Publications 


2024

Sowing 'Seeds of Doubt': Cottage Industries of Election and Medical Misinformation in Brazil and the United States 

Amelia Hassoun, Gabrielle Borenstein, Katy Osborn, Jacob McAuliffe, Beth Goldberg. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241255379 [in press]. 

2023

Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information

Amelia Hassoun, Ian Beacock, Sunny Consolvo, Beth Goldberg, Patrick Gage Kelley, Daniel M. Russell. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 662: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581328 [won CHI Honorable Mention award]

2020

Semantic Social Networks: A Mixed Methods Approach to Digital Ethnography

Alberto Cottica, Amelia Hassoun, Marco Manca, Jason Vallet, and Guy Melançon. Field Methods 32:3 (August 2020): 274–90. doi:10.1177/1525822X20908236.

2019

Uncommon Futures

David Valentine and Amelia Hassoun. Annual Review of Anthropology 48:1 (October 2019): 243-260. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011435

2016

Design and Temporality: Translation

Cultural Anthropology Correspondences, Fieldsights, June 13. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/design-and-temporality-translation

Hippocratic Hacking

Platypus: The CASTAC (Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing) Blog. October 28, 2016. http://blog.castac.org/2016/10/hippocratic-hacking/


Invited Talks


2024

Making Space for the Future

Exploring Smart City Developments and Fantasies. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. 1 February.  

2023

Care + Connectivity: Smart Ageing in Singapore's Smart Nation 

Care, Autonomy, and Technology Workshop. Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford. 26 September.  

2021

A Semantic Network Approach to Ethnography 

European Commission Horizon 2020 Tri-Lateral Workship on Populism. February 18-19. 

Anthropology and UX Research

Anthropology Alumni Panel: Working in UX Research. University College London. June 15.

2020

Citizen Engagement and Regional Policies: On Digital Citizenship, Health, and "Participatory Design."

European Week of Regions and Cities. Theme: Empowering Citizens. Brussels, Belgium. October 8.

Ethnography and the Internet: Collective Intelligence Insights for Digital Policy. 

Next Generation Internet Policy Summit. Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 28-29.

2019

Digital Ethnography and Semantic Social Network Analysis

Workshop on Delayed Transformational Fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe: Responding to the Rise of Illiberalism/Populism (Horizon 2020). Krakow, Poland. March 19-22.

2018

Open Care and Smart Cities: Ethnographic Approaches

Anthropology of Smart Phones and Smart Ageing Research Group, University College London. January 17.

2017

Semantic Social Network Analysis for Social Science Research

Techno-Anthropology Lab, Aalborg University. Copenhagen, Denmark. November 14.

An Ethnography of Open Care: What Have We Learned from Two Years of Participatory Research on Community-Based Care?

Open Village Festival, Horizon 2020 Research Programme. Brussels, Belgium. October 19-21.

2016

Participatory Design in Health and Social Care

Image and Pervasive Access Lab. Singapore, Singapore. July 21.


Selected Conference Talks


2023

Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Hamburg, Germany. April 23-28. 

Misinformation Panel: an Ethnographic Study with Creators and Amplifiers in the USA and Brazil.

International Conspiracy Theory Symposium. University of Miami. Miami, FL. March 16-19. 

2021

Reimagining Maps, Making Space for the Future: Geographic Counter-Stories for Palestinian and Singaporean Resistance. 

Royal Geographical Society-Institute for British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference. August 31-September 3. 

Making Space for the Future, Reimagining the Smart Nation

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 6-10.

Thinking Through and Writing about Research Ethics beyond "Broader Impact"

Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). March 3-10.

A Semantic Network Approach to Ethnography: What the POPREBEL Data Say

European Commission Horizon 2020 Tri-Lateral Workshop on Populism. February 18-19.

2019

Smart Ageing in the Smart Nation

Association of Social Anthropologists. Norwich, UK. September 3-6.

2018

Bodies of Data: Tracing Medical Data Transfer in England's NHS

American Associations of Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 10-14.

Envisioning the Smart City

American Associations of Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 10-14.

Smart Home Initiatives in Singapore

Smart-Digital-Urban Workshop. St. John’s College, University of Oxford. January 11.

2017

Semantic Social Networks: A New Approach to Scaling Digital Ethnography

Internet Science. Thessaloniki, Greece. November 22-24.

At Home in the Smart Nation

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. April 5-9.

Making Future Space: Mapping the Imagined Smart Nation in Singapore

American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN. November 16-20.

Hacking the Future City: An Exploration of Singapore’s ‘Smart Nation’ Builders

Hackademia: Empirical Studies in Computing Cultures. University of Luneburg, Germany. August 28- September 2.

Big Data, Big Futures: Imagining the Smart Nation

Critical Data Studies: The Human in the Data. University of Minnesota Informatics Institute. Minneapolis, MN. September 10.

Making [Future] Space

Futures and Ruins: A Workshop on Crisis and Possibility. Duke University, Durham, NC. March 25-26.

2014

Software for No One: Diagnosing Resistance to Informatisation in the NHS. 

FAPESP's São Paulo School of Advanced Sciences on Biotechnology, Biosocialities and the Governance of the Life Sciences. University of Campinas, Brazil. August 11-15.