Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Ryder, C. (2026) “Affordance Folklore: Truth, Connection and Transgression during Sri Lanka’s Internet Shutdowns”, New Media & Society, Special Issue on “Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms”. doi.org/10.1177/14614448251357

Ryder, C. (2026b) Introducing the Information Influencers of Sri Lanka: Blurring the Lines between Digital Activism and Social Media Influencing. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 13(1-2), 46-67. doi.org/10.1163/22142312-bja10093

Ryder, C (2026c) ‘The Digital IRL: Twitter, Sri Lanka and the Place of Ethnography. Anthropology Now, 1-11. doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2026.2708600

Ryder, C. (2026). Despicable digital banter: Racist black and brown politicians in the U.K. First Monday, 31(5). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v31i5.15438

Ryder, C & Miller, D (2026) “Ethnography and the Augmented Interview”, Journal of Material Culture, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/13591835261421135

Ryder, C (2024) “Becoming Augmented: The Latent Possibilities of Research in a Pandemic”, Possibility Studies & Society, 3(1), 63-77. doi.org/10.1177/27538699241264608

Ryder, C (2022) “We Are the Forgotten Lot”, Brief Encounters 1(6). doi.org/10.24134/be.v6i1.279

Submitted Journal Articles: 

Ryder, C & Oh, D. (forthcoming) “Participatory parity and epistemic justice in commons-oriented content moderation: A digital ethnographic case study of Trust Cafe”, Accepted. Publication due Autumn 2026.

Ryder, C. ‘Anti Ai Activist Smoothie: A Street Ethnography of the #TeslaTakedown Protests in London’, Platform & Society

Ryder, C. ‘Algorithm-free social media: Trust Cafe as political media resistance. Information, Communication & Society

Diepeveen, Ryder, C, de Seta et al. ‘One Future Fits All: Text-to-image AI and the Narrowing of Global Imagination’, Convergence

Submitted Book Chapters:

Ryder, C “From a Place of Mistrust: LLM as Conniving Ethnographic Assistant” in (eds.) de Seta et al Synthetic Situations: Ethnographic Strategies for Post-Artificial Worlds, Routledge: London.

Research Web Publications

Ryder, C. et al. (2021) “Mapping deepfakes with digital methods & visual analytics”, DMI Summer School 2021, University of Amsterdam. Available here

Ryder, C. et al. (2021) “Conspiratorial hermeneutics via words & images”, DMI Summer School 2021, University of Amsterdam. Available here

Articles in Writing 

Ryder, C & Yenn, L. “We do not have the privilege of Westerns to search for new platforms, we need to be where the action is right now!”: Proposing a global framework of Digital Gentrification” (Information, Communication, Society)

Ryder, C. ‘Synthetic Extremism: A posthuman critique of extreme speech online’, Internet Policy Review