Sarah Florini

Books
Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Stevens, Nikki; Hoffmann, Anna Lauren, and Florini, Sarah. “The Unremarked Optimum: Whiteness, Optimization, and Control in the Database Revolution.” Review of Communication. Special Issue: Optimization: Towards a Critical Concept. Edited by Fenwick McKelvey and Joshua Neves. 21, vol. 2 (2021): 113-28.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2021.1934521

Florini, Sarah and Barner, Briana. “‘I’m trying to be the rap Oprah’: Combat Jack and the History of the Loudspeaker Network.” In Saving New Sounds: Dispatches from the PodcastRE Project, edited by Jeremy Morris and Eric Hoyt. University of Michigan Press, 2021.

“Podcasting Blackness.” Race and Media: Critical Approaches. Edited by Lori Kido Lopez. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

“Enclaving and Cultural Resonance in Black Game of Thrones Fandom.” In "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color," edited by Abigail De Kosnik and andré carrington, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29.(2019) https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1498 

“This Week in Blackness, the George Zimmerman Acquittal, and the Production of a Networked Collective Identity.” New Media and Society 19, no. 3 (2017): 439-454.

“This Week in Blackness and the Construction of Blackness in Independent Digital Media.” Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Rebecca Lind, 328-45. New York: Routledge, 2017.

“Disrupting the Past, Reframing the Present: Websites, Alternative Histories, and Petit Récits as Black Nationalist Politics.” Social Memory in a Mediated World. Remembering in Troubled Times. Edited by Andrea Hajek, Christian Pentzold, and Christine Lohmiere, 113-28. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.

“The Podcast ‘Chitlin’ Circuit’: Black Podcasters, Alternative Media, and Enclaved Social Spaces.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media 22, no. 4 (2015): 209-19. 

"Recontextualizing he Racial Present by Retelling the Past: Intertextuality and the Politics of Remembering Online.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 31, no. 4 (2014): 314-326.

"Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’: Communication and Cultural Performance on ‘Black Twitter’.” Television and New Media 15, no. 3 (2014): 223-37.

White Papers

Florini, S., Proferes, N., Duarte, M., Halavais, A., Kirtz, J., Simeone, M., & Walker, S. (2024). AI and Higher Education: Trajectories and Questions [White paper]. Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p08pn7rfj9ocjdi2gjs4m/AI-and-Higher-Education-Trajectories-and-Questions.pdf?rlkey=k52iilusgq5ajeq2lgqgyyrxt&dl=0 

Public Writing

“Banning TikTok Won’t Solve Social Media’s Foreign Influence, Teen Harm, and Data Privacy Problems.” The Conversation. April 25, 2024. https://theconversation.com/banning-tiktok-wont-solve-social-medias-foreign-influence-teen-harm-and-data-privacy-problems-227144 

“Twitter and the Politics of Citation.” Flow: A Critical Forum in Media and Culture. May 24, 2019. https://www.flowjournal.org/2019/05/twitter-and-the-politics-of-citation/. 

“There are Black People in the Future: Digital Technology and Black Prescience.” Flow: A Critical Forum in Media and Culture. March 24, 2019. https://www.flowjournal.org/2019/03/there-are-black-people-in-the-future/.

“Public Scholarship and the Stakes of Engagement.” Media Commons Field Guide. February 12, 2017. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/question/how-might-digital-and-media-scholars-and-educators-engage-commons-both-physically-and-onlin 

“From Silent Film to Hashtags: Black Media as a Mode of Resistance.” Birth of an Answer blog. June 11, 2015. http://www.boaaevent.org/from-silent-film-to-hashtags-black-media-as-a-mode-of-resistance/ 

Weekly Contributor at This Week in Blackness. thisweekinblackness.com, 2013 (site now retired).