Peer-Reviewed Publications
Select peer-reviewed publications researched and authored by faculty, graduate students* and/or other researchers* through the GMTaC Lab and beyond:
2023 L. Parks, J. Vekova, & S. De Ridder, editors. Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations (University of Illinois Press).
2023 L. Parks, A. Wisseh*, G. DuCharme*, S. DesRosier*, “The Nuances of Network Sovereignty: A Collaborative Study of the Internet and ICTs in the Blackfeet Community in Montana,” New Media and Society, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448231200870.
2023 L. Parks & F. W. Twine. “Millennial Messiahs, Female Fixers, and Corporate Boards: Workplace Power Dynamics in Tech TV Dramas,” Film Quarterly, 76 (3): 25–35, https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.25.
2021 J. Holt & L. Parks. “The Labor of Digital Privacy Advocacy,” Media Industries, 8(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mij.93.
2021 L. Parks, R. Srinivasan, & D. Cerna.* “Digital Empowerment for Whom? An Analysis of ‘Network Sovereignty’ in Low-income, Rural Communities in Mexico and Tanzania.“ Information, Communication & Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1928264.
2021 K. Wagman* & L. Parks. "Beyond the Command: Feminist Science, Technology and Society Research and Critical Issues for the Design of Social Machines." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. April 2021 Article No.: 101 https://doi.org/10.1145/3449175.
2020 G. Pereira*, I. Bojzcuk*, & L. Parks. “WhatsApp in Brazil: A critical analysis of user and news media disruption discourses on a platform-turned-infrastructure,” Global Media and Communication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211038530.
2020 L. Parks & J. Walker. “Disaster Media: Bending the Curve of Ecological Disruption and Moving toward Social Justice,” Media + Environment. https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.13474 + 6 article stream.
2020 L. Parks & R. Thompson*. “The Slow Shutdown: Information and Internet Regulation in Tanzania from 2010-2018 and Impacts Upon Online Content Creators,” International Journal of Communication, 14, 4288–4308.
2019 M. Graydon* & L. Parks. “‘Connecting the Unconnected’: A Critical Assessment of US Satellite Internet Services,” Media, Culture & Society, 42(2), 260-276: https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719861835.
2018 M. Nekrasov*, D. Iland*, M. Metzger, L. Parks, E. Belding. “A user-driven free speech application for anonymous and verified, online public group discourse,” Journal of Internet Services and Applications, 9(21): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13174-018-0093-4.
2017 L. Parks, H. Goodwin,* & L. Han. “‘I have the government in my pocket’: Social Media Users in Turkey, Transmit-Trap Dynamics and Struggles over Internet Freedom,” Communication, Culture & Critique, 10(4), Dec 2017, 574-592.
2017 M. Nekrasov*, L. Parks & E. Belding. “Limits to Internet Freedoms: Being Heard in an Increasingly Authoritarian World.” In Proceedings of ACM Limits (ACMLIMITS’17), June 2017, Santa Barbara, CA.
2017 L. Parks & R. Mukherjee*. “From Platform Jumping to Self-Censorship: Circumvention Practices and ‘Internet Freedom’ in Zambia,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 14(3), 221-237.
2017 L. Parks, L. Palmer,* and D. Grinberg*. “Media Fieldwork: Critical Reflections on Collaborative ICT Research in Rural Zambia,” in Applied Media Studies, Kirsten Ostherr, ed., London: Routledge, 2017, 97-116.