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Publications

BOOKS

Humphreys, L. (2018). The qualified self: Social media and the cataloguing of everyday life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Reviewed in European Journal of Communication, Information Communication & Society, JASIST, Symbolic Interactionism

EDITED COLLECTIONS:

Ozkul, D. Haleguoa, G., Wilken, R., & Humphreys, L. (Eds). (2023). Special issue on sensing. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.

Boase, J. & Humphreys, L. (2018). Introduction to special issue on mobile methods. Mobile Media & Communication, 6(2) 153–162. (Corresponding author).

Messaris, P. & Humphreys, L. (Eds.) (2017). Digital media: Transformations in human communication (2nd Edition). New York, Peter Lang.

Humphreys, L. & Gillespie, T. (Eds.). (2014). Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) special issue. Information, Communication, & Society, 17(3).

Logie, J. & Humphreys, L. (Eds.). (2013). AoIR special issue. Information, Communication, & Society. 16(3).

Messaris, P. & Humphreys, L. (Eds.) (2006). Digital media: Transformations in human communication. New York, Peter Lang.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

(* denotes graduate student co-author, ** denotes undergraduate student co-author) Please email me if you want a copy of any paper!

Humphreys, L. (in press). Connected in isolation: How Zoom enabled ritual communication for the digitally privileged during the pandemic lockdown. International Journal of Communication, forum.

Ozkul, D. Haleguoa, G., Wilken, R., & Humphreys, L. (2023). Sensors, media and sensor-mediated communication. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.

Butkowski, C. Chan, N. K. Rodriguez, A*., Berniker, T*. Schlather, K., Zhang, K. M. & Humphreys, L. (2023). Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: Localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 28(5), 1-12.

Cumiskey, K. M., & Humphreys, L. (2023). Social, seamless, just, and open: Advancing mobile communication research. New Media & Society, 25(4), 833-848.

Humphreys, L. (2023). Mobile social media: The challenges and opportunities continue. Mobile Media & Communication.

Butkowski, C*. Chan, N. K. & Humphreys, L. (2022). Community Internet of Things as mobile infrastructure: Methodological challenges and opportunities. Media & Communication, 10(3).

Özkul, D. & Humphreys, L. (2022). Mobile times and temporalities: Histories of geomediation of time. New Media & Society.

Butkowski, C. P.*, Mall, U.* & Humphreys, L. (2022). Computing colorism: The bias in online retail photography. Visual Communication.

Soberiaj, S. & Humphreys, L. (2021). Forced empowerment and the paradox of mobile dating apps. Social Media & Society.

Humphreys, L., Lewis, N., Sender, K., & Stevenson-Won, A. (2021). Qualitative methods and open science: Building more trustworthy communication research. Journal of Communication, Special issue on Open Research.

Soberiaj, S. & Humphreys, L. (2021). The Tinder games: Mobile dating app use and gender conforming behavior. Mobile Media & Communication.

Wilken, R. & Humphreys, L. (2021). Placemaking through the social media app Snapchat. Convergence.

Humphreys, L. & Hardeman, H.* (2021). Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era. Mobile Media & Communication.

Abildgaard, M. S. & Humphreys, L. (2020). The emergence of landline natives. Accounting practices, telephone lines, and infrastructural change in late 20th century landline telephony. Technology & Culture, 61(3): 923-947.

Humphreys, L. (2020). Birthdays, anniversaries, and temporalities: Or how the past is represented as relevant through on-this-date media. New Media & Society, 22(9): 1663-1679.

Wilken, R. & Humphreys, L. (2019). Constructing the check-in: Reflections on photo-taking among Foursquare users. Communication and the Public, 4(2): 100–117.

Humphreys, L., Karnowski, V., & von Pape, T. (2018). Smartphones as metamedia: A framework to identify the niches structuring smartphone use. International Journal of Communication. 12, p. 17. Available at: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/7922

Chan, N. C* & Humphreys, L. (2018). Mediatization of social space and the case of Uber drivers. Media & Communication: Special issue on Media and Social Space: Analyzing Mediation and Power. Available at: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1316

Boase, J. & Humphreys, L. (2018). Introduction to special issue on mobile methods. Mobile Media & Communication, 6(2) 153–162. (Corresponding author).

Humphreys, L. (2017). Involvement shield or social catalyst: Thoughts on socio-spatial impacts of Pokémon Go. Mobile Media & Communication, 5(1): 15-19.

Scolere, L.* & Humphreys, L. (2016). Pinning design: The curatorial labor of creative professionals. Social Media & Society. 2(1): 1-13.

Halpern, M.* & Humphreys, L. (2016). iPhonography: Middlebrow art worlds. New Media & Society. 18(1): 62-81. DOI: 10.1177/1461444814538632

Ozkul, D. & Humphreys, L. (2015). Record and remember: Memory and meaning-making practices through mobile and location media. Mobile Media & Communication, 3(3): 351-365. 

Humphreys, L. & Wilken, R. (2015). Social media, small businesses, and the control of information. Information, Communication & Society, 18(3): 295-309.

Newbury, E.*, Humphreys, L., & Fuess, L.** (2014). Over the hurdles: Barriers to social media use in Extension offices. Journal of Extension, 42(5).

Liao, T.* & Humphreys, L. (2014). Layar-ed places: Using mobile augmented reality to tactically reengage, reproduce, and reappropriate public space. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1461444814527734

Humphreys, L. & Gillespie, T. (2014). Introduction to AoIR special issue. Information, Communication, & Society, 17(3): 283-285DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.873476

Humphreys, L., Gill, P.,* & Krishnamurthy, B. (2014). Privacy on Twitter: A content analysis of personal information. Information, Communication & Society, 17(7), 843-857.

Humphreys, L. & Liao, T.* (2013). Foursquare & the Parochialization of Public Space. First Monday: Special Issue on Media and the Social Production of Urban Space. 18(11). 4 November 2013

Humphreys, L., Von Pape, T., & Karnowski, V. (2013). Evolving mobile media ecology: Uses and conceptualizations of the mobile Internet by American and German college students. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12019

Humphreys, L., Gill, P.,* Krishnamurthy, B. & Newbury, E.* (2013). Twitter & historical diaries: A content analysis. Journal of Communication. 63(3): 413-431. (lead article) DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12030

Humphreys, L. (2013). Mobile social media: Future challenges and opportunitiesMobile Media & Communication. 1(1): 20-25.

Logie, J. & Humphreys, L. (2013). Introduction to AoIR special issue. Information, Communication, & Society. 16(3): 287-290

Shapiro, S.** & Humphreys, L. (2012). Publicizing & personalizing war: A comparison of military blogs to military letters from WWINew Media & Society. doi:10.1177/ 1461444812466718

Humphreys, L. (2012). Connecting, coordinating, cataloguing: Communicative practices on mobile social networksJournal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. 65(4): 494-510.

Humphreys, L. (2011). Who’s watching whom? A study of interactive technology and surveillance. Journal of Communication, 61: 575-595.

Humphreys, L. & Liao, T.* (2011). Mobile Geo-Tagging: Reexamining Our Interactions with Urban SpaceJournal of Computer Mediated Communication. 16(3): 407-423.

Humphreys, L. (2010). Mobile social networks and urban public space. New Media & Society, 12(5): 763-778. doi:10.1177/1461444809349578.

Pollak, J.P.*, Gay, G., Byrne, S., Wagner, E.**, Retelny, D.** & Humphreys, L. (2010). It’s Time to Eat! Using Mobile Games to Promote Healthy EatingIEEE Pervasive Computing, 9(3): 21-27. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2010.41

Humphreys, L. (2007). Mobile social networks and spatial practice: A case study of DodgeballJournal of Computer Mediated Communication, 13(1): article 17.

Humphreys, L. & Barker, T.* (2007). Modernity and the Mobile Phone: Exploring tensions about dating and sex in Indonesia. Journal of Media & Culture, 10(1).

Humphreys, L.  (2005). Cellphones in public: Social interaction in a wireless era. New Media & Society, 7(6): 813-836.

Humphreys, L. (2005).  Reframing social groups, closure, and stabilization in the social construction of technologySocial Epistemology19(2-3): 231-253.

Humphreys, L. (2005). Social topography in a wireless era: The negotiation of public and private spaceJournal of Technical Writing and Communication, 35(3): 367-384.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS & REVIEWS

 

Humphreys, L. (2020). Qualitative sampling and internet research. In Hargittai, E. (Ed.). Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age. New York: Columbia University Press.

Humphreys, L. & Hjorth, L. (2020). Mobile media artifacts: Genealogies, affordances and gestures. In L. Lievrouw & Loader, B (Eds.). Handbook of digital media & communication. London: Routledge.

Butkowski, C.* & Humphreys, L. (2020). Gendered art, work, and self-representation: A comparative analysis of camera-phoneographic and painted self-portraits. In L. Hjorth, A. De Souza E Silva & K. Lanson (Eds). The Routledge companion to mobile media art (pp. 164-173). New York: Routledge.

Humphreys, L., Paley, A.**, & Rinaldi, S.** (2019). Digital media & impression management. In D. Stacks & Eichhorn, K. (Eds.). An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research (pp. 213-222). New York: Taylor & Francis.

Humphreys, L. (2017). Locating locational data in mobile and social media. In M Zimmer& Kinder-Kurlanda, K. (Eds.) Internet Research Ethics of the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges (pp. 245-254). New York: Peter Lang.

Humphreys, L. (2017). Public privacy on social media. In P. Messaris & Humphreys, L. (Eds.) Digital Media: Transformation in Human Communication (second edition) (pp. 348-355). New York: Peter Lang.

De Souza E Silva, A., Ling R. & Humphreys, L. (2016). Location Based Communication. International Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Communication.

Humphreys, L. (2015). Mobile social networks. In R. Manswell & Ang, P. H. (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication & Society. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Humphreys, L. (2013). Mobile social networks and surveillance. In A. Jansson & Christensen, M. (Eds.) Media, surveillance, and identity: A social perspective. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Humphreys, L. (2011). Review of Joseph Reagle Jr’s “Good Faith Collaboration” (MIT Press, 2010). Journal of Communication. 61(2): e1.

Humphreys, L. (2010). Technological Determinism. In S. H. Priest (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication (Vol. 2, pp. 869-872). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Humphreys, L. (2009). “Mobile social networks.” In T. Dumova & R. Fiordo (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends (pp. 22-32)Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Humphreys, L. & Barker, T. (2009). “Modernity and the Mobile Phone: Exploring tensions about dating and sex in Indonesia.” Reprinted in New Age Mobile Telephony Devices – Developments, Trends And Issues. Andhra Pradesh, India: Icfai University Press.

Cappella, J.N.. Mittermaier, D.J.*, Weiner, J., Humphreys, L., Falcone, T., & Giorno, G. (2009). “Coding instructions: An example” in Krippendorff, Klaus & Bock, Mary (eds.), The content analysis reader(pp. 253-266). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc.

Humphreys, L. (2008). “Mobile devices & social networking” in Hartmann, M., Rössler, P., & Höflich, J. (eds.). After the Mobile Phone? Social Changes and the Development of Mobile Communication (pp. 115-130). Berlin: Frank & Timme.

Humphreys, L. & Finlay, C. J.* (2008). “New technologies, new narratives” in Dayan, D. & M. Price’s (eds.) Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (pp.284-306). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Humphreys, L. (2006). “Photos and fieldwork: Capturing norms for mobile phone use in the US”. In J. Höflich & M. Hartmann (Eds.), Mobile Communication in Everyday Life: Ethnographic views, observations, and reflections (pp. 55-78). Berlin, Frank & Timme.

Humphreys, L. (2006). “Images and Online Romance”. In P. Messaris & L. Humphreys (Eds.), Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication (pp. 39-49). New York, Peter Lang.

Messaris, P. & Humphreys, L. (2006). “Introduction.” In P. Messaris & L. Humphreys (Eds.), Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication (pp. XV-XX). New York, Peter Lang.

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Humphreys, L. (2007). Mobile Sociality & Spatial Practice: A Qualitative Fieldstudy of New Social Networking Technologies. PhD Dissertation. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA.

Humphreys, L. (2006). Out with My Mobile: Exploring social coordination in urban environments. Vodafone’s Receiver magazine, Issue 16.

Humphreys, (L). (2003). Can you hear me now?  A field study of cellphone usage in public space. Master’s Thesis. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA.

Turow, J., Coluccio, K., Hersh, A., Humphreys, L., Jacobsohn, L., & Sawicki, N. (2003). “Discussion of Health Websites in Medical and Popular Media” Report to Consumer WebWatch.