, and Kelly C. Smith. "When Engagement Leads to Action: Understanding the Impact of Cancer (Mis)information Among Latino Facebook Users." Health Communication 37, no. 9 (2022): 1229–1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1950442.

2021

Connaway, Lynn S., and Marie L. Radford. Research Methods in Library and Information Science, 7th ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2021.

Marler, Will. "‘You Can’t Talk at the Library’: The Leisure Divide and Public Internet Access for People Experiencing Homelessness." Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2006742.

Petre, Carsten. All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists. Princeton University Press, 2021.

Rivera, Yessenia M., Monica Moran, Johannes Thrul, Caitlin Joshu, and Kelly C. Smith. "When Engagement Leads to Action: Understanding the Impact of Cancer (Mis)information Among Latino Facebook Users." Health Communication. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10410236.2021.1950442?journalCode=hhth20.

2020

Christin, Angèle, and Carsten Petre. "Making Peace with Metrics: Relational Work in Online News Production." Sociologica 14, no. 2 (2020): 133–156. https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/11178.

Kim, Sooyeon, Linda Mikesell, Stephen Fadem, and Mark Aakhus. "Designing a Personalized Support Tool for Patients Facing Bone Marrow Transplant." In Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 41–50. Trento, Italy. doi.org/10.1145/3329189.3329206.

Lane, Jill. "A Smartphone Case Method: Reimagining Social Relationships with Smartphone Data in the US Context of Harlem." Journal of Children and Media 14, no. 4 (2020): 407–421.

Lane, Jill, and Will Marler. "Networked Street Life." In The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media.

Radford, Marie L., Valerie Kitzie, Sarah Mikitish, Donna Floegel, and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. "People Are Reading Your Work,” Scholarly Identity and Social Networking Sites." Journal of Documentation 76, no. 6 (2020): 1233–1260. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2019-0074.

2019

Radford, Marie L., Valerie Kitzie, Sarah Mikitish, Donna Floegel, and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. "People Need a Strategy: Exploring Attitudes of and Support Roles for Scholarly Identity Work Among Academic Librarians." In Proceedings of the Association of College & Research Libraries 2019 Conference, edited by Dawn M. Mueller, 594–605. Cleveland, OH. http://www.ala.org/acrl/conferences/acrl2019/papers.

2018

Aakhus, Mark, Per Ågerfalk, and Fredrik Lennmyr. "Digital Innovation as Design of Digital Practice: Doctors as Designers in Healthcare." In Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, 4594–4601. Manoa, HI.

Fadem, Stephen, Sooyeon Kim, Linda Mikesell, Mark Aakhus, Ronald Strair, Joseph Manago, and Mary K. McGrath. "Personalizing Decision Support for AML Patients by Incorporating Experienced Patient Videos About Treatment Outcomes." Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 24, no. 3 (2018): S309–S310. Elsevier Inc. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.12.317.

2011

Radford, Marie L., Gary P. Radford, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, and Joseph A. DeAngelis. "On Virtual Face-Work: An Ethnography of Communication Approach to a Live Chat Reference Interaction." The Library Quarterly 81, no. 4 (October 2011): 431–453.

Qualitative Sociology: Special Issue “Digital Ethnography” (2022)

The special issue features an introduction by guest editors Jeffrey Lane & Jessa Lingel, an afterword by Mario Small, and seven empirical articles that use digital ethnographic methods to answer core sociological questions related to community, culture, urban life, violence, activism, professional identity, health, and sociality.

ONLINE FIRST ARTICLES

INTRODUCTION

Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity

Jeffrey Lane & Jessa Lingel

ARTICLES

Diagnosis as Subculture: Subversions of Health and Medical Knowledges in the Orthorexia Recovery Community on Instagram

Amy A. Ross Arguedas

Do I Know You? Managing Offline Interaction in Acquainted Stranger Relationships

Tyler Baldor

Convivial Quarantines: Cultivating Co-presence at a Distance

Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley, Michaela DeSoucey, & Gary Alan Fine

Exploring Social Media Contexts for Cultivating Connected Learning with Black Youth in Urban Communities: The Case of Dreamer Studio

Jabari M. Evans

Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Elisabetta Ferrari

Code Ethnography and the Materiality of Power in Internet Governance

Fernanda R. Rosa

How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts

Jeffrey Lane & Forrest Stuart

AFTERWORD

Ethnography Upgraded

Mario L. Small

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