Overview
Dr. Jenny Lee is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the departments of Science and Technology Studies and Information Science at Cornell University. Her research examines the intersections of labor, identity, and culture behind surveillance use and investment. Dr. Lee’s book project incorporates an intersectional perspective to the study of doorbell camera users in Philadelphia, interrogating the historical and racial politics that shape participatory neighborhood surveillance as care work. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Focus
Surveillance studies; Black feminist, gender, and decolonial studies; digital labor; race and place; digital culture; qualitative and interpretive methods; technology and society
Publications
Lee, J. Feminist Labor Histories of Neighborhood Surveillance. Surveillance & Society. Forthcoming.
Lee, J. & Lingel, J. Everyday Obfuscation: User Resistance and Tactics of Disrupting Surveillance. In R. Fouché (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
Lee, J., Lingel, J., Sanchez, A., Loftis, T. & Mauldin, A. (2024). Mitigating information anxiety in COVID-19 contact tracing for BIPOC communities. Information, Communication & Society, 27(8), 1551-1567.
Lee, J. & Ahn, C. (2023). Colonizers in the neighborhood: a critical discourse analysis of Nextdoor users’ postracial strategies. Information, Communication & Society, 26(12), 2472-2487.