Member Publications
2025
Finn, Megan, Youngrim Kim, Ryan Ellis, Amelia Acker, Bidisha Chaudhuri, and Stacey Wedlake. Oops? “Interdisciplinary Stories of Sociotechnical Error| Affective Experiences of Error.” International Journal of Communication, 19 (2025). https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23992.
Lane, Jeffrey, and Yonaira M. Rivera. “Leveraging Digital Spaces and Datafication in Communication Research: Contributions of Digital Qualitative Fluidity to Ethnographic Interviewing.” Journal of Communication (In Press).
Rivera, Yonaira 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, Caitlin, and Nicole Weber. “Platform Analogies: How Bookstores, Libraries, and Supermarkets Can Inform Thinking on Social Media.” International Journal of Communication 18 (2024): 1157–1177. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/20854/4492
Shestakofsky, Benjamin, and Caitlin Petre. “Structures of Capital and Sociotechnical Change: The Case of Tech Startups and Venture Capital.” International Journal of Communication 18 (2024).
2023
Avella, Holly. “TikTok ≠ therapy”: Mediating Mental Health and Algorithmic Mood Disorders.” New Media & Society, 26, 10 (2023) 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, Kaitlin E. “What Happens Next? The Ever-Dreaded ‘Knock’ and Mobile Access Instability for Vehicle Residents.” Mobile Media & Communication 12, 2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579231202693.
2022
Love, Ta’Les, and Youngrim Kim. “Squid Game and the Imagining of Afro-Asian Connections through Black Twitter Memescapes.” Communication, Culture & Critique 15, no. 4 (2022): 552–54. 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, Yonaira M., Meghan Moran, Johannes Thrul, Corinne Joshu, and Katherine 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, Yonaira M., Meghan Moran, Johannes Thrul, Corinne Joshu, and Katherine 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, Caitlin. All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists. Princeton University Press, 2021.
Rivera, Yonaira M, Meghan B Moran, Johannes Thrul, Corinne Joshu, and Katherine C Smith. “When Engagement Leads to Action: Understanding the Impact of Cancer (Mis)Information among Latino/a Facebook Users.” Health Communication 37, no. 9 (2022): 1229–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1950442.
2020
Christin, Angèle, and Caitlin Petre. “Making Peace with Metrics: Relational Work in Online News Production.” Sociologica (Bologna) 14, no. 2 (2020): 133–56. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11178.
Kim, Sunyoung, Lisa Mikesell, Sarah 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. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3329189.3329206.
Lane, Jeffrey. “A Smartphone Case Method: Reimagining Social Relationships with Smartphone Data in the U.S. Context of Harlem.” Journal of Children and Media 14, no. 4 (2020): 407–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2019.1710718.
Lane, Jeffrey, and Will Marler. “Networked Street Life.” In The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media.
Radford, Marie L, Vanessa Kitzie, Stephanie Mikitish, Diana Floegel, Gary P Radford, and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. “‘People Are Reading Your Work,’ Scholarly Identity and Social Networking Sites.” Journal of Documentation 76, no. 6 (2020): 1233–60. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2019-0074.
2019
Radford, Marie L., Vanessa Kitzie, Stephanie Mikitish, Dianna 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, Pär 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 System Sciences (HICSS), 4594-, 2018. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2018.579.
Fadem, Sarah, Sunyoung Kim, Lisa Mikesell, Mark Aakhus, Roger Strair, Jacqueline Manago, and Mary Kate 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): S309–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.12.317.
2011
Radford, Marie L, Gary P Radford, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, and Jocelyn A DeAngelis. “On Virtual Face-Work: An Ethnography of Communication Approach to a Live Chat Reference Interaction.” The Library Quarterly (Chicago) 81, no. 4 (2011): 431–53. https://doi.org/10.1086/661654.
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.
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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