Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

Alper, M., Rodgers, R., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., & Harrison, K. (2025, online first). “actually an ED and not just a quirky aspect of autism”: TikTok as a forum and mediator of autistic food issues and eating disorders. New Media & Society, 1-19. 

Rauchberg, J. (2025, online first) Articulating algorithmic ableism: The suppression and surveillance of disabled TikTok creators. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-12. 

Alper, M., Rauchberg, J.S., Simpson, E., Guberman, J. & Feinberg, S. (2025). TikTok as algorithmically mediated biographical illumination: Self-discovery and autism diagnosis on #Autisktok. New Media & Society, 27(3), 1378-1396. 

Gardner, P.M. & Rauchberg, J. (2024). Feminist cybernetic, critical race, postcolonial and crip propositions for the theoretical future of Human-Machine Communication. Human-Machine Communication, 8, 21-57. 

D’Souza, R.A., Rauchberg, J.S., & Nieto-Fernandez, B.A. (2023). The labor of diversity in 2020-21 U.S. tenure-track Communication jobs. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 51(6), 602-620. 

Newman-Griffis, D., Rauchberg, J.S., Alharbi, R.M., Hickman, L., & Hochheiser, H. (2023). Definition drives design: Disability models and mechanisms of bias in AI technologies. First Monday, 28(1-2).

Rauchberg, J.S. (2022). “Lena Dunham is trash”: White feminist misogynoir and the limitations of #MeToo’s hashtag activism. The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 10(2), 123-141.

Rauchberg, J.S. (2022). Imagining a neuroqueer technoscience. Studies in Social Justice, 16(2), 370-388. *Honorable Mention for ARSTM 2023 Article of the Year Award* 

D’Souza, R.A. & Rauchberg, J.S. (2020). Neoliberal values & queer/disability in Margarita with a Straw. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 13(2), 183-196. 

Book Chapters and Forum Commentaries 

Rauchberg, J. & Maddox, J. (2024, online first). “She’s my bitch eating crackers”: Influencer snark and the digital gossip economy. Feminist Media Studies, 1-7.

Gardner, P.M. & Rauchberg, J. (2023). Feminist, postcolonial, and crip approaches to Human-Machine Communication methodology. In A. Guzman, R. McEwen, & S. Jones (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication (pp. 252-260), SAGE. 

Rauchberg, J.S. (2022). A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok. Feminist Media Studies, 22(5), 1290-1294. 

Rauchberg, J.S. (2022). #Shadowbanned: Queer, trans, and disabled creator responses to algorithmic oppression on TikTok. In P. Pain (ed.), LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective (pp. 196-209), Routledge. 

Published Conference Proceedings 

Rauchberg, J., Alper, M., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., & Feinberg, S. (2023). “Here to have fun and fight ableism”: #Autisktok user bios as neuroqueer microactivist platform affordances. In AoIR 2023: Selected papers in Internet Research (pp. 1-5), Association of Internet Researchers. 

Gardner, P., Surlin, S., Akinyemi, A., Rauchberg, J., Zheng, R., McArthur, C., Papaioannu, A., & Hao, Y. (2021). Designing a dementia-informed, accessible, co-located gaming platform for older adults with dementia, family, and carers. In Q. Gao & J. Zhou (eds.), Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population: Supporting Everyday Life Activities (pp. 58-77), Springer. 

Gardner, P., Surlin, S., McArthur, C., Akinyemi, A., Rauchberg, J., Zheng, R., Hao, Y., & Papaioannu, A. (2021). ABLE.Family: Remote, intergenerational play in the age of COVID-19. In C. Stephanidis, M. Antona, & S. Ntoa (eds.), HCI International 2021— Posters (pp. 558-565), Springer. 

Gardner, P., Surlin, S., McArthur, C., Akinyemi, A., Rauchberg, J., Zheng, R., Hao, Y., & Papaioannu, A. (2020). ABLE Music: Arts-Based exercise enhancing LongEvity. In C. Stephanidis, M. Antona, & S. Ntoa (eds.), HCI International 2020— Late-Breaking Posters, Springer. 

Edited Collections

Divon, T. & Rauchberg, J. (eds.) (2023). The struggle is (for) real: Cultivating authenticity in the BeReal age. Flow Journal, 29(4). https://www.flowjournal.org/archives/volume-29/29-04-special-issue-bereal/

Book Reviews

Rauchberg, J.S. (2021). Review of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock, Jr. Catalyst: Feminism, theory, technoscience, 7(2), 1-4. 

Public Scholarship

Tran, C.H. & Rauchberg, J. Hope, cope, and scroll: Sifting down the tea leaves of algorithmic recommendation. Invited forum essay in press at ASAPReview. 

Maddox, J. & Rauchberg, J. (2025). In the $250B influencer industry, being a hater can be the only way to rein in bad behavior. The Conversation. 

Rauchberg, J. (2025). On shitposting, or, aspirational labor and platform hygiene. Mid Theory Collective.

Duffy, B.E. & Rauchberg, J. (2025). When social media influencers were women. Newsweek. 

Rauchberg, J. (2022). Impersonation and parody: Shitposters satirically mock Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. The Conversation (Canadian Edition).

Rauchberg, J. (2022). In defence of the remix: Olivia Rodrigo’s promotional TikToks are a relatable GenZ self-branding. The Conversation (Canadian Edition). 

Rauchberg, J. (2022). Bestie vibes only? Disabled content creators, shadowbanning, and the politics of authenticity. Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship. 

Rauchberg, J.S. (2020). TikTok’s digital eugenics: Challenging ableism and algorithmic erasure through disability activism. Flow Journal.