It’s out! 🎉 My new paper is published.
I examine how Instagram users practice digital vigilantism to fight botting & porn bots — taking authenticity governance into their own hands. The study highlights user-driven surveillance and platform power asymmetries.
Part of the special issue “Digital Platforms and Agency” in Lateral (CSA), edited by Reed van Schenck & Elaine Venter.
#PlatformGovernance #DigitalCulture #InternetStudies #culturalstudies
I wrote a conceptual microchapter on Representation for Practicing Digital Ethnography. the book isn't published yet but it looks like it is already on Google Books and my whole microchapter is available. Here is the link in case you are interested: https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=HR-dEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage
Practicing Digital Ethnography offers a comprehensive introduction to the essential methods, concepts, and practices of conducting ethnographic research in digital environments.Written by 60 global contributors across 12 chapters with accompanying case studies and concept explorations, this book provides both theoretical foundations and practical guidance for digital ethnographic work. It covers research approaches for diverse digital contexts, including social media, virtual spaces, video games, and hybrid physical-technological settings, while addressing the deployment of tools like artificial intelligence, big data, mapping technologies, and multimodal methodologies. This book examines ethical challenges specific to digital research environments while maintaining a commitment to reflexive, co-present research that acknowledges how our interactions with digital technologies transcend boundaries of citizenship, race, gender identity, age, and ability.Practicing Digital Ethnography is ideal for students and researchers in anthropology, media studies, science and technology studies, and communications who seek to understand contemporary hyper-mediated environments, as well as professionals outside academia who need practical, accessible guidance for conducting rigorous digital research.
Hoy empieza mi viaje a la Feria Internacional del Libro en Guadalajara para presentar el nuevo libro de Adriana.
Delighted to announce CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend & close collaborator) Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz's (Con's) stellar new book is out (got to read it early & blurb it).
Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World.
Congrats Con! #copyright #copyrightlaw #internetstudies #mediastudies
@histodon
@commodon
@anthropology
@law
@sociology
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/
Early academic works on the #internet, such as those by @hrheingold or Castells, merged visions of digital transformation w/ critical perspectives, influencing both its technological development & conceptual understanding.
🔦December's #OpenAccess article in the spotlight examines these texts: how did their themes and discourses influence #InternetStudies and popular imaginaries of digital technology?
📣 Read our interview with @NathalieFridz
How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me
#ai #genai #chatgpt #midjourney #mediastudies #internetstudies #artificialintelligence
Glad to be part of new #openaccess book on "Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society" edited by @gastev @kfvanes @TraceyPLauriault on @AmsterdamUPress.
Here's my chapter on “Speculative Data Infrastructures: Prototyping a Public Database on Corporate Tax Avoidance”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/11/speculative-data-infrastructures
#mediastudies #taxjustice #taxavoidance #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #teaching #commodon #sts #newmedia #internetstudies
new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and @kfvanes has just been published in Convergence: https://jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/pluralising-ctp
we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out 👀 https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/
#criticaltechnicalpractice
#internetstudies #datastudies #artificialintelligence #digitaldevices #digitalmethods #inventivemethods #feministsts #newmedia #commodon #sts
Nathalie Schäfer
Serhat Tutkal
iván
Jeffrey Yost
Eleanor Sandry (elsand)
Centre for Digital Culture
UniversityofGroningenLibrary
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨