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.