Selected Publications

New and Forthcoming

New: “Measuring AI’s Environmental Impacts Requires Empirical Research and Standards.” Tech Policy Press, February 12, 2024, https://www.techpolicy.press/measuring-ais-environmental-impacts-requires-empirical-research-and-standards/.

New: “Measuring Justice: Field Notes on Algorithmic Impact Assessments,” Data & Society Points, January 10, 2024, https://medium.com/datasociety-points/measuring-justice-field-notes-on-algorithmic-impact-assessments-c6cfeccc668d.

New: “Memento Mori: Making Kin with AI at the End of the World,” The Baffler, January 2024, https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/memento-mori-kneese.

“Subtle Misogyny Detection and Mitigation: An Expert-Annotated Dataset,” Spotlight Submission, SoLaR, NeurIPS 2023, https://openreview.net/forum?id=5hY19x1hdq.

“Observers Observed: The Ethnographer in Silicon Valley,” Crooked Timber, November 9, 2023, https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/09/observers-observed-the-ethnographer-in-silicon-valley/.

“Dead Links.” Public Books, October 31, 2023, https://www.publicbooks.org/dead-links/.

"Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living.” Wired, August 21, 2023, https://www.wired.com/story/using-generative-ai-to-resurrect-the-dead-will-create-a-burden-for-the-living/.

Kneese, T. (2023). Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond. Yale University Press.

Critical Carbon Computing Collective (4C). (2023). Special issue of Branch Magazine on Critical Carbon Computing. https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5/.

Kneese, T. (2023). Climate Justice and Labor Rights” report, Part 1: AI Supply Chains and Workflows and Part II: Labor Organizing and Environmental Justice in Tech, Past and Present. AI Now Research Institute.

Brody, A., Kneese, T. & Frizzo-Barker, J. (2023). “Building Blockchain Frontiers: Ethereum as an Extension of the Californian Ideology.” International Journal of Communication, https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19340.

Green Software Foundation’s State of Green Software report (author and lead researcher): https://stateof.greensoftware.foundation/.

Scholarly

Kneese, T. (2022). “Imagining a Better Internet.” Issues in Science & Technology, Fall 2022, https://issues.org/imagining-better-internet-driscoll-forum/.

Kneese, T. (2022). “Data Infrastructures of the Dead.” Heliotrope, September 28, https://www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/data-infrastructures-of-the-dead .

Kneese, T., Palm, M, & Ayres, J. (2022). “Selling in Place: The Home as Virtual Storefront,” Media, Culture & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437211045348 .

Kneese, T. (2022). “‘They’re Describing Yelp in 1992!’: Revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village.” Internet Histories. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2022.2049069?src=.

Raval, N., Qadri, R., Wong, R., Kneese, T., and Hanna, A. (2022). “Considerations for Building Solidarity among Academic and Tech Workers: Thinking through access, positionality and limits to collective action.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 153, 1–3.9 https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516511.

Dawdy, S.L. and Kneese, T. (2022). The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research/University of New Mexico Press. Order here.

Kneese, T. (2021). “Breakdown as Method: Screenshots for Dying Worlds.” Media Theory. http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/150/133.

Kneese, T. (2021). “Keep It Oakland: E-Commerce Meets Social Justice.” Media, Culture & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437211048342.

Kneese, T. (2021). “Hustling After Death: Covid-19 and Platform Necropolitics.” Selected Papers of #AOIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. “When Death Depends on Networked Information” panel, https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12111/10462.

Kneese, T. (2021). “Review of Your Computer is on Fire,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, September 22, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9546091?source=authoralert.

Kneese, T. (2021). “Our Silicon Valley, Ourselves,” boundary 2, August 6, https://www.boundary2.org/2021/08/tamara-kneese-our-silicon-valley-ourselves/.

Kneese, T. (2021). “Precarity Beyond the Gig: From University Halls to Tech Campuses.” In Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence. Edited by Brian Dolber, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Todd Wolfson. Routledge: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003140054-21/precarity-beyond-gig-tamara-kneese.

Kneese, T. & Palm, M. (2020). “Brick-and-Platform: Listing Labor in the Digital Vintage Economy.” Social Media + Society. Special collection on the “Platformization of Cultural Production.” Edited by Brooke Erin Duffy, David Nieborg, and Thomas Poell. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305120933299.

Special Issue of Social Text on “Radical Care” (co-edited with Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart). https://www.dukeupress.edu/radical-care. Read our introduction to the special issue here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article/38/1%20(142)/1/160171/Radical-CareSurvival-Strategies-for-Uncertain.

Kneese, T. (2019). “Death, Disrupted.” Continent 8(1-2). Special issue on Apocryphal Technologies. https://continentcontinent.cc/archives/issues/issue-8-1-2-2019/death-disrupted .

Gregg, M. & Kneese, T. (2019). “Clock”. In The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Edited by Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, and Claus Pias. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-media-technology-and-organization-studies-9780198809913?q=Media%2C%20Technology%2C%20and%20Organization%20Studies&lang=en&cc=pl.

Kneese, T. (2019). Review of Death and Digital Media by Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, and Bjorn Nansen, with an afterword by Elizabeth Hallam. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13109.

Kneese, T. (2019). “Networked Heirlooms: The Affective and Financial Logics of Digital Estate Planning.” Cultural Studies 33(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2018.1466904.

Kneese, T. (2018). “Mourning the Commons: Circulating Affect in Crowdfunded Funeral Campaigns.” Social Media + Society. Special issue on Mediatization of emotion on social media: forms and norms in digital mourning practices. Edited by Korina Giaxoglou and Katrin Döveling. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305117743350

Merid, B. & Kneese, T. (2018). “Introduction: Special Section on Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29627/html.

Korn, J. U. & Kneese, T. (2015). “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Feminist Approaches to Social Media Research: History, Activism, and Values.” Feminist Media Studies 15(4), 707-710. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1053713.

Kneese, T. (2017). “Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work.” Chapter in Death Rites, Memory, and Authority: The Anthropology of Death in the Early Twenty-First Century. Edited by Susan Long, Sebastian Boret, and Sergei Kan. London: Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Kneese, T., Rosenblat, A. & boyd, d. (2014). “Understanding Fair Labor Practices in a Networked Age.” (October 8, 2014). Open Society Foundations' Future of Work Commissioned Research Papers. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2536619 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2536619.

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