杏吧原创

Biography

I am an Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies. I received my PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2008 where I worked with the Glasgow Media Group. Before coming to 杏吧原创, I was a Lecturer in Digital Media and Mass Communication at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow.

My current research interests focus on the intersection of lesbian media history, queer theory, and trans studies. I am currently working on a book project about how we use media to make our identities. For a small taste of this, take a look at a piece I wrote for The Conversation: .

My past work has explored normative design practices that become embedded within media technologies, including social media software, mobile phone apps, and technologies associated with television news production. A set of articles explores how social media companies program gender in different locations within their platforms and the implications of these practices. Sexual violence and speculative design have also been a focus of some of this work. Dr. Amy Hasinoff (UC Denver) and I developed Feature Analysis as a method for researchers to identify and analyze ideology within a set of mobile apps.

Selected Publications

Hasinoff, A. and Bivens, R. (2026) How to use feature analysis to reveal dominant norms and assumptions in a set of apps, in B. Marent (ed.) Berlin: De Gruyter, 345-361.

Hasinoff, A. and Bivens, R. (2021) . Journal of Digital Social Research, 3(2): 89-113. doi: 10.33621/jdsr.v3i2.56.

Bannerman, S., Baade, C., Bivens, R., Regan Shade, L., Shepherd, T., Zeffiro, A. (2020) . Canadian Journal of Communication, 45(3) doi: 10.22230/cjc.2020v45n3a3901.

Pasek, A., Bivens, R. and Hogan, M. (2019) . Canadian Journal of Communication, 44(3): 455-469.

Bivens, R. and Khan, U. (2019) Torn: A Social Media Drama over the Aziz Ansari Scandal. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No. 15.

Bivens, R. (2019) Programming the Rules of Engagement: Social Media Design and the Nonprofit System, in M. X. Delli Carpini (ed.) , Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bivens, R. and Hoque, A. S. (2018)聽. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 441-459.

Bivens, R. (2018) Exploiting a Dystopic Future to Unsettle our Present-Day Thinking about Sexual Violence Prevention. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No. 13. doi:聽10.5399/uo/ada.2018.13.5

Bivens, R. (2018) . No More Potlucks, 49.

Bivens, R. and Hasinoff, A. A. (2017) 鈥溾�� Information, Communication & Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1309444

Bivens, R. and Haimson, O. L. (2016) 鈥溾�� Social Media + Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/2056305116672486

Bivens, R. (2016) 鈥溾��, Cyborgology, 27 January. *

Bivens, R. (2015) 鈥溾�� New Media & Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1461444815621527

Bivens, R. (2015) 鈥溾�澛�Feminist Media Studies. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1053717

Bivens, R. and Fairbairn, J. (2015) 鈥淨uit Facebook, Don鈥檛 Sext and Other Futile Attempts to Protect Youth鈥� in S. Tarrant (ed.)聽, New York: Routledge.

Handel, M. J., Bivens, R., Brubaker, J. R., Haimson, O. L., Lingel, J., & Yarosh, S. (2015) 鈥溾��, in聽Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing聽(pp. 122鈥�125). New York, NY, USA: ACM.聽doi:10.1145/2685553.2699337

Bivens, R. (2015) 鈥溾��,听Culture Digitally, June 9.

Bivens, R. (2015) 鈥溾�澛�International Journal of Communication聽9: 191-209.

Bivens, R. (2014)聽, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (ISBN: 9781442615861)

Bivens, R. and Li, C. (2009) 鈥淲eb-Oriented Public Participation in Contemporary China鈥� in G. Monaghan and S. Tunney (eds.)聽, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.

Bivens, R. (2008) 鈥溾�澛�Journalism Practice聽2(1): 113-129.聽doi: 10.1080/17512780701768568