Bivens, R. (2014) Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public Are Shaping TV News, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Reviews: Literary Review of Canada (T. Burman), J-Source (C. Smith), Journalism (J. Braun), International Journal of Communication (M. Kearney), Digital Journalism (R. Sambrook), Critical Studies in Mass Communication (L. Gaspard) + my response [also available as a podcast]
Bivens, R. and Hoque, A. S. (2018) “Programming Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: Infrastructural Failures in ‘Feminist’ Dating App Bumble.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3).
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.
Bivens, R. and Hasinoff, A. A. (2018) “Rape: is there an app for that? An empirical analysis of the features of anti-rape apps” Information, Communication & Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1309444
Bivens, R. (2017) “The gender binary will not be deprogrammed: Ten years of coding gender on Facebook” New Media & Society, 19(6); 880-898.
Bivens, R. and Haimson, O. L. (2016) “Baking Gender Into Social Media Design: How Platforms Shape Categories for Users and Advertisers” Social Media + Society 2(4): 1-12.
Bivens, R. (2015) “Under the Hood: The Software in your Feminist Approach” Feminist Media Studies 15(4): 714-717.
Bivens, R. (2015) “Affording Immediacy in Television News Production: Comparing Adoption Trajectories of Social Media and Satellite Technologies” International Journal of Communication 9: 191-209.
Bivens, R. (2008) “The Internet, Mobile Phones and Blogging: How New Media is Transforming Traditional Journalism” Journalism Practice 2(1): 113-129.
Bivens, R. and Fairbairn, J. (2015) “Quit Facebook, Don’t Sext and Other Futile Attempts to Protect Youth” in S. Tarrant (ed.) Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century, New York: Routledge.
Bivens, R. and Li, C. (2009) “Web-Oriented Public Participation in Contemporary China” in G. Monaghan and S. Tunney (eds.) Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship?, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
Handel, M. J., Bivens, R., Brubaker, J. R., Haimson, O. L., Lingel, J., & Yarosh, S. (2015). Facebooking in “Face”: Complex Identities Meet Simple Databases. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 122–125). New York, NY, USA: ACM. http://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2699337
Bivens, R. (2014) “Morozov Principle” in K. Harvey (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Bivens, R. (2014) “Shirky Principle” in K. Harvey (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Obar, J. A., Taylor, G., Antoine, D., Bivens, R., Caidi, N., Johnson, A., Middleton, C., and Skinner, D. (2014) “Mapping Digital Media: Canada”, New York: Open Society Foundations.
Fairbairn, J., Bivens, R., and Dawson, M. (2013) “Sexual Violence and Social Media: Building a Framework for Prevention”, Ottawa: Crime Prevention Ottawa/Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women.