Publications

Publications, Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers, and Reports

  • Unscripted Practices for Uncertain Events: Organizational Problems in Cybersecurity Incident Management. Science, Technology, & Human Values, April 2024. [link]
  • The Human in the Machine. In C. Cath (ed.) Eaten by the Internet. Meatspace Press, pp. 105–110. 2023. [link]
  • Can Security Be Decentralised? The Case of the PGP Web of Trust. In Socio-Technical Aspects in Security, edited by Simon Parkin and Luca Viganò, 67–85. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2022. Cham: Springer International Publishing. [pdf] [link]
  • A Fragmented Whole: Cooperation and Learning in the Practice of Information Security (with Coye Cheshire). Report for Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley and Packet Clearing House. February 2018. [pdf] [link]
  • “For the Good of the Internet”: The Imagined Communities of Internet Infrastructure. Paper presented at AOIR 2017: The 18th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Tartu, Estonia.
  • Risky Business: Social Trust and Community in the Practice of Cybersecurity for Internet Infrastructure (with Coye Cheshire). Proceedings of the 50th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences. Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA. January 2017. [pdf]
  • Situated Governance: On Topological Limits to Internet Governance. Proceedings of AoIR 2016: The 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Berlin, Germany. October 2016.
  • The Myth of the Decentralized Internet. Internet Policy Review. Vol. 5, Issue 4. September 2016. [link]
  • Locating the Internet in Infrastructure. Proceedings of AoIR 2013: The 14th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Denver, USA. 2013. [link]
  • Recognizing Invisible Infrastructure: Data Centers and Hurricane Sandy (with Megan Finn and Kate Crawford). Proceedings of AoIR 2013: The 14th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Denver, USA. [link]
  • Entry on “Internet”, in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Sociology (with Coye Cheshire). Oxford University Press. 2011.
  • The New Cartographers: Trust and Social Order Within the Internet Infrastructure (with Coye Cheshire). Proceedings of the 38th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (Telecommunications Policy Research Conference). 2010. [link]

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

  • From Space Internet to Cloud Computing: The future of big tech is in infrastructure. Invited panelist. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. 2024.
  • (De)Centralising Protocol Design. Invited Talk. Department of Computer Science, City, University of London. 2023.
  • Trust and Governance in Cybersecurity. Invited talk. Cyber Security Group, University of Bristol. 2023.
  • Transgressive Participation: Legitimation and Marginalisation in Cybersecurity. Presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
  • Distributing Governance: Trust, Practice, and Power in Internet Infrastructure. Invited talk. Global Media and Communications programme, SOAS University of London. 2022.
  • The Limits to Peer Production in Security Infrastructures: Technological and Regulatory Challenges to the PGP Web of Trust. Presented at the 2022 European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS).
  • Decolonising Knowledges in Computer Science. Invited talk for King’s NMES International Women’s Day panel, King’s College London. March 2022.
  • An Inadvertent Standard: IPv4 Address Prefix Lengths in Interdomain Routing. Presented at the Workshop on Internet Standard Setting Research Methods. January 2022.
  • Trust, Risk, and Transitivity. Paper presented at the 2021 4S conference. October 2021.
  • The Everyday Cultures of Cyber(Security). Paper presented at the 2020 4S/EASST conference. October 2020.
  • Networking Borders: The Territories of Internet Infrastructure. Paper presented at the Workshop on Borders, Bordering, and Sovereignty in Digital Space. September 2020.
  • Decolonising the History of Networked Technologies. Invited talk for King’s NMES Educational Elevenses, King’s College London. April 2021.
  • This thing called the Internet: Infrastructure, governance and rights. Invited talk for NCBS Bangalore Public Lecture Series. February 2021.
  • Digital Civil Society conference. Invited panelist. Center for Philanthropy and Society, Stanford University, USA. October 2019.
  • Trust and Trustworthy Computing. Invited talk to the Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. 2019.
  • Trust in Protocol Design. Invited presentation to the Working Group on Human Rights Protocol Considerations at the 103rd Internet Engineering Task Force meeting. November 2018.
  • Cooperation and Learning in Information Security. Invited talk at panel on Incident Response Communications, NSF Cybersecurity Summit, Washington DC. August 2018.
  • Geographies of Trust and Practice in Internet Infrastructure. Invited talk, The Design Lab, UC San Diego. April 2018.
  • Geographies of Trust and Practice in Internet Infrastructure. Invited talk, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London. October 2017.
  • Geographies of Trust and Practice in Internet Infrastructure. Invited talk, Research Center for Journalism, Media, and Communication, University of Tampere. October 2017.
  • Becoming an Information Security Engineer. Invited paper, Ostrom Workshop Colloquium on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, Indiana University, Bloomington. April 2017.
  • The Social Embedding of Network Interconnection. Invited talk, Humboldt University School of Library and Information Science, Berlin. October 2016.
  • The Intimate Spaces of Network Interconnection Markets. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference. Berkeley, USA. June 2016.
  • Protocol as a Fieldsite. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, USA. March 2016.
  • Protocol as a Fieldsite. Invited talk, UC San Diego Studio for Ethnographic Design. February 2016.
  • On the Value of Internet Names and Numbers: A High Stakes Game? International Conference on Public Policy. Milan, Italy. July 2015. [link]
  • Governance in the Middle: The (im)Material Politics of Internet Infrastructure. Governing Technology: Material Politics and Hybrid Agencies conference. Stanford University, USA. May 2013.
  • My Feet on the Ground, My Head in the Clouds: On the Production of Networked Virtual Space from Material Physical Infrastructures. What’s New about New Materialisms conference. University of California, Berkeley, USA. May 2012.
  • Trust in Anarchy? Problems in the Governance of Distributed Computing Systems. 2011 TRUST symposium. Washington D.C., USA. 2011.
  • A Tale of Two Protocols: Constructions of Authority in DNS and BGP. Global Internet Governance Academic Network workshop “Global Internet Governance: Research and Public Policy Challenges for the Next Decade”. American University School of International Service. Washington, D.C., USA. 2011.
  • Understanding Service Systems Through Standards. Information and Service Design Symposium. University of California, Berkeley. 2008.

Dissertation

Where in the World is the Internet? Location Political Power in Internet Infrastructure. School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. 2014. [link]
Committee: Coye Cheshire (co-chair), John Chuang (co-chair), Paul Duguid, Peter Evans.
Winner of the 2016 iConference Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Other Writing

  • How Can We Trust? Invited article for EDUCAUSE Security Matters. 2018. [link]