Peer-Reviewed Publications

Applying social shaping of technology, this paper elucidates how imaginaries influence popular perceptions of cybersecurity careers and shape collective understandings of cybersecurity itself.

Foley, M., & Basu, S. (2024). Decoding the gendered imaginary of cybersecurity careers: a social shaping of technology perspective. Information, Communication & Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2391818

Book Reviews

Insisting on themes of Indigenous survivance and the subversion of colonial space-time, Saunders’s narratives collapse the past, present and future into a multidimensional cosmos where the borders between real/fantasy and mythic/mundane are endlessly permeable.

Sovereign Words, Sovereign Worlds

Sulagna Basu, Meanjin, 15 May 2024, https://meanjin.com.au/latest/sovereign-words-sovereign-worlds/

Throughout, Sutherland exposes the enduring objectification and commodification of Black bodies by tracing the disturbing continuities between historical visual records of anti-Blackness and contemporary digital circulations that re-inscribe and reproduce this trauma. The argument is even more pertinent in the present context of digital technologies making images of war and everyday violence observable at speed and in real time.

Basu, S. (2024, February 6). Resurrecting the Black Body by Tonia Sutherland [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.ouyn7054

Research Reports

Since COVID-19, workers have turned to more informal and comfortable fashion alternatives, including leggings, trackpants, t- shirts, jumpers, slippers, and sneakers. Even when working from home, clothes can produce gendered and aged subjectivities with gender roles being transferred to bodies in constrictive ways.

Lipton, Briony, and Sulagna Basu. "Covid Casual: Refashioning Professional Work Attire in the Age of Remote Work." (2022).

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