@article{grandinetti_bruinsma_2022, title={The Affective Algorithms of Conspiracy TikTok}, ISSN={["1550-6878"]}, DOI={10.1080/08838151.2022.2140806}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT The initial optimism about the embedded and everyday integration of social media has, over time, given way to pessimism via the acknowledgment of these platforms’ role in the spread of mis(dis)information and the erosion of democratic ideals. Inspired by emergent accounts of how users encounter, experience, and make sense of algorithms in their everyday lives, we offer an ethnographic investigation into Conspiracy TikTok, tracing the affective flows of mis(dis)information on the platform. Specifically, we highlight our observations on reverse engineering TikTok’s algorithm, the affective pull of conspiracy content, and the critical element of algorithmic personalization.}, journal={JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA}, author={Grandinetti, Justin and Bruinsma, Jeffrey}, year={2022}, month={Nov} }
 @article{grandinetti_2019, title={Welcome to a New Generation of Entertainment: Amazon Web Services and the Normalization of Big Data Analytics and RFID Tracking}, volume={17}, ISSN={["1477-7487"]}, DOI={10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.12919}, abstractNote={The 2017 partnership between the National Football League (NFL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) promises novel forms of cutting-edge real-time statistical analysis through the use of both radio frequency identification (RFID) chips and Amazon’s cloud-based machine learning and data-analytics tools. This use of RFID is heralded for its possibilities: for broadcasters, who are now capable of providing more thorough analysis; for fans, who can experience the game on a deeper analytical level using the NFL’s Next Gen Stats; and for coaches, who can capitalize on data-driven pattern recognition to gain a statistical edge over their competitors in real-time. In this paper, we respond to calls for further examination of the discursive positionings of RFID and big data technologies (Frith 2015; Kitchin and Dodge 2011). Specifically, this synthesis of RFID and cloud computing infrastructure via corporate partnership provides an alternative discursive positioning of two technologies that are often part of asymmetrical relations of power (Andrejevic 2014). Consequently, it is critical to examine the efforts of Amazon and the NFL to normalize pervasive spatial data collection and analytics to a mass audience by presenting these surveillance technologies as helpful tools for accessing new forms of data-driven knowing and analysis.}, number={1-2}, journal={SURVEILLANCE & SOCIETY}, author={Grandinetti, Justin}, year={2019}, pages={169–175} }
 @article{grandinetti_ecenbarger_2018, title={Imagine Pokemon in the "Real" world: a Deleuzian approach to Pokemon GO and augmented reality}, volume={35}, ISSN={["1479-5809"]}, DOI={10.1080/15295036.2018.1512751}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT Discussions of the augmented reality (AR) game Pokémon GO often reinforce the demarcation between virtual game spaces and “real world” physical spaces. De Souza e Silva and Sutko’s (2011. Theorizing locative technologies through philosophies of the virtual. Communication Theory, 21(1), 23–42.) work contests such dichotomies, noting the imbrication of the material and the virtual inherent in location-based applications. While this framework provides a starting point for productive examination of mobile media from a Deleuzian philosophical position, the growing popularity of and discourse about AR necessitates renewed attention to these technologies and practices. In theorizing a more comprehensive approach to augmented reality, we draw upon Wiley’s (2005. Spatial materialism: Grossberg's Deleuzean cultural studies. Cultural Studies, 19(1), 63–99) articulation of a Deleuzian spatial materialism that emphasizes the imbrication of local and global forces, as well as technology, social relations, etc. to provide productive examinations of the construction of space and power relations. In the following paper, we offer our own contributions to this Deleuzian approach to AR by examining news media articles in the months following its release in order to better understand the popular positioning of the game in public discourses. Specifically, we contrast popular discussions of Pokémon GO with a more productive Deleuzian perspective, with attention to how the game is part of the production of space, subjectivity, and virtual potentiality.}, number={5}, journal={CRITICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA COMMUNICATION}, author={Grandinetti, Justin and Ecenbarger, Charles}, year={2018}, pages={440–454} }
 @article{grandinetti_eszenyi_2018, title={La revolucion digital: Mobile media use in contemporary Cuba}, volume={21}, DOI={10.1080/1369118x.2018.1437202}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT Recent scholarship on mobile internet use in the Global South highlights access disparities, along with shifting social practices that accompany greater web connectivity. Cuba is part of the Global South, and ranks among the least internet connected countries in the world. Venegas’[2010. Digital dilemmas: The state, the individual, and digital media in Cuba. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press] thorough account of technology use in Cuba positions Cuban digital media as an assemblage of political, economic, historical, and global factors. Recently, however, mobile digital technologies in Cuba have undergone rapid transformation. Continuing tensions between the US and Cuba remain part of how the country's infrastructure and internet practices develop in location-specific ways. In this paper, we utilize ethnographically-informed data to provide a case study of the mobile internet adaptations in Havana, Cuba. Specifically, we draw upon Sutko and de Souza e Silva [2010. Location-aware mobile media and urban sociability. New Media & Society, 13(5), 807–823] framework for location-aware mobile media and urban sociability to examine the unique communication and coordination practices of Havana internet culture. Additionally, Massey [2005. For space. London: Sage] and Wiley and Packer [2010. Rethinking communication after the mobilities turn. The Communication Review, 13(4), 263–268] notions of space allow investigation of Cuban cultural technologies within a larger social field. These theoretical lenses enable interrogation of mobile device adaptations on mobility, sociability, and space to position Cuban media use as an assemblage of local and global forces.}, number={6}, journal={Information Communication & Society}, author={Grandinetti, J. and Eszenyi, M. E.}, year={2018}, pages={866–881} }