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Peer Reviewed Publications
2020 (with Benjamin Shestakofsky, equal authorship). Making Platforms Work: Relationship Labor and the Management of Publics. Theory and Society Vol 49 (5-6). Ungated pre-print available at SocArXiv
2019. Post-truth and the Search for Objectivity: Political Polarization and the Remaking of Knowledge Production. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society Vol 5. The article expands on these previously published blog-posts on Platypus and the ASA: A Media Ecosystem for an Age of Fracture, Trusting Experts: : Can We Reconcile STS and Social Psychology? Three Perspectives on “Fake News”
2018. Engineering a platform: The construction of interfaces, users, organizational roles, and the division of labor. New Media and Society Vol 20(7). Ungated pre-print available on SocArXiv. Summary blog-posts published at Culture Digitally and Work in Progress. A prior version of this article won an honorable mention at the David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize.
Other (selected) essays on the web:
Politics–not psychology–drives politics
Are surveillance capitalists behaviorists? No. Does it matter? Maybe.
How might the history of AI help us critique Kosinsky’s “gaydar” study?
How influential was Alan Turing?
The Porous Boundaries of Computer Science.
Speed Bump, Meet Knee Defender.
Technological Keypoints: How Tennis can help us think about the History of Technology”
Performativity, Realism and Social Construction.
Editor-reviewed Publications
2020. Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Interface Architects: The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction’. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 42, Issue 4 (Fall 2020). Co-editor of special issue with Elisabetta Mori.
2018. On the “neutrality” of platforms: How the platform shapes pedagogy in MOOCs. Anthropology Now 10 (3), 70-83.
2014. Anthropology in and of MOOCs. American Anthropologist 116 (4): 829–38. [pdf] [Co-authored with Rachel Flamenbaum, Manduhai Buyandelger, Greg Downey, Orin Starn, Graham Jones, Catalina Laserna, Shreeharsh Kelkar, Carolyn Rouse, and Tom Looser]
Book Reviews
Shreeharsh Kelkar. 2015. “Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware.” Journal of Design History, March. doi:10.1093/jdh/epu039. [pdf]
Computer Science Publications
Shreeharsh Kelkar, Ajita John, Doree Duncan Seligmann (2009). Some Observations on the “Live” Collaborative Tagging of Audio Conversations in the Enterprise, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI) 2010. (Acceptance rate: 22%) [pdf]
Adithya Renduchintala, Shreeharsh Kelkar, Ajita John, Doree Seligmann (2007). Designing for Persistent Audio Conversations in the Enterprise, Conference on Designing for User Experience, Chicago, IL, Nov 5-7. [pdf]
Doree Duncan Seligmann, Ajita John, Shreeharsh Kelkar (2007). Why tag conversations? CollaborateCom, White Plains, NY, Nov. 12-15. (Invited paper) [pdf]
Shreeharsh Kelkar, Ajita John, Doree Duncan Seligmann (2009). Visualizing Search Results as Web Conversations, Workshop on Web Search Summarization and Presentation, International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW), Madrid, Spain, April 20-24. (Acceptance rate: 9 out of 21). [pdf]
Shreeharsh Kelkar, Ajita John, Doree Duncan Seligmann (2007). An Activity-based Perspective of Collaborative Tagging, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Boulder, Colorado, March 26-28. (Acceptance rate: approx. 20%) [pdf]