I am a writing professor who approaches the study of writing in a bunch of different ways. As you’ll see in my publications, I research everything from mobile composition to locative narratives to infrastructural writing. I also mix in my writing work with other types of media studies work, so my publication list includes a bunch of different types of journals. I also include links to public writing I’ve published in venues like Slate and Salon.
Here’s a downloadable PDF of my CV. The CV is linked to my Dropbox , so it updates regularly, though you might have to X out the Dropbox box to see it. You won’t need to sign in to Dropbox, no matter what it looks like. Oh, and and here’s a link to my Google Scholar profile that tracks my publications and charts their citation impact.
Below you will find a list of my publications. Wherever possible, I include links to files you can access, and each link opens in a new tab. If any of the links are broken, or if you need copies of the book chapters or anything, just email me and let me know.
Books
Frith, J. (2023) Barcode. Object Lessons series, Bloomsbury Academic. You can buy the paperback or kindle version for less than $15.
Evans, L., Frith, J., & Saker, M. (2022) From Microverse to Metaverse. Emerald Publishing.
Frith, J. (2019). A billion little pieces: RFID and infrastructures of identification. Cambridge: MIT Press. Read the intro chapter for free here.
Buy a copy here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/billion-little-pieces
Frith, J. (2015). Smartphones as locative media. London: Polity Press. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745685005.html
A review of my book published by the London School of Economics.
de Souza e Silva, A. & Frith, J. (2012). Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Locational privacy, control, and urban sociability. New York: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415506007/
A review of our book published in the International Journal of Communication.
Edited books
Frith, J. & Saker, M. (Eds.) (2022). The changing face of VR: Pushing the boundaries of experience across multiple industries. Vernon Press
Public Scholarship
Interviewed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal (2024). NPR and American Public Media. https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/23/barcode-staying-power/
Frith, J. (2024). How we almost ended up with a bulls-eye barcode. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-we-almost-ended-up-with-a-bulls-eye-bar-code-219194 (republished by CNN, Fast Company, and >10 other news outlets)
Frith, J. (2023). A complex history of things that never happened. Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/5g-zombies-apocalypse-emergency-alert-system-conspiracy-theory.html
Taylor, H. & Frith, J. (2023). Accessible document design best practices. https://cdq.sigdoc.org/accessible-document-design/
Frith, J. (2023). What you may not know about your holiday shopping: Jordan Frith on the hidden history of the barcode. Bloomsbury Academic blog. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/bloomsbury-academic/blog/featured/what-you-may-not-know-about-your-holiday-gift-shopping/
Frith, J. [podcast interview by Dr. Miranda Melcher] (2023). Barcodes. The New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/barcode
Frith, J. [podcast interview by Dr. Charles Woods] (2023). Keystone Perspective: Barcodes. The Big Rhetorical Podcast. https://player.fm/series/the-big-rhetorical-podcast/episode-150-dr-jordan-frith-keystone-perspectives
Frith, J. [podcast interview by Dr. Ryan Weber] (2023). Jordan Frith on the history of the barcode. 10-Minute Tech Comm. https://tenminutetechcomm.com/index.php/2023/11/17/dr-jordan-frith-on-barcodes/
(2022) (Interviewed for the story) What happens to your digital life when You die? Success. https://www.success.com/digital-life-after-death/
(2020) (Interviewed for television) Why 5G conspiracies are so prevalent. WKRN News. https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/why-5g-conspiracy-theories-are-so-prevalent/
(2020) Why 5G conspiracies are so prevalent. WKRN News. (I was interviewed for Nashville television). https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/why-5g-conspiracy-theories-are-so-prevalent/
(2020) Fearing the invisible: The long history behind the 5G-COVID-19 conspiracy theory. Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-covid19-5g-conspiracy-theory.html (over 100,000 individual reads)
(2020) Radio-Frequency Identification: The shadow of a once-feared technology looms large. Salon. https://www.salon.com/2020/03/08/radio-frequency-identification-the-shadow-of-a-once-feared-technology-looms-large_partner/
(2019) Ever wonder how GPS got inside your phone? Raw Data podcast-Stanford University. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/raw-data/id1042137974#episodeGuid=prx_190_40b98868-2d59-48a1-9d45-f3e74d237cc3
(2019) What we should know about RFID. Daily Tech News podcast. http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/?p=15830
(2019) The invisible infrastructures that pervade our world. Financial Sense podcast. https://www.financialsense.com/podcast/19075/rfid-and-invisible-infrastructure-pervades-our-world-part-1
(2019) What your pet’s microchip has to do with the Mark of the Beast. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/what-your-pets-microchip-has-to-do-with-the-mark-of-the-beast-114493 (later published on Wall Street Window, Alternet, Patheos, Science Times)
(2019) Infrastructures of Identification. MIT Press blog. https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/infrastructures-identification
(2017) The Physicality of Digital Media. TEDX. Denton, TX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA6dlzQr5rY
(2013) Through the Selfie Lens. “Think” with Kris Boyd. National Public Radio. Radio show available here http://goo.gl/XE7tOq
Academic Journal Articles
Frith, J., Campbell, S., & Komen, L. (online first). Looking back to look forward: COVID-19/5G conspiracies and the long history of infrastructural fears. Mobile Media & Communication. [full text]
Frith, J. (online first). Predicting the next decade of mobile communication studies research: More mobile media, fewer mobile phones. Mobile Media & Communication (invited article for the journal’s 10–year anniversary). [full text]
Itchuaqiyaq, C. & Frith, J. (2022). Citational practices as a site of resistance and radical pedagogy: Positioning the Multiply Marginalized and Underrepresented (MMU) scholar database as an infrastructural intervention. Communication Design Quarterly. Communication Design Quarterly, 10 (3), 9-20. (accepted before I took over as editor of the publication) [full text]
Frith, J. (2022). A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks (LBSNs). New Media & Society, 24 (3), 2514-2530. [full text]
Read, S. & Frith, J. (2022). Special issue introduction: Writing infrastructures. Communication Design Quarterly. 10 (3), 1-9. (accepted before I took over as editor of the publication)
Saker, MA. & Frith, J. (2022). Contiguous identities: The virtual self in the supposed Metaverse. First Monday. 27 (3), https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12471
Frith, J. & Read, S. (2022). Special issue introduction: Communication and design infrastructures. Communication Design Quarterly, 10 (2), 4-10. (full special issue)
Frith, J., & Richter, J. (2021). Building participatory counternarratives: Pedagogical interventions through digital placemaking. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 27 (3), 696-710. [full text]
Campbell SW, Zhao F, Frith J, Liang F. (2021) Imagining 5G: Public sense-making through advertising in China and the US. Mobile Media & Communication. 9 (3), 546-562.
Frith, J. (2021). Introduction to business and technical communication and COVID-19: Communicating in times of crisis. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 35, 1-6. [full text]
Frith, J. (2020). Technical standards and an infrastructural theory of writing. Written Communication, 37 (3), 401-427. [full text]
Frith, J. & Saker, M. (2020). It’s all about location: Smartphones and tracking the spread of COVID-19. Social Media & Society, 6 (3), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120948257
Meese, J., Frith, J. & Wilken R. (2020). COVID-19, 5G conspiracies and infrastructural futures. Media International Australia, 177 (1), 30-46. [full text]
Frith, J. (2020). The pedagogical opportunities of technical standards: Learning from the Electronic Product Code. Technical Communication, 67 (2), 42-53. [full text]
Frith, J. (2020). Pushing back on the rhetoric of “real life.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. 8 (2) https://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/pushing-back-on-the-rhetoric-of-real-life/
Frith, J. (2020). Building a more infrastructural media studies. The Journal of Media Art, Study, and Theory. (1,000 word essay for the journal’s inaugural issue) 1 (1). https://mast-nemla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MAST_Vol1_No1.pdf
Saker, M. & Frith, J. (2020). Coextensive space: Virtual reality and the developing relationship between the body, the digital and physical space. Media, Communication, and Society 42, (7-8), 1427-1442. [full text]
Zeffiro, A., Hildebrand, J. M., Frith, J., Hjorth, L., McGrane, C., Weiss, A. S., & Goggin, G. (2020). Locative-Media Ethics: A Call for Protocols to Guide Interactions of People, Place, and Technologies. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 97 (1), 13-29. [full text]
Frith, J. & Ozkul, D. (2019). Mobile media beyond mobile phones. Mobile Media & Communication, 7 (3), 293-302. [full text]
Frith, J. & Wilken, R. (2019). The social shaping of mobile geomedia services: An analysis of Yelp and Foursquare. Communication and the Public, 4 (2), 133-149. [full text]
Saker, M., & Frith, J. (2019). From hybrid space to dislocated space: Mobile virtual reality and a third stage of mobile media theory. New Media & Society, 21 (1), 214-228. [full text]
Saker, M., & Frith, J. (2018). Using location-based social networks to coordinate everyday life. AMPS: Architecture, Media, Politics, Society.
Frith, J., & Saker, M. (2017). Understanding Yik Yak: Location-based sociability and the
communication of place. First Monday, 22 (10), http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7442
Frith, J. (2017). Invisibility through the interface: The social consequences of spatial search. Media, Culture, & Society, 39 (4), 536-551. [online first]
Frith, J. (2017). Big data, technical communication, and the smart city. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 31 (2), 168-187. [full text]
Frith, J. (2017). The digital “lure”: Small businesses and Pokémon Go. Mobile Media & Communication, 5 (1), 50-54. [full text]
Kalin, J., & Frith, J. (2016). Wearing the city: Memory p(a)laces, smartphones, and the rhetorical invention of embodied space. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 46 (3), 222-235. [full text]
Frith, J. (2016). Forum design and the changing landscape of technical communication. Communication Design Quarterly, 4 (2), 12-22. [full text]
Frith, J., & Kalin, J. (2016). Here I used to be: Mobile media and practices of place-based digital memory. Space and Culture, 19 (1), 43-55. [full text]
Frith, J., & Ahern, K. (2015). Make a sound garden grow: Exploring the new media potential of social soundscaping. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 21 (4), 496-508. [full text]
Frith, J. (2015). Writing space: Examining the potential of location-based composition. Computers and Composition: An International Journal, 37: 44-54. [full text]
Van der Nagel, E. & Frith, J. (2015). Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild. First Monday, 20 (3): http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/441
Frith, J. (2015). Communicating behind the scenes: A primer on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Mobile Media & Communication, 3 (1), 91-105. [full text]
Frith, J. (2014). Forum moderation as technical communication: The social web and employment opportunities for technical communicators. Technical Communication, 61(3), 173-184. [full text]
Frith, J. (2014). Communicating through location: The understood meaning of the Foursquare check-in. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(4), 890-905. [full text]
Frith, J. (2014). Social Network Analysis and professional practice: Exploring new methods for researching technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 23(4), 288-302. [full text]
Frith, J. (2013). Turning life into a game: Foursquare, gamification, and personal mobility. Mobile Media & Communication, 1(2), 248-262. [full text]
Frith, J. (2012). Splintered space: The smartphone as the screen to the city. Mobilities, 7(1), 131-149. [full text]
Berube, D., Cummings, C., Frith, J., Binder, A., & Oldendick, R. (2011). Comparing nanoparticle risk perceptions to other known EHS risks. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 13 (8). [full text]
de Souza e Silva, A. & Frith, J. (2010). Locational privacy in public spaces: Media discourses on location-aware mobile technologies. Communication, Culture, and Critique, 3 (4): 503-525. [full text]
de Souza e Silva, A. & Frith, J. (2010). Locative mobile social networks: Mapping communication and location in urban spaces. Mobilities, 5 (4): 485-505. [full text]
Peer-Reviewed Digital Scholarship
Ahern, K. F., & Frith, J. (2013). Speaking back to our spaces: The rhetoric of social soundscaping. Harlot, 9.
Book Chapters
Frith, J. & Saker, M. (under contract). The long and winding road of Virtual Reality development. In J. Frith and M. Saker (Eds.), Exhibiting virtual bodies: The cultural and phenomenological impact of VR on the creative industries.
Frith, J. (2020). RFID, Beacons, and the infrastructures of logistical locative media. In R. Ling, L. Fortunati, G. Goggin (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication.
Frith, J. (2019). Navigating hybrid urban spaces: Smartphones and locative media practices. In Z. Krajina & D. Stephenson (Eds.), Urban Media Companion (pp. 379-388). Routledge.
Frith, J. (2018). Denton, Texas and the rhetorical appeal of authenticity. In C. Boyle & J. Rice (Eds.), Lone Star Rhetoric (pp. 120-129). Southern Illinois University Press.
Frith, J. (2017). Mobilities. In P. Roessler (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Media Effects. Wiley and Sons Publishing. DOI: 10.1002/9781118783764.wbieme0192.
Frith, J. (2017). Life through the screen: Location-based information and the personalization of space. In S. Morey & J. Tinnel (Eds.). Augmented Reality: Innovative Perspectives Across Art, Industry, and Academia (pp. 83-98). Parlor Press.
de Souza e Silva, A. & Frith, J. (2015). Location-based mobile games and location-based social networks: Interfaces to urban spaces. In V. Frissen, S. Lammes, M. De Lange, J. De Mul, & J. Raessens (Eds.). Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures (pp. 169-179). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
de Souza e Silva, A. & Frith, J. (2013). Re-narrating the city through the presentation of location. In J. Farman (Ed.), The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies (pp. 34-50). New York, NY: Routledge.
Cumming, C. L., Frith, J., & Berube, D. (2013). Unexpected appropriations of technology and life cycle analysis: Reframing cradle-to-grave approaches. In M. Gorman, N. Savage, & A. Street (Eds.) Emerging Technologies: Socio-Behavioral Life-Cycle Approaches (pp. 251-271). New York, NY: Pan Stanford Publishing.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (2012). Location-aware technologies: Control and privacy in hybrid spaces. In J. Packer & S. B. C. Wiley (Eds.), Communication matters: Materialist approaches to media, mobility and networks (pp. 265-275). Routledge: New York City, NY.
Book Reviews
Frith, J. (2011). A review of “Personal connections in the digital age.” New Media & Society, 13: 1396-1397.
Morain, M., Frith, J., Cummings, C. & Berube, D. (2011). Review essay: Understanding digital media and society. Journal of Communication, 61 (3): E12-14.
Frith, J., Morain, M., Cummings, C. & Berube, D. (2011). The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains & You are not a gadget. Journal of Communication, 61 (1): E9-E12.