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Refereed Journal Articles

Jucan, I.B., Vasudevan, R., Burton, A.B., Wu, T., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Performing “Left and Right”. Theatre Journal, 73(3), E-9 — E-14 [web-only content]. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/807846.

Vasudevan, R. (2021). Share and share unlike: Reciprocity, corporate power and the open source ethos. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211038350.

Vasudevan, R. (2021). Proclamations and paraphernalia: #Bellwether, Editor‘s Notes and the art of remixing the political document. Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus, 17(1), 149-168. DOI: 10.21900/j.median.v17i1.484.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Choi, J.H. & Vasudevan, R. (2022). Seeing like a state (of surveillance). ACM Interactions, March/April 2022, 26-28. DOI: 10.1145/351169.

Vasudevan, R. (2018). Memes, merch and the media in the 2016 election. Adjacent: The ITP-IMA Journal of Emerging Media. Issue 3. https://itp.nyu.edu/adjacent/issue-3/memes-merch-and-the-media-in-the-2016-election-2/.

Op-Eds, Art Writing & Public Scholarship

Vasudevan, R. (2022, forthcoming). “Translate, compile, interpret: What is lost when humans conform to technology?” In Ethical Intelligence (ed. M. Zarfsaz).

Vasudevan, R. (March 2022). “Solidarity, reciprocity, distribution”. Just Tech Platform (Social Science Research Council). https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/solidarity-reciprocity-distribution/

Vasudevan, R. (October 2020). “Purpose(ful)(less) data”. Originally written for Dark Green of Neither Earth Nor Sky, a project by Lucy Kerr and Karlis Bergs. Shown as part of Time is Out of Joint, the 2020 CalArts MFA thesis exhibition. MAK Center, Los Angeles.