WRITING
Selected Works
Avle. S. (In press). Locating the datafication of the everyday in Africa. In Bergere, C, Krikorian, M, and Kraidy, M. (eds.) Southern Digitalities: Data, Work, Belonging, Epistemologies. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Avle, S., Frimpong-Amaning, K., and Agyei-Agyemang, K. (2025). Data as collateral. Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Zhao, L., Avle, S., Frimpong-Amaning, K. and Agyei-Agyemang, K. (2025). Data breach. Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Avle, S. & Hardy, J. (2024) 'What is techno-optimism?' The Conversation.
Soden, R., Ribes, D., Avle, S., Fox, S., Sengers, P., Paudel, S. and Marathe, M. (2023). Historicism in/as CSCW Method: Research, Sensibilities, and Design. In CSCW ’23: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, October 2023.
Ribes, D., Soden, R., Avle, S., Fox, S. E., & Sengers, P. (2023). What is History ‘for' in CSCW Research?. In Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 398-400).
Avle, S. (2022). Hardware and data in the platform era: Chinese smartphones in Africa. Media, Culture &
Society, 44(8) 1473–1489.
Avle, S. (2022) Data practices and protections in Nigeria. Internews ADAPT Report.
Nikoi, N. & Avle S. (2022). In between hogging and passing the mic: Or, the unintended consequences of networked radio in Ghana. Bandung Journal of the Global South.
Avle, S. (2022) Data practices and protections in Kenya. Internews ADAPT Report.
Kuo, R., Chen, Y., Lin, C., Avle, S. (2022). Triangulating race, capital, and technology. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts).
Avle, S. (2021) Side by side: Tech collaborations in Shenzhen. Hardware Things 2021, p10-11.
Soden, R., Ribes, D., Avle, S. & Sutherland, W. (2021). Time for historicism in CSCW: An invitation.
Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction. CSCW2, October 2021. *Best Paper Award*.
Avle, S. & Fox, S. (2021) Tech labor: A new Interactions forum. ACM Interactions, 28(4), 24-26.
Jack, M. and Avle, S. (2021). A feminist geopolitics of technology. Global Perspectives (2021) 2 (1).
Avle, S. (2020). ‘Making as Imaginative Crossroads: Ghanaian makers and the geopolitics of technology
progress.’ Proceedings of ASIS&T, 83rd Annual Meeting: Information for a sustainable world:
Addressing society’s grand challenges. October 2020.
Avle, S., Lin, C., Hardy, J. & Lindtner, S. (2020). ‘Scaling techno-optimistic visions’. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6 (2020), 237-254.
Avle, S. (2020). ‘Radio via mobile phones: The intersecting logics of media technologies in Ghana'.
Media, Culture, and Society, 42(5), 789-799.
Avle, S. (2020). ‘Articulando e performando desenvolvimento: retornantes qualificados no negócio de
TICs do Gana’. In Comunidades, Algoritmos e Ativismos Digiais: Olhares Afrodiaspóricos. IBPAD/Literua. Brazil, p230-252. [Portuguese translation of Articulating and Enacting Development (2014)]
Avle, S., Hui, J., Lindtner, S. & Dillahunt, T. (2019) ‘Additional labors of the entrepreneurial self’. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW. November 2019, Article No.: 218, pp 1–24.
Soden, R., Ribes, D., Jack, M., Sutherland, W., Khovanskaya, V., Avle, S., Sengers, P. and Bødker, S. (2019)
"Fostering Historical Research in CSCW & HCI." In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Austin, TX, USA.
Avle, S. (2019) ‘Meet Josh Opoku Agyemang’. Tech + Africa.
Avle, S. & Asuzu, C. (2018) 'Hack, Make, Sell'. Africa is a Country.
Avle, S., Quartey, E., & Hutchful, D. (2018) 'Research on mobile phone data in the global south: Opportunities and challenges'. In Foucault-Welles & Gonzales-Bailon (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Avle, S., Li, D. & Lindtner, S. (2018) 'Responsible IoT after techno-solutionism'. The State of Responsible IoT 2018. Things Con.
Avle, S. (2018) ‘Meet an African maker/ tech entrepreneur’. Tech + Africa.
Avle, S. (2018) ‘Why Tech + Africa’. Tech + Africa.
Lindtner, S. & Avle, S. (2017) 'Tinkering with governance: Technopolitics and the economization of citizenship'. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 1, Issue CSCW December 2017, Article No.: 70, pp 1–18.
Avle, S., Lindtner, S., & Williams, K. (2017) ‘How methods make designers’. Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17), pp 472- 483.
Avle, S. (2016) ‘“Radio locked on @citi973”: FM radio audiences on Twitter’. In Willems, W. & Mano, W. (eds) Everyday media culture in Africa: Audiences and Users, pp 161 - 179. London, New York: Routledge.
Avle, S. & Lindtner, S. (2016) 'Design(ing) "here" and "there": Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Processes'. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16), pp 2233 - 2245.
Pearson, B.A. J & Avle, S. (2016) 'Chasing the "Bottom Billion": Tech companies and the selling of global connectivity.'
Avle, S. (2015) ‘Situating Ghana’s new media industry: liberalization and transnational entrepreneurship’. In Halegoua, G. and Aslinger B. (eds) Locating Emerging Media, pp 123-138. London; New York: Routledge.
Avle, S. & Adunbi, O. (2015) ‘Whose freedom? Which information? – Discourses on Freedom of
Information policies’. Journal of Information Policy, Vol. 5 (2015), pp 179-203.
Avle, S. (2015) 'Networked radio: The role of social media interactivity in radio broadcasts in Ghana'.
Avle, S. (2014)'Articulating and enacting development: Skilled returnees in Ghana's ICT industry'. Information Technologies & International Development 10 (4), pp 1-13.
Avle, S. (2012) 'Flux mondiaux médias et démocraties en développement: Le cas du Ghana'. Afrique Contemporaine 2011/4 (n° 240), pp 93-107 [Translation of Global Flows].
Avle, S. (2011) 'Global flows, media, and developing democracies: The Ghanaian case'. Journal of African Media Studies 3:1, pp 7-23.