Michaelanne Thomas pictured in an alley with colorful graffiti and gritty textures

My article, “Aspiring toward decency: Collectively and creatively appropriating information communication technology in Havana,” was published in New Media & Society in January 2026. (full text pdf)

My article, “Relational Infrastructures of Survival: How Social Dependencies Enable Alternative Internets in Cuba,” was published in the Cuban Studies journal in August, 2025.

Dr. Ben Zhang, co-advised by Dr. Oliver Haimson and me, successfully defended his dissertation, “Infrastructuring Data Values: An Ethnography of AI Production, Labor, and Data Marketplaces in the Chinese Datafied State,” in August, 2025.

Our co-authored article, “The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences,” led by Ben Zefeng Zhang, along with Tianling Yang, Milagros Miceli, and Oliver Haimson, was published at CHI 2025, in April 2025.

Presented the paper, “Embracing Interdependence to Address Climate Migration,” at the HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis workshop during CSCW 2024 in November, 2024.

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