Patel, Kush, Ashley Caranto Morford, Arun Jacob. (2026). "Resisting BYOI (Bring Your Own Infrastructure) in Digital Humanities Learning Spaces." Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities. Edited by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies, University of Minnesota Press.
Jacob, Arun, Christina Boyles. (2026). "HealthcAIre Healthcare" The Need to Rename Tech. Edited by Robin Mansell and Crystal Chokshi, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05155-4_4
Richardson, Michael and Arun Jacob. (2026). Mil-Tech Oligarchy and the Security State. Science as Culture. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2026.2648051
Ouellette, Marc A., and Arun Jacob. (2026). Skimming off the top: associative searches, visual results and the end of reading. Iowa Journal of Communication, 58(2), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.17613/fap0g-71n82
Facca, Danica, and Arun Jacob. (2025). Bloody frontier politics: Menstrual equity, military inclusion, and the Canadian workplace. Diversity & Inclusion Research, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70029
We examine how menstrual concealment and suppression technologies are made available to AFAB soldiers as military technological solutions for occupational health that simultaneously expand participation and reinforce cultural beliefs that menstruation is a logistical problem to be minimized and/or erased in service of operational readiness.
Noone, Rebecca, and Arun Jacob. (2025). Forced reproduction: abortion access in a landscape of data violence. Journal of Gender Studies, 00(00), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2505573
While popular responses to tracking practices call for increased data protections, this paper challenges the position that legislation can help undo these harms. In examining the practices of data intermediaries and the legal contexts that protect them, this article argues that data intermediaries are not simply bad actors profiting from post-Dobbs regulations but they reify a culture of forced reproduction through the instrument of data violence.
Jacob, Arun and Elizabeth Di Emanuele. (2024). “AKA WWJD?: Interrogating Gendered Ideologies and Urban Revanchism”, Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma AKA The Jessica Jones Anthology edited by Mary Grace Lao, Jessica Bay and Pree Rehal, University of Calgary Press. pp. 243-252. https://ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/9781773855752.
Kilgrave’s psychological abuse of his victims, his absolute and total control, his manipulation, and his dominance over their agency are all part of what makes him utterly terrifying: his powers are subtle exaggerations of very real human abilities.
Noone, Rebecca, and Arun Jacob. (2024). “Bad Boundaries: Geofences and the Intimacies of Location Data,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 48, Special Issue: Platform Intimacies. https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2023-0035
Geofencing is a practice that exploits the intimacy of locational data not simply by accessing private data but also by using intimate data to index the body in relation to risk and safety and property and trespass.
Bryant, Haley, Nelanthi Hewa, Camille Inston and Arun Jacob (2022).“Making the most of the ‘crisortunity’: Techno-fixes and precarity in a global pandemic” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 3, no. 2, Dec 02, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.db5a6abe.
What does a robust and useful technological response to a crisis, aware and attentive to the biases and messages of digital media, look like?
Jacob, A. (2021). "Follow The Ho Chi Minh Trail: Analyzing the Media History of the Electronic Battlefield." IDEAH. 2(1).
This paper is about the the media history of the electronic battlefield and GIS.
Boulay, N., Morford, A. C., Jacob, A., Patel, K., O'Donnell, K. (2021). "Transforming DH Pedagogy." Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique. 11(1).
This paper is describing the ways in which new forms of pedagogical practices are expanding and changing the field of Digital Humanities.