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With the increase in algorithms on social media, scholarship is increasingly focused on “algorithmic literacy,” or users’ understanding of
algorithms. Algorithmic literacy is multi-faceted (knowledge, attitudes, and behavior), and researchers are…

Social media platforms employ algorithmic recommendations to optimize the user’s experience and incentivize particular forms of cultural pro-
duction. While prior research shows that creators respond to these incentives and seek to optimize their…

This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars

we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special…

This study investigates digital parenting divides, or how parents’ strategies for regulating their children’s online activities differ based on their
available resources and digital parenting readiness (i.e., digital parenting self-efficacy,…

In 2007, the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak contacted archaeologists after locals found precontact artifacts on a nearby beach. This collaboration led
to the subsequent excavation of Nunalleq, an important ancestral site threatened by climate change.…

Incidents of online harassment are increasing and can have significant consequences for victims. Witnesses (“digital bystanders”) can be crucial
in identifying and challenging harassment. This study considered when and how young adults intervene…

This article focuses on uses and experiences of everyday sensory technologies by racially and ethnically diverse persons with disabilites, bringing
our research to the junction of critical technology studies, migration studies, and critical…

This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–
workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and…

This study explored sensor-based e-government practices in eight pilot “Future Communities” in Zhejiang Province, China. Adopting the ap-
proach of “e-government in everyday practice,” it examines how grid members at the grassroots level make sense…

This article examines the “sensor work” carried out in the development of autonomous vehicles which, without sensor data, would not and
arguably still do not, have the capacity to decide on where, and how, to drive. I begin by discussing three…