New Media & Society Working Group
The New Media & Society Working Group is led by Professors Lee Humphreys, Brooke Duffy, and Katherine Sender in the Dept of Communication along with doctoral students who come together to read each others’ research, explore new research, and work through ideas together. Primarily drawing on critical, discursive, and qualitative methods, we explore the role of new media technologies in the world today.
Our current members include Talia Berniker, Maggie Foster, Ria Gualano, Ellie Homant, Colten Meisner, Rosie Nguyen, Beatrys Rodrigues, Megan Sawey, and Lucas Wright.
Previous NM&S members include:
Josh Braun
Chelsea Butkowski
Oliver N K Chan
Dima Epstein
Tarleton Gillespie
Megan Halpern
Caroline Jack
Tony Chung Li Liao
Elizabeth Newbury
Sandy Payette
Oya Yildirim Rieger
Leah Scolere
Recent publications from our group:
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.
Butkowski, C. P.*, Mall, U.* & Humphreys, L. (2022). Computing colorism: The bias in online retail photography. Visual Communication.
Cumiskey, K. M., & Humphreys, L. (2023). Social, seamless, just, and open: Advancing mobile communication research. New Media & Society, 25(4), 833-848.
Butkowski, C*. Chan, N. K. & Humphreys, L. (2022). Community Internet of Things as mobile infrastructure: Methodological challenges and opportunities. Media & Communication, 10(3).
Humphreys, L. (2023). Mobile social media: The challenges and opportunities continue. Mobile Media & Communication.
Duffy, B. E., & Meisner, C. (2023). Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility. Media, Culture & Society, 45(2), 285-304. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221111923
Meisner, C. (2023). The weaponization of platform governance: Mass reporting and algorithmic punishments in the creator economy. Policy & Internet. http://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.359
Meisner, C. (2023). Networked responses to networked harassment? Creators’ coordinated management of “hate raids” on Twitch. Social Media + Society, 9(2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231179696
Meisner, C., Duffy, B. E., & Ziewitz, M. (2022). The labor of search engine evaluation: Making algorithms more human or humans more algorithmic? New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211063860
Özkul, D. Haleguoa, G., Wilken, R., & Humphreys, L. (2023). Sensors, media and sensor-mediated communication. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.
Özkul, D. & Humphreys, L. (2022). Mobile times and temporalities: Histories of geomediation of time. New Media & Society.