T Kneese
Biographic Data
| ID | 33280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Kneese |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Kneese |
| SIGNATURE | KNEESE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9905-5914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Salvage Anthropology and Low-Resource NLP: What Computer Science Should Learn from the Social Sciences
This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of the labor underpinning technology production and maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well as interviews and conversations about all tech labor within the global supply chain of digital technologies. --- Seyram Avle and Sarah Fox, Editors
Breakdown as Method: Screenshots for Dying Worlds
Drawing on John Durham Peters’ theory of (mis)communication and other studies of precarious infrastructure (Hicks, 2020; Star, 1999; Pow, 2021; Tsing, 2015), in this article, I consider mortality or finitude as a site of communication breakdown, focusing on the problem of using digital platforms to achieve posterity. Providing an overview of my long-term ethnographic, historical, and web-based research on digital death care practices, I highlight…
They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: Revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village
Launched in 1993, the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV), located in Blacksburg, Virginia and connected to Virginia Tech, was an experiment in community computing. Through its funding models and technologies, the BEV united government, municipal, corporate, and university interests. While it received media attention and scholarly engagement in its prime, the BEV has not yet been reconsidered as part of the larger critical history of virtual comm…
Keep it Oakland: E-commerce meets social justice
This article examines the labor involved with the upkeep of social media accounts for Oakland-based brick-and-mortar boutiques and their digital storefronts, particularly as businesses move their wares online during shelter-in-place amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on independent shops in Oakland, California, particularly those which are part of Oakland’s Indie Alliance – a coalition of independent small business owners – this article…
Selling in place: The home as virtual storefront
Keywords authenticity, craft and DIY cultures, e-commerce, entrepreneurialism, gender, nostalgia, platforms, retail, social media
When Death Depends on Networked Information
One of the founding stories of the United States centers on Patrick Henry’s 1775 declaration “give me liberty, or give me death” on the floor of the Second Virginia Convention where war with Britain was being debated (Cohen, 1981). A similar sentiment is part of several national origin stories including the 1320 Declaration of Scottish Independence, which may have been an inspiration for Henry, and Greece’s national motto of “Liberty or Death,” w…
Radical Care
This article introduces the topic of radical care by providing a genealogy of care as a vital but underexamined praxis of radical politics that provides spaces of hope in precarious times. Following recent theoretical interventions into the importance of self-care despite its susceptibility to neoliberal co-optation, the potentialities of self-care may be expanded outward to include other forms that push back against structural disadvantage. Care…
Brick-and-Platform: Listing Labor in the Digital Vintage Economy
Vintage goods are valued for their nostalgic association with pre-digital modes of production, but their contemporary trafficking is increasingly organized by processes of platformization. The central component of what we call 'listing labor in the digital vintage economy' is the online display of collectible merchandise, but listing labor also entails promoting sellers' brands on social media and using sales platforms and other logistical media …
Networked heirlooms: The affective and financial logics of digital estate planning
This article outlines the emergence of digital estate planning, a new way of managing post-mortem data, considering its cultural history and political stakes. I argue that Web 2.0 logics of interaction and inclusivity, and the subsequent valorization of social data, have led to a new form of accumulation. Unlike estate planners, who are legal professionals paid to manage the finances of wealthy clientele, digital estate planners are start-up comp…
Mourning the Commons: Circulating Affect in Crowdfunded Funeral Campaigns
This article focuses on the role of circulated affect in crowdfunded funeral campaigns, which have attracted little scholarly attention so far. This study is based on content analysis of online campaigns ( N = 50) and qualitative interviews ( N = 10) with campaign supporters and initiators. Its aim is to connect crowdfunded funeral campaigns to the larger digital-sharing economy. The findings of the study suggest that in order to gather sufficien…
Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work
Mourning the Commons: Circulating Affect in Crowdfunded Funeral Campaigns
This article focuses on the role of circulated affect in crowdfunded funeral campaigns, which have attracted little scholarly attention so far. This study is based on content analysis of online campaigns ( N = 50) and qualitative interviews ( N = 10) with campaign supporters and initiators. Its aim is to connect crowdfunded funeral campaigns to the larger digital-sharing economy. The findings of the study suggest that in order to gather sufficien…
Brick-and-Platform: Listing Labor in the Digital Vintage Economy
Vintage goods are valued for their nostalgic association with pre-digital modes of production, but their contemporary trafficking is increasingly organized by processes of platformization. The central component of what we call 'listing labor in the digital vintage economy' is the online display of collectible merchandise, but listing labor also entails promoting sellers' brands on social media and using sales platforms and other logistical media …
Keep it Oakland: E-commerce meets social justice
This article examines the labor involved with the upkeep of social media accounts for Oakland-based brick-and-mortar boutiques and their digital storefronts, particularly as businesses move their wares online during shelter-in-place amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on independent shops in Oakland, California, particularly those which are part of Oakland’s Indie Alliance – a coalition of independent small business owners – this article…
Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work
Mourning the Commons: Circulating Affect in Crowdfunded Funeral Campaigns
This article focuses on the role of circulated affect in crowdfunded funeral campaigns, which have attracted little scholarly attention so far. This study is based on content analysis of online campaigns ( N = 50) and qualitative interviews ( N = 10) with campaign supporters and initiators. Its aim is to connect crowdfunded funeral campaigns to the larger digital-sharing economy. The findings of the study suggest that in order to gather sufficien…
Networked heirlooms: The affective and financial logics of digital estate planning
This article outlines the emergence of digital estate planning, a new way of managing post-mortem data, considering its cultural history and political stakes. I argue that Web 2.0 logics of interaction and inclusivity, and the subsequent valorization of social data, have led to a new form of accumulation. Unlike estate planners, who are legal professionals paid to manage the finances of wealthy clientele, digital estate planners are start-up comp…
Radical Care
This article introduces the topic of radical care by providing a genealogy of care as a vital but underexamined praxis of radical politics that provides spaces of hope in precarious times. Following recent theoretical interventions into the importance of self-care despite its susceptibility to neoliberal co-optation, the potentialities of self-care may be expanded outward to include other forms that push back against structural disadvantage. Care…
Brick-and-Platform: Listing Labor in the Digital Vintage Economy
Vintage goods are valued for their nostalgic association with pre-digital modes of production, but their contemporary trafficking is increasingly organized by processes of platformization. The central component of what we call 'listing labor in the digital vintage economy' is the online display of collectible merchandise, but listing labor also entails promoting sellers' brands on social media and using sales platforms and other logistical media …
When Death Depends on Networked Information
One of the founding stories of the United States centers on Patrick Henry’s 1775 declaration “give me liberty, or give me death” on the floor of the Second Virginia Convention where war with Britain was being debated (Cohen, 1981). A similar sentiment is part of several national origin stories including the 1320 Declaration of Scottish Independence, which may have been an inspiration for Henry, and Greece’s national motto of “Liberty or Death,” w…
Breakdown as Method: Screenshots for Dying Worlds
Drawing on John Durham Peters’ theory of (mis)communication and other studies of precarious infrastructure (Hicks, 2020; Star, 1999; Pow, 2021; Tsing, 2015), in this article, I consider mortality or finitude as a site of communication breakdown, focusing on the problem of using digital platforms to achieve posterity. Providing an overview of my long-term ethnographic, historical, and web-based research on digital death care practices, I highlight…
They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: Revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village
Launched in 1993, the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV), located in Blacksburg, Virginia and connected to Virginia Tech, was an experiment in community computing. Through its funding models and technologies, the BEV united government, municipal, corporate, and university interests. While it received media attention and scholarly engagement in its prime, the BEV has not yet been reconsidered as part of the larger critical history of virtual comm…
Keep it Oakland: E-commerce meets social justice
This article examines the labor involved with the upkeep of social media accounts for Oakland-based brick-and-mortar boutiques and their digital storefronts, particularly as businesses move their wares online during shelter-in-place amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on independent shops in Oakland, California, particularly those which are part of Oakland’s Indie Alliance – a coalition of independent small business owners – this article…
Selling in place: The home as virtual storefront
Keywords authenticity, craft and DIY cultures, e-commerce, entrepreneurialism, gender, nostalgia, platforms, retail, social media
Salvage Anthropology and Low-Resource NLP: What Computer Science Should Learn from the Social Sciences
This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of the labor underpinning technology production and maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well as interviews and conversations about all tech labor within the global supply chain of digital technologies. --- Seyram Avle and Sarah Fox, Editors
Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · Finance (3 works)