Mike Ananny
Mike Ananny is an Assistant Professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where he researches the public significance of systems for networked journalism. Specifically, he studies how institutional, social, technological, and normative forces both shape and reflect the design of the online press and a public right to hear. He is also an Affiliated Faculty with USC's Science, Technology and Society research cluster, and a past Faculty Associate with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He holds a PhD from Stanford University's Department of Communication (advised by Theodore L. Glasser), a Masters from the MIT Media Laboratory (advised by Justine Cassell and Hiroshi Ishii), and a Bachelors from the University of Toronto (double major in Computer Science and Human Biology, advised by Ronald Baecker).
He was a founding member of the research staff at Media Lab Europe, a founding member of Expresto Software Corp, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective. He has held fellowships and scholarships with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the LEGO Corporation, Interval Research, and has worked or consulted with LEGO, Mattel and Nortel Networks, helping to generate research concepts and prototypes for new product lines and services.
Ananny has led several public-private learning and design partnerships with the BBC, University of Tampere, Amsterdam Computer Clubhouse, Loyalist College Canada, The Ark Children's Cultural Centre. He was principal investigator on European Union grant proposals and has licensed his custom software to Trinity College Dublin for classroom use. He has a background in new media and technology design, creating both technological toys for children's language acquisition as well as large-scale, interactive projections in Dublin, Northern Ireland and Amsterdam for people to communicate publicly through SMS text messaging.
He has published in a variety of venues including Science, Technology, and Human Values; Social Media + Society; Critical Studies in Media Communication; International Journal of Communication; New Media & Society; Digital Journalism; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; First Monday; American Behavioral Scientist; Television & New Media; and the proceedings of the ACM’s conferences on Computer-Human Interaction and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. He is writing a book on press freedom in an age of networked journalism (under contract with MIT Press).
He was a founding member of the research staff at Media Lab Europe, a founding member of Expresto Software Corp, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective. He has held fellowships and scholarships with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the LEGO Corporation, Interval Research, and has worked or consulted with LEGO, Mattel and Nortel Networks, helping to generate research concepts and prototypes for new product lines and services.
Ananny has led several public-private learning and design partnerships with the BBC, University of Tampere, Amsterdam Computer Clubhouse, Loyalist College Canada, The Ark Children's Cultural Centre. He was principal investigator on European Union grant proposals and has licensed his custom software to Trinity College Dublin for classroom use. He has a background in new media and technology design, creating both technological toys for children's language acquisition as well as large-scale, interactive projections in Dublin, Northern Ireland and Amsterdam for people to communicate publicly through SMS text messaging.
He has published in a variety of venues including Science, Technology, and Human Values; Social Media + Society; Critical Studies in Media Communication; International Journal of Communication; New Media & Society; Digital Journalism; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; First Monday; American Behavioral Scientist; Television & New Media; and the proceedings of the ACM’s conferences on Computer-Human Interaction and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. He is writing a book on press freedom in an age of networked journalism (under contract with MIT Press).
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predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr.
Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports
on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they
leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular
moment, but a process involving layered social and technical acts – that understandings
of and departures from location-based media are bound up with an individual’s location.
Accounts of leaving Grindr destabilize normative definitions of both ‘Grindr’ and
‘leaving’, exposing a set of relational possibilities and spatial arrangements within and
around which people move. We conclude with implications for the study of non-use
and technological departure.
article examines some of the empirical and normative dimensions of platform conversions.
what new demands they might make of ethical frameworks, and how they
might be held accountable to ethical standards. I develop a definition of
networked information algorithms (NIAs) as assemblages of institutionally
situated code, practices, and norms with the power to create, sustain, and
signify relationships among people and data through minimally observable,
semiautonomous action. Starting from Merrill’s prompt to see ethics as the
study of ‘‘what we ought to do,’’ I examine ethical dimensions of contemporary
NIAs. Specifically, in an effort to sketch an empirically grounded,
pragmatic ethics of algorithms, I trace an algorithmic assemblage’s power to
convene constituents, suggest actions based on perceived similarity and
probability, and govern the timing and timeframes of ethical action.
predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr.
Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports
on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they
leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular
moment, but a process involving layered social and technical acts – that understandings
of and departures from location-based media are bound up with an individual’s location.
Accounts of leaving Grindr destabilize normative definitions of both ‘Grindr’ and
‘leaving’, exposing a set of relational possibilities and spatial arrangements within and
around which people move. We conclude with implications for the study of non-use
and technological departure.
article examines some of the empirical and normative dimensions of platform conversions.
what new demands they might make of ethical frameworks, and how they
might be held accountable to ethical standards. I develop a definition of
networked information algorithms (NIAs) as assemblages of institutionally
situated code, practices, and norms with the power to create, sustain, and
signify relationships among people and data through minimally observable,
semiautonomous action. Starting from Merrill’s prompt to see ethics as the
study of ‘‘what we ought to do,’’ I examine ethical dimensions of contemporary
NIAs. Specifically, in an effort to sketch an empirically grounded,
pragmatic ethics of algorithms, I trace an algorithmic assemblage’s power to
convene constituents, suggest actions based on perceived similarity and
probability, and govern the timing and timeframes of ethical action.