Publications

In reverse chronological order.

2014 (expected)

  •  BOOK: Famous to Fifteen: Micro-celebrity, Social Media and the Politics of the Branded Self. Book-length manuscript in process.
 2013 (in process)
  • CHAPTER: Race, YouTube, and Sh*t People Say.” In Routledge Handbook of Social Media. Eds. Jeremy Hunsinger and Theresa Senft. Routledge: 2013. Pre-production draft is here.
  • CHAPTER: “Affect and the Old Spice Guy: A Tale of Tactility and Distraction.” In Networked Affect. Eds. Ken Hillis and Sussanah Passonen. MIT Press: 2013. My proposal is here.
  • CHAPTER: “Re-thinking Diasporic Media: Lessons from Post-Neda Iran,” with Sanaz Rajiv. This will appear in Digital Diasporas and Transnational Social Movements, edited by Radhika Gajalla. My proposal is here.

2012 

  • CHAPTER: “Microcelebrity and the Branded Self.” In Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics. Eds. Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns. Blackwell. 2012. PDF available here.
  • CHAPTER: “Love in the Time of Snuff: Critical Internet Studies meets the ‘Neda video.’” In New Visualities, New Technologies: The New Ecstasy of Communication, Eds. Hille Koskela and J. Macgregor Wise. Blackwell. 2012. PDF available here.

2011

  •  CHAPTER: “Four Rooms.” In VOICE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Art and Media. Eds. Norie Neumark, Ross Gisbson, and Theo Van Leeuwen. MIT Press, 2010. PDF available here.

 2010

  • ESSAY: “Microcelebrity, and Credit in an Attention Economy.” Essay commissioned by Berkman Center, Harvard University, Spring 2010. NOTE: For reasons connected to their web presence, this essay was never published, but you can read the PDF, here.

2008

2003

  • TWENTY ARTICLES: Encyclopedia of New Media(Ed. Steve Jones, New York: Sage, 2003.) Contributed twenty articles to this project.

 2002

  • CHAPTER: “Shockingly Tech-splicit: Orlan and the Politics of Shock in a Digital Age.” In Reload: Rethinking Women and Technology. Mary Flannagan, ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. PDF available here

2001

  • Newspaper essay: “Debating Reality: An Online Hoax is Not a Pox.” The New York TImes, June 14, 2001. Online here.
  • Magazine essay: “Antwerp Perverts.” Nerve Magazine. PDF here.

2000

  • CHAPTER: “Baud Girls and Cargo Cults” In World Wide Web and Contemporary Theory. Thomas Swiss and Andrew Herman, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2000. PDF available here.

1999

1998

  • ESSAY: “Dialing.” In Strategic Sex: Why They Can’t Keep it in the Bedroom.  PDF available here.

1997

  • CHAPTER: “Spare Parts.” In The Ends of Performance. Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane, Eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997. PDF available here.
1996
  • JOURNAL ISSUE:  “Sexuality and Cyberspace: Performing the Digital Body”. Special Issue of Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Winter 1996. Collection available here.
  • CHAPTER: “Modem Butterfly.” With Kaley Davis in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 17, Spring 1997. PDF available here.

1995

  • JOURNAL ARTICLE: Gayatri Spivak and the Dark Continent of French Feminism.” In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 14, Spring 1995. PDF available here.
  • MAGAZINE ARTICLE. “Of Women and Dogs.” Stim, Spring 1995. PDF here.

1993

  • JOURNAL ARTICLE: “What’s Love Got to Do With It? Reading Linda/Les and Annie Through Lacan.” In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 11, Spring 1993. You can purchase a copy, here.