Selected Publications
Recent and Forthcoming
Forthcoming: “Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps.” In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin. Duke University Press, expected May 2025, https://www.dukeupress.edu/technocreep-and-the-politics-of-things-not-seen.
Forthcoming: “Salvage Anthropology and ‘Low resource NLP’ : How computer science should learn from–not idolize–the social sciences in our critical turn,” with David Widder. ACM Interactions, Forum, expected March/April 2025.
New: “Repair as Play,” Field Notes on Repair, Places Journal, November 2024, https://placesjournal.org/article/field-notes-on-repair-4/.
New: Preview of my keynote address for DORS 7, “Mining the Dead: Platform Death, Data Extractivism, and AI Abolition,” September 24, 2024, https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-death-transforming-history-rituals-and-afterlife/blog/mining-the-dead-platform-death-data-extractivism-and-ai-abolition.
New: “The Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab: Introducing Methods from the Field.” Data & Society, Points, September 18, 2024, https://datasociety.net/points/the-algorithmic-impact-methods-lab-methods-from-the-field/.
“Who Gets to Live Forever?” conversation with Santiago Sanchez, Logic(s) Magazine, August 2024, https://logicmag.io/issue-21-medicine-and-the-body/who-gets-to-live-forever/.
“Coding the Dead” conversation with Jacob Bruggeman, Cleveland Review of Books, July 25, 2024, https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/tamara-kneese-coding-the-dead.
“Carbon Emissions in the Tailpipe of Generative AI.” In Harvard Data Science Review, Policy Forum op-ed with Meg Young, June 11, 2024, https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/fscsqwx4/release/2.
“Bits in the Machine: A Time Capsule of Worker's Stories in the Age of Generative AI” zine. Collaboration with Collective Action in Tech, DAIR, and Collective Action School, June 3, 2024, https://collectiveaction.tech/2024/bits-in-the-machine/.
“Geert Lovink and Tamara Kneese on Death and Digital Platforms.” Tropics of Meta, May 21, 2024, https://tropicsofmeta.com/2024/05/21/geert-lovink-and-tamara-kneese-on-death-and-digital-platforms/.
“AI Governance Needs Sociotechnical Expertise: Why the Humanities and Social Sciences are Critical to Government Efforts.” Policy brief with Serena Oduro, May 15, 2024, https://datasociety.net/library/ai-governance-needs-sociotechnical-expertise/.
“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/.
“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.
Scholarly
“Subtle Misogyny Detection and Mitigation: An Expert-Annotated Dataset,” Spotlight Submission, SoLaR, NeurIPS 2023, https://openreview.net/forum?id=5hY19x1hdq.
Kneese, T. (2023). Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond. Yale University Press.
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.
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.
Popular
Kneese, T. (2024). “Memento Mori: Making Kin with AI at the End of the World,” The Baffler, January, https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/memento-mori-kneese.
Kneese, T. (2023). “Observers Observed: The Ethnographer in Silicon Valley,” Crooked Timber, November 9, https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/09/observers-observed-the-ethnographer-in-silicon-valley/.
Kneese, T. (2023). “Dead Links.” Public Books, October 31, https://www.publicbooks.org/dead-links/.
Kneese, T. (2023). "Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living.” Wired, August 21, https://www.wired.com/story/using-generative-ai-to-resurrect-the-dead-will-create-a-burden-for-the-living/.
Critical Carbon Computing Collective (4C). (2023). Special issue of Branch Magazine on Critical Carbon Computing. https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5/.
Green Software Foundation’s State of Green Software report (author and lead researcher): https://stateof.greensoftware.foundation/.
Kneese, T. (2022). “Is a Lasting Digital Memorial to a Dead Person Even Possible?” Slate, Future Tense Now, April 30, https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/digital-remains-memorials-climate-change-transhumanism.html .
Kneese, T. (2021). “Home Spun,” Real Life, August 19, https://reallifemag.com/home-spun/.
Kneese, T. (2021). “This New Pandemic Phase: Back to the Office with Disparate Solidarity,” TWC Newsletter, June 11, https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2021/06/11/issue-12/.
Kneese, T. (2021). “Chasing White Supremacy into Tech’s Lairs,” LARB, April 4, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/chasing-white-supremacy-into-techs-lairs/.
Kneese, T. (2021). “How a Dead Professor is Teaching a University Art History Class.” Slate, Future Tense Now, January 21, https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/dead-professor-teaching-online-class.html .
Kneese, T. (2020). "How Data Can Create Full-On Apparitions of the Dead." Slate, Future Tense Now, November 2, https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/robert-kardashian-joaquin-oliver-deepfakes-death.html.
Kneese, T. (2020). “Herman Cain and the Problems with Tweeting After Death.” Slate, Future Tense Now blog, August 18, https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/herman-cain-death-twitter.html.
Kneese, T. (2020). “Pay It Forward,” Real Life Magazine, June 22, https://reallifemag.com/pay-it-forward/.
Kneese, T. & Peters, B. (2019). “Mormon Mommies Will Never Die.” Logic Magazine. Bodies Issue, https://logicmag.io/bodies/mormon-mommies-will-never-die/.
Kneese. T. (2019). “Precarity Beyond the Gig.” Notes from Below. Special issue based on Log Out! Conference at University of Toronto, https://notesfrombelow.org/article/precarity-beyond-gig.
Kneese, T. (2016). “What Happened to the Most-Wired Town of the 1990s?” The Verge, http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/13923952/blacksburg-electronic-village-virginia-tech-digital-community-internet.
Kneese, T. (2016). “Being Data.” Review of On the Existence of Digital Objects by Yuk Hui. Public Books, http://www.publicbooks.org/briefs/being-data.
Kneese, T. (2016). “Portland Fast Food Workers Don’t Just Want a Raise — They Want a Union Too.” Yes! Magazine, https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2016/04/29/portland-fast-food-workers-dont-just-want-a-raise-they-want-a-union-too/.
Kneese, T. (2016). “Airport iPads are a New Way to Alienate Labor.” Al Jazeera America. Opinions. http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/1/airport-ipads-are-a-new-way-to-alienate-labor.html.
Kneese, T. (2014). “QR Codes for the Dead.” The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/qr-codes-for-the-dead/370901/.
Kneese, T. (2014). “Death Stares.” The New Inquiry, http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/death-stares/ .