RESEARCH

My research focuses on technology, justice, and inequality (racial, gender, sexuality, and others forms of inequality), and what kinds of relationships form between people, information, and technology.

My work asks questions like “how is the design of information and surveillance technologies shaping social, legal, and data relations?” And, “how can we organize data and knowledge in a way that results in a more democratic and just society?”

Papers

Sociotechnical Harms: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction
arXiv preprint:2210.05791 (2022)
R. Shelby, S. Rismani, K. Henne, A. Moon, N. Rostamzadeh, P. Nicholas, N. Yilla-Akbari, J. Gallegos, A. Smart, E. Garcia, & G. Virk

“Moral Imagination:” A Method for Culture Change in Technology Development
NeurIPS 2022 Cultures in AI/AI in Culture
A. McCroskery, G. Keeling, R. Shelby, S. Blascovich, B. Zevenbergen

From Plane Crashes to Algorithmic Harm: Applicability of Safety Engineering Frameworks for Responsible ML
NeurIPS 2022 Machine Learning Safety Workshop
arXiv preprint:2210.03535 (2022)
S.Rismani, R. Shelby, A. Smart, E. Jatho, J. Kroll, A. Moon, & N. Rostamzadeh

Terms-we-Serve-with: A Feminist-inspired Social Imaginary for Improved Transparency and Engagement in AI
arXiv preprint:2206.02492 (2022)
B. Rakova, M. Ma, & R. Shelby (Presented at Connected Life 2022: Designing Digital Futures, Oxford Internet Institute)

Journal Articles

Situating Questions of Data, Power, and Racial Formation
Big Data & Society (2022)
R. Shelby & K. Henne

The Datification of #MeToo: Whiteness, Racial Capitalism, and Anti-Violence Technologies
Big Data & Society (2021)
K. Henne, R. Shelby, & J. Harb

Technology, Sexual Violence, and Power-Evasive Politics: Mapping the Anti-Violence Sociotechnical Imaginary
Science, Technology, and Human Values (2021)
R.Shelby

Whiteness in and through Data Protection: An Intersectional Approach to Anti-Violence Apps and #MeToo Bots
Internet Policy Review (2021)
R. Shelby, J.Harb & K. Henne

Whose Rape Kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo Kit Through Positivist Criminology and Protocol Feminism
Theoretical Criminology (2020)
R. Shelby

Techno-Physical Feminism
Feminist Media Studies (2019)
R. Shelby

Obscuring Sexual Crime: Examining Media Representations of Sexual Violence in Megan’s Law
Criminal Justice Studies (2014)
R. Shelby & A. Hatch

Book Chapters

Value-Responsible Design and Sexual Violence Interventions
The Handbook on Public Criminologies (2020)
R. Shelby

The Pharmacy Prison: Auditing Prison Pharmaceutical Regime
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America (2020)
A. Hatch & R. Shelby

Sex Trafficking, Inequality, and Our Evolving Legal Consciousness
Focus on Social Problems (2020)
R. Shelby

Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Problem of Whiteness in Leisure and Sport Spaces and Scholarship
The Handbook of Feminisms in Sport, Leisure, and Physical Education (2018)
M. McDonald & R. Shelby

Commentaries

The Conjoined Spectacles of the Smart Super Bowl
Engaging Science and Technology Studies (2020)
R. Shelby, S. Barnes, N. Parvin & M. McDonald

‘I Incite This Meeting to Rebellion’: Sexual Violence, Law Enforcement, and the Radical Feminism of the 1909 Board Game Suffragetto”
ROMChip: Journal of Game Histories (2019)
R. Shelby

Lab Meeting: How Black Lives Matter in Forensic Matter
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience (2017)

Public Sociology

Data, Power, and Racial Formation: Situating Data within Interlocking Systems of Oppression
Big Data & Society Blog (2022)
R. Shelby & K. Henne

Apps Against Sexual Abuse Have Been Tried Before. They Don’t Work
The Conversation (2021)
K. Henne, J. Harb, & R. Shelby

Bonus Episode: Rape Kits
Stuff Mom Never Told You (2019)
R. Shelby

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