Publications
Gender, Race and Power in AI
West, S.M., Whittaker, M. and Crawford, K. (2019). Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in AI. AI Now Institute. https://ainowinstitute.org/discriminatingsystems.pdf.
History of Cryptography
West, S.M. (2018) Cryptographic Imaginaries and the Networked Public. Internet Policy
Review, 7(2). DOI: 10.14763/2018.2.792
West, S.M. (2017). Survival of the Cryptic, Limn, 8. http://limn.it/survival-of-the-cryptic/.
Platforms, Politics and Content Moderation
Suzor, N.P, West, S.M., Quodling, A., and York, J. (2019). What Do We Mean When We Talk About Transparency? Toward Meaningful Transparency in Content Moderation. International Journal of Communication 13, 1526-1543. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/9736/2610.
West, S.M. (2018) Censored, Suspended, Shadowbanned: Researching User Experiences of Content Moderation on Social Media Platforms, New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818773059
Suzor, N., Van Geelen, T., and West, S.M. (2018) Evaluating the legitimacy of platform
governance: a review of research and a shared research agenda, International Communication Gazette. https://doi-org.libproxy2.usc.edu/10.1177/1748048518757142
West, S.M. (2017). Data Capitalism: Redefining the Logics of Surveillance and Privacy,
Business and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650317718185
West, S.M. (2017). Raging Against the Machine: Collective Action on Social Media Platforms, Media and Communication, 5(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v5i3.989
West, S.M. (2017). Searching for the Public in Internet Governance: An Examination of
Infrastructures of Participation at NETmundial, Policy & Internet.
West, S.M. (2014). Redefining Digital Diplomacy: Modeling Business Diplomacy by Internet Companies in China. Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 9(4): 334-355.