Publications

Caleb Gayle

• Gayle, Caleb. (2025). Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State, Riverhead Books. Penguin Random House.

Sylke Meyer

• Meyer, S.R. (2025). Soviet Narratology and Spatial Story Design: The Unintentional Storyteller (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003543022

David Tamés

• Tamés, David and Peter Zakrzewski. (2025). Mediating Presence: Immersive Experience Design Workbook for UX Designers, Filmmakers, Artists, and Content Creators. Routledge. Science Direct. 

Rahul Bhargava 

• Bhargava, R. (2025). Community Data: creative approaches to empowering people with information. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press. 

Celia Pearce

• Pearce, Celia. Playframes, December 17, 2024. MIT Press. 

Adriana de Souza

• de Souza e Silva, A. (2025). Framing location-based micromobility as mobility justice in networked urban spaces. In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (Eds.), The Routledge companion to mobile media (2nd ed., pp. 88-92). Routledge.

• de Souza e Silva, Adriana, Glover, Ragan. and Scardua, Mar. “Micromobility justice in urban Brazil: the contexts of scooter sharing services,” Taylor & Francis Online, August 18, 2025.

Dan Kennedy

• Kennedy, Dan. “At a moment of crisis, Boston’s top two public media leaders argue that building community is the way forward. They’re right,” CommonWealth Beacon. August 21, 2025.

Eileen McGivney

• McGivney, Eileen, Meryl Alper, Eunju Pak, and Veronica Rubinsztain. “Someone who has ADHD or someone who has autism should make the rules”: A participatory study of neurodivergent child perspectives on the ethics of extended reality technologies. 2025. Science Direct

Vance Ricks and John Wihbey

• Ricks, Vance, and John Wihbey. “How AI-Driven Search May Reshape Democracy, Economics, and Human Agency,” 2025. Tech Policy Press.

Ridwanullah Abdulhameed

• Ridwanullah, A. O., Sule, S. Y., Usman, B., & Abdulsalam, L. U. (2024). Politicization of Hate and Weaponization of Twitter/X in a Polarized Digital Space in Nigeria. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 0(0).  

Meryl Alper  

• Alper, M., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., & Feinberg, S. (2025). TikTok as algorithmically mediated biographical illumination: Autism, self-discovery, and platformed diagnosis on #autisktok.
• Alper, M., Rodgers, R., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., & Harrison, K. (in press). “Actually an ED and not just a quirky aspect of autism”: TikTok as a forum and mediator of autistic food issues and eating disorders. New Media & Society.
• Rauchberg, J., Alper, M., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., & Feinberg, S. (2023). “Here to have fun and fight ableism”: #Autisktok user bios as neuroqueer microactivist platform affordances. Selected Papers of #AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (pp. 1–5). Philadelphia, PA, October 18-21, 2023. AoIR.
• Schmuecker, S., Hourcade, J. P., Alper, M., Fails, J. A., Kawas, S., & Yarosh, S. (2024). Democratizing the ethics of emerging technologies for children. ACM Interactions, 31(5), 32–37.

Rahul Bhargava

• Bhargava, R., Hadjis, E., Heckman, M. (2024) A Case Study in an A.I.-Assisted Content Audit. Computation + Journalism (C+J-24) Conference.

Adriana de Souza e Silva

• de Souza e Silva, A., Campbell, S. W., & Ling, R. (2025). Hybrid Space Revisited: From concept toward theory, 35 (1), 14-24. Communication Theory.>

Michael Ann DeVito

• Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, and Michael Ann DeVito. 2025. Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25),
• Gianna Williams, Natalie Chen, Michael Ann DeVito, and Alexandra To. Why Can’t Black Women Just Be?: Black Femme Content Creators Navigating Algorithmic Monoliths. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25),
• Erika Victoria Melder, Ada Lerner, and Michael Ann DeVito. 2025. “A Blocklist is a Boundary”: Tensions Between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, doi: 10.1145/3710919.
• Leah Hope Ajmani, Jasmine C. Foriest, Jordan Taylor, Kyle Pittman, Sarah Gilbert, and Michael Ann DeVito. 2024. Whose Knowledge is Valued? A Collaborative Autoethnography on Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8, CSCW2, Article 523, 28 pages. doi: 10.1145/3687062.
• Michael Ann DeVito, Jessica L. Feuston, Erika Victoria Melder, Christen Malloy, Cade Ponder, and Jed R. Brubaker. 2024. Safety and Community Context: Exploring a Transfeminist Approach to Sapphic Relationship Platforms. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8, CSCW1, Article 203, 35 pages. doi: 10.1145/3653694.

Laura Forlano

• Forlano, Laura. CybORGs. Cybernetic Organisms and Cybernetic Organizations. 2025. Sociological.

Caleb Gayle

• “Can the Historic Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town?” The Atlantic, December 17, 2024.
• “Could This Tiny School Break Down the Wall Between Church and State?” The New York Times Magazine, December 12, 2024.
• Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State, August 12, 2025, Riverhead Books-Penguin Random House.

Meg Heckman

• Heckman, M. (May 29, 2025). “The Girls from Boston.” WBUR Cognoscenti. The Girls From Boston
• Heckman, M. (February 5, 2025). “How midcentury women’s magazines fought cancer.” Saturday Evening Post.

Dan Kennedy

• “Powerful forces want to dismantle libel protections. History warns us why.,” by Dan Kennedy, Poynter Online, March 11, 2025. A review of David Enrich’s Murder the Truth in the context of two classic books about libel protection.
• “A consumer’s guide to newspaper endorsements,” by Dan Kennedy, CommonWealth Beacon, October 28, 2024.
• “How a state commission could help ease the local news crisis,” by Dan Kennedy, CommonWealth Beacon, June 27, 2024.
• “Community-based entrepreneurs are leading the way in solving the local news crisis,” by Dan Kennedy, The Conversation, March 4, 2024.

Eileen McGivney 

• McGivney, E. (2025). Interactivity and Identity Impact Learners’ Sense of Agency in Virtual Reality Field Trips. British Journal of Educational Technology. 56(1), 410-435.

Sylke Meyer

• Transcending Bodies, In: Queer Performance Art, In: Art & Art Education, Owl Press, Ghent, 2025.
• Decentralizing the Ego, The Evolving Role of Art Education for Identity Constructions in an Age of AI, In: Art & Art Education, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2025

Briana Trifiro

• Trifiro, B., & Goyanes, M. (2025). Revealing the True Self Online: How lurking behavior interacts with exposure to positivity bias and affects self-disclosure on social media. International Journal of Communication, 19, 199-219.
• Wu, J.,* Trifiro, B,* Ranker, L. R., Origgi, J. M., Benjamin, E. J., Robertson, R. M., Bhatnagar, A., Stokes, A., Xuan, Z., Wiyjaya, D., Plummer, B., Ross, J. C., Fetterman, J. L., & Hong, T. (2024). Health Warnings on Instagram Advertisements for Synthetic Nicotine E-Cigarettes and Engagement. JAMA Network Open, 7(9).

Maria Elena Villar

• Wang, W., Villar, M. E., & Rodriguez, J. (2025). Social Media and Substance Use Among Young Hispanic EDM Attendees: A Perspective on Prototype Perceptions. Mass Communication and Society, 1-18.
  
• Wagner-Coello, H. U., Villar, M. E., & DeGennaro, M. (2024).Incorporating citizen science engagement in a vector surveillance undergraduate internship. Discover Education, 3(1), 191.
• Tilli, N., & Villar, M. E. (2024). Universities and student mental health at the intersection of communication, representations, and stigma. An international comparative study. ZER: Revista de Estudios de Comunicación= Komunikazio Ikasketen Aldizkaria, 29(56), 203-222.

Stephen Warren

• Warren, S. & Liebler, C. M. (in press). Feminist consciousness, team identification and sports media use: An intersectional study of WNBA fans. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.
• Warren, S. (2025). Sports Fan Moral Reasoning Strategies in Response to an Athlete’s Controversial Political Associations. Communication & Sport. Online Advance Publication.
• Warren, S. (2025). The Effects of Moral Reasoning and Team Identification of Sports Fans’ Psychological Health. International Journal of Sport Communication. Online Advance Publication.

Zorana Matić

• Matić, Z., Oh, Y., Grindle, A., DuBose, J. R., & Lim, L. (2025). Keeping healthcare workers safe during a pandemic: Evaluating doffing area design for safer removal of personal protective equipment. Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 18(1).