Publications
2024
Sowing 'Seeds of Doubt': Cottage Industries of Election and Medical Misinformation in Brazil and the United States
New Media & Society
Amelia Hassoun, Gabrielle Borenstein, Katy Osborn, Jacob McAuliffe, Beth Goldberg. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241255379.
2023
Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (won CHI Honorable Mention award)
Amelia Hassoun, Ian Beacock, Sunny Consolvo, Beth Goldberg, Patrick Gage Kelley, Daniel M. Russell. 662: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581328.
2020
Semantic Social Networks: A Mixed Methods Approach to Digital Ethnography
Field Methods
Alberto Cottica, Amelia Hassoun, Marco Manca, Jason Vallet, and Guy Melançon. 32:3: 274–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X20908236.
2019
Uncommon Futures
Annual Review of Anthropology
David Valentine and Amelia Hassoun. 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
Co-producing Smart City Futures amidst AI-driven Urban Development
Reflexivity and Trans-Disciplinary Collaboration for "Responsible" AI-Based Technologies. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), National University of Singapore. 29 November.
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.