Publications

Gabrys, Jennifer. Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. Open-access version available on Manifold. (Draft version originally published on Manifold in October 2021.)

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Phyto-Sensor Toolkit: Cultivating the Swamps of Urban Air.” In Swamps and the New Imagination. Edited by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, and Kristupas Sabolius. London: Sternberg Press; distributed by MIT Press, forthcoming 2023.

“Review of Public Engagement.” A report by the Defra Social Science Expert Group (SSEG), Science Advisory Council, 10 October 2022.

Gabrys, Jennifer and Helen Pritchard. “Environmental Sensing Infrastructures and Just Good Enough Data.” In The Nature of Data. Edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Revised reprint of “Just Good Enough Data and Environmental Sensing.” International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research 13 (2018).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World.” Navigation Beyond Vision. Edited by e-flux. London: Sternberg Press; MIT Press, 2022. Reprint of the special issue, Navigation Beyond Vision. e-flux journal no. 101 (2019).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Particle Stories: Breathing in the Long 2020.” In The Long 2020. Edited by Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.

Gabrys, Jennifer and Helen Pritchard. “Environmental Sensing Infrastructures and Just Good Enough Data.” In The Nature of Data. Edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Revised reprint of “Just Good Enough Data and Environmental Sensing.” International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research 13 (2018).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Citizen Infrastructures and Public Policy: Activating the Democratic Potential of Infrastructures.” In Future Directions for Citizen Science and Public Policy. Edited by Katie Cohen and Robert Doubleday, 88-93. Cambridge: Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge, 2021.

Mahajan, Sachit, Jennifer Gabrys, and Joanne Armitage. “AirKit: A Citizen-Sensing Toolkit for Monitoring Air Quality.” In the special issue, Air Quality Internet of Things Devices. Sensors 21, no. 12 (2021): 4044. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21124044.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing Particulate Matter and Practicing Environmental Justice.” In Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. Edited by TJ Demos, Emily Scott, and Subhankar Banerjee, 219-229. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Gabrys, Jennifer and Molly Wright Steenson. “A Conversation on Ecology and Ethics.” In Distributed Proximities: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 1 (2021): 26-37. Edited by Brian Slocum, Viola Ago, and Adam Marcus. https://2020.acadia.org/.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “As Lichens Absorb Air Pollution they Show Us the Limits of Livability.” In Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene. Edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing a Moving Planet.” In exhibition catalog, Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 342-343. ZKM and MIT Press, 2020.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Planetary Health in Practice: Sensing Air Pollution and Transforming Urban Environments.” In the research article collection, Healthy Publics: Transforming and Sustaining Health Research and Action. Edited by Steve Hinchliffe, Lenore Manderson, and Martin Moore. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, no. 35 (2020): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00534-7.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Air Pollution.” In the reverse-engineered book, Index of Evidence. Edited by Laura Salisbury, Mike Michael, Steve Hinchliffe, Lara Choksey, and Gill Partington. University of Exeter, 2020.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing Air, Creaturing Data.” In Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Edited by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, 116-127. London: Routledge, 2020. Abbreviated reprint of “Sensing Air, Creaturing Data.” In Program Earth. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “In Conversation with Jennifer Gabrys.” Interview with Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys. LA+,  GEO issue (fall 2020): 72-77.

Gabrys, Jennifer, and Kathryn Yusoff. “Making Things Otherwise: On the Feminist Critique of the Anthropocene, Decolonising Geology and Sensing Media Environments.” Interview with Petra Löffler, Léa Perraudin, and Birgit Schneider. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 23, no. 2 (2020): 138-151. Published in German as “Dinge anders machen. Feministische Anthropozän-Kritik, Dekolonisierung der Geologie und «sensing» in Medien-Umwelten.”

Gabrys, Jennifer. How to Do Things with Sensors. Forerunners: Ideas First. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Available open access at Manifold.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing a Planet in Crisis.” In Media+Environment 1, no. 1 (22 November 2019). https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.10036.

Houston, Lara, Jennifer Gabrys, and Helen Pritchard. “Breakdown in the Smart City: Exploring Workarounds with Urban Sensing Practices and Technologies.” In the special issue, Sensors and Sensing Practices. Co-edited with Helen Pritchard and Lara Houston. Science, Technology, & Human Values 44, no. 5 (26 May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919852677.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World.” In the special issue, Navigation Beyond Vision. Edited by Tom Holert, Doreen Mende, and the e-flux editors. e-flux Journal 101 (June 2019).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights.” In Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights. Edited by Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, and Evelyn Ruppert, 248-266. London: Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology, 2019.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensors Experiencing Environments, Environments Becoming Computational.” Response to Forum Review of Program Earth. Dialogues in Human Geography 9, no. 1 (11 March 2019): 121-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618808668.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing the Air and Experimenting with Environmental Citizenship.” In The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture. Edited by René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries, 175-194. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Becoming Planetary.” In the collection, Accumulation. Edited by Daniel Barber. e-flux (2 October 2018).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing Lichens: From Ecological Microcosms to Environmental Subjects.” In the special issue, The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions. Edited by Sheila Sheikh and Ros Gray. Third Text 151, vol. 32, no. 2 (2018): 350-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2018.1483884.

Pritchard, Helen, Jennifer Gabrys, and Lara Houston. “Re-Calibrating DIY: Testing Participation across Digital Sensors, Fry Pans and Environmental Media.” New Media & Society 20, no. 12 (2018): 4533-4552. First published 3 June 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818777473.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Environmental Sensing and ‘Media’ as Practice in the Making.” In The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities. Edited by Jentery Sayers, 503-510. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Gabrys, Jennifer and Helen Pritchard. “Sensing Practices.” In Posthuman Glossary. Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, 394-396. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2018.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Making Worlds at the End of the World.” Forum Review of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna Tsing. In Dialogues in Human Geography 8, no. 1 (2018): 61-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617738830.

Gabrys, Jennifer and Helen Pritchard. “Just Good Enough Data and Environmental Sensing: Moving Beyond Regulatory Benchmarks toward Citizen Action.” Special Section: Citizen Data Science. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research 13 (2018); 4-14. https://ijsdir.sadl.kuleuven.be/index.php/ijsdir/article/view/473.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “The Becoming Environmental of Computation: From Citizen Sensing to Planetary Computerization.” Paper based on keynote lecture for the 6th STS Italia Conference — Sociotechnical Environments. Technoscienza 8, issue 1 (2017): 5-21. Abbreviated and revised reprint of “Sensing Air and Creaturing Data.” In Program Earth . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Everything is Experiencing.” Interview with Arie Altena, 33-46. In The Noise of Being. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, 2017.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Citizen Sensing, Air Pollution and Fracking: From ‘Caring about Your Air’ to Speculative Practices of Evidencing Harm.” In the special issue, Care and Policy Practices. Edited by Vicky Singleton, Nat Gill, and Claire Waterton. The Sociological Review 65, no. 2 (2017): 179-192. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081176917710421.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Air Walk: Monitoring Pollution and Experimenting with Forms of Participation.” In Walking through Social Research. Edited by Charlotte Bates and Alex Rhys-Taylor, 144-161. Advances in Research Methods Series. London: Routledge, 2017.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Monitoring and Remediating a Garbage Patch.” In Research Objects in their Technological Setting. Edited by Bernadette Bensaude Vincent,  Alfred Nordmann, Astrid Schwarz, and Sacha Loeve, 201-214. History and Philosophy of Technoscience Series. London: Routledge, 2017.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Practicing, Materializing and Contesting Environmental Data.” Introduction to the special issue, Practicing, Materializing and Contesting Environmental Data. Edited by Jennifer Gabrys and Nerea Calvillo. Big Data & Society 3, no. 2 (2016), 1-7.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Helen Pritchard, and Benjamin Barratt. “Just Good Enough Data: Figuring Data Citizenships through Air Pollution Sensing and Data Stories.” In the special issue, Practicing, Materializing and Contesting Environmental Data. Edited by Jennifer Gabrys and Nerea Calvillo. Big Data & Society 3, no. 2 (2016); 1-14.

Pritchard, Helen and Jennifer Gabrys. “From Citizen Sensing to Collective Monitoring: Working through the Perceptive and Affective Problematics of Environmental Pollution.” In the special issue, Border Topologies. Edited by Nishat Awan. GeoHumanities 2, no. 2 (2016): 354-371. Special issue based on the Border Topologies event.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “A continent. Inter-view.” In continent 5, no. 2 (2016): 32-36. For “The Technosphere, Now,” HKW, Berlin.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Citizen Sensing: Recasting Digital Ontologies through Proliferating Practices.” In the special issue, Digital Ontology. Edited by Antonia Walford and Hannah Knox. Theorizing the Contemporary Series. Cultural Anthropology (24 March 2016).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Re-Thingifying the Internet of Things.” In Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment. Edited by Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker, 180-195. New York and London: Routledge, 2016.

Gabrys, Jennifer. Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Available open access on Manifold.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “The Internet of Things and the Rise of Planetary Computerization: How Environmental Sensing Technologies Multiply Rather than Consolidate Versions of the Planet.” The University of Minnesota Press Blog. As part of the publication of Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (2 March 2016).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City.” In Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?. Edited by Simon Marvin, Colin McFarlane, and Andrés Luque-Ayala, 88-107. London: Routledge, 2016. Abbreviated reprint. First published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32, no. 1 (2014).

Gabrys, Jennifer and Helen Pritchard. “Next-Generation Environmental Sensing: Moving Beyond Regulatory Benchmarks for Citizen-Gathered Data.” Draft conference proceedings. In Proceedings of the workshop Environmental Infrastructures and Platforms 2015 – Infrastructures and Platforms for Environmental Crowd Sensing and Big Data. Edited by Arne J. Berre, Sven Schade, and Jaume Piera, 57-65. Barcelona: European Citizen Science Association General Assembly 2015. 28-30 October 2015.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Helen Pritchard, Nerea Calvillo, Tom Keene, and Nick Shapiro. “Becoming Civic: Fracking, Air Pollution and Environmental Sensing Technologies.” In Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice and Civic Media website. Edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. First published online 2015.

Shapiro, Nicholas. “Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime.” Cultural Anthropology, 30, no. 3 (2015): 368-393.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Programmieren von Umgebungen.” In Internet der Dinge. Edited by Florian Sprenger and Christoph Engemann, 313-342. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2015. German translation of “Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City.”

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Smart Cities as Sustainable Cities: A Visual Essay.” Society & Space. Accompanies the special issue, A New Apparatus: Technology, Government, and the Resilient City. Edited Stephanie Wakefield and Bruce Braun. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 32, no. 1 (2014).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City.” In the special issue, A New Apparatus: Technology, Government, and the Resilient City. Edited by Stephanie Wakefield and Bruce Braun, Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 32, no. 1 (2014): 30-48.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Ecological Observatories: Fluctuating Sites and Sensing Subjects.” In Field_Notes: Field and Laboratory as Sites for Art & Science Practices. Edited by Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, and Terike Haapoja, 178-187. Helsinki: Suomen Biotaiteen Seura (Finnish Society of Bioart), 2013.