Upcoming Co-Organized Workshop
“Reimagining Social Media and Social Movements in Crisis: A Workshop on Empirics, Theory and Research Guidance.” Aarhus Critical Computing August 18-22, 2025. With Adrian Petterson, Priyank Chandra, and Alex Lu. A design workshop style sprint to create a list of guidance for researchers who study the links between technology and social movements, based on the collective knowledge-making of researchers and activists interested in varied social movements across global contexts. Please consider participating!
Short Articles and Press
Extensively quoted in “Cambodia’s Unique Version of E-Commerce” by Leang Seakleng in The Diplomat, October 2021
“Designing for Liberation: Our Lives, Mobility, and Technology” Margaret Jack and Aunpriya Tuli, Interactions Magazine, March-April 2021.
“Networked Authoritarianism At the Edge,” New Mandala, Margaret Jack, February 16, 2021.
Our research on challenges with the Khmer language Facebook UI and digital privacy risk was featured on the New Naratif Southeast Asian dispatches podcast from October 2019 starting at 17:41. URL here.
Recent Presentations
April 11, 2025: “Ethnography in Information Science” panel organized by Rutgers’ Digital Ethnography Working Group
April 18, 2025: University of Michigan reading group conversation about “Media Ruins”
April 24, 2025, ASIS&T “Meet The Authors” Webinar Series, “Media Ruins”
Media Ruins discussion at the “Dialectics of Control: An Inter-Asian Perspective” workshop at The Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK (virtual & Hong Kong), May 23-24, 2024
University of California Los Angeles, School of Information, “Media Ruins,” April 18 2024
Labor-Tech research group, “Couture Logistics,” April 12, 2024
Syracuse University, “Conversations in Conflict Studies,” “Couture Logistics,” March 20, 2024
Discussant on A Discussion Of Faded Reels: The Art Of Four Cambodian Filmmakers (LinDa Saphan, 2022) at AAS Virtual, March 1, 2024
“Media Ruins,” UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society Seminar, March 2, 2023.
“Accomplishing Independence: Infrastructure and Independent Work,” UT Austin School of Information, January 26, 2023.
“Accomplishing Independence: The Articulation Work of Independent Work,” with Ingrid Erickson and Melissa Mazmanian. 4S 2022, Cholula, Dec 7-10.
“Attending to Affect and Attuning to Affect in Qualitative Research and Design in ICTD,” Seattle, Washington, June 27-29, 2022, with Dina Sabie, Sachin Pendse, and Catherine Wieczorek
May 13, 2022: University of California, Irvine Department of Informatics seminar series
April 25, 2022: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department of Information Systems seminar series
March 30, 2022: University of Toronto “Critical Computing” series
March 29, 2022: UPenn, Annenberg School of Communication
March 3, 2022: CHIWORK.org’s weekly speaker series
Guest lecture, “Ethnographies of Work,” Guttman College, Anthropology Department, November 4 and 5, 2021, New York, NY & online
I presented two talks at 4S 2021 (October 9-11, virtual) in two closed panels:
“Power in Relation: Digital Technologies Across Geography and Scale” with Ingrid Erickson. Other panelists are Burcu Baykurt, Till Straube, Seyram Avle, Ritwick Ghosh, Leah Horgan, and Kavita Philip. Moderated by Megan Finn.
“From Industrial Health to Corporate Wellness: Histories of Body Measurement at Work” with Jina Hong. Other panelists are Vera Khovanskaya, Sarah Fox, Dorothy Howard, and Chris O’Neill. Moderated by Martha Lampland.
I presented “Networked Authoritarianism at the Edge: The Political and Material Transitions of Cambodian Rural Officials” with Sopheak Chann, Steven Jackson, and Nicola Dell at CSCW 2021 (October 23-27, virtual).
April 20, 2021, panelist in X4D Talk on Privacy and Participation on Social Media.
April 29, 2021, guest lecture in "Tech and Social Justice" (professor Nicola Dell) at Cornell Tech.
Syracuse University School of Information brown bag, March 12, 2021.
Digital Life Initiative “Is AI an existential threat?” debate. I presented representing “team No.” March 4, 2021.
Data & Society Databite: Misinformation in Southeast Asia, May 27 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19), New York, NY & virtual
School for the Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communications, University of Texas, Dallas, November 6, 2019, Dallas, Texas
Goethe University Institute of Human Geography “Digital Geography” workshop, Frankfurt, Germany, June 28, 2019
Digital Life Institute, Cornell Tech, New York, NY, April 11, 2019
Microsoft Research New England Social Media Collective, Cambridge, MA, February 8, 2019
“Audio-Visual Media Infrastructures in 1955-1970 Cambodia,” Konleng Knyom Independent Art Space, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“Privacy and Media Literacy,” presented as part of a media workshop at Sahaka Working Space, organized by Media Safe Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia July 2018
“Archival Listening” Book Café, Battambang, Cambodia, March 2018
“Archival Listening” as part of Sa Sa Art Project’s “Another Sound” program, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, February 2018
“Formal and Informal Collectivization and New Digital Tools: The Case of Tuk Tuk Drivers in Cambodia” Presentation to Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association Annual Meeting, December, 2017, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“Infrastructure as Creative Action: Online Buying, Selling, and Delivery in Phnom Penh,” Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, moderated by the Center for Khmer Studies, October 2017