2024

Iliadis, A., & Acker, A. (2024). The Palantir Files: public interest archives for platform accountability. Information, Communication & Society, 1–23.

Kim, Y., Finn, M., Acker, A., Chaudhuri, B., Wedlake, S., Ellis, R., & Srinivasan, J. (2024). Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders and the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data. Big Data & Society, 11(2).

Acker, Amelia (2024). Accessing Software: Emulation in Information Institutions. Information & Culture, 59(1).

2023

Kumar, Akhil. Acker, A. What is a File on a Phone? (2023). Personal Information Management Practices Amongst WhatsApp Users. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW2),1-28.

Sharma, S., Wilson, J., Tian, Y., Finn, M. and Acker, A. (2023), The New Information Retrieval Problem: Data Availability. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60: 379-387.

Sharma, S., Obregon, A., Shaikh, Z., Tian, Y., Finn, M., Acker, A. (2023). Evaluating Tools for Data Management Plans: A Comparative Study of the DART Rubric and the Belmont Scorecard. In: Sserwanga, I., et al. Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023.

Iliadis, A., Acker, A., Stevens, W., & Kavakli, S. B. (2023). One schema to rule them all: How Schema.org models the world of search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–64.

2022

Kriesberg, A., & Acker, A. (2022). The second US presidential social media transition: How private platforms impact the digital preservation of public records. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(11), 1529–1542.

Iliadis, A., & Acker, A. (2022). The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform. The Information Society, 38(5), 334–363.

Acker, A., & Donovan, J. (2023). Data craft: A theory and methods package for critical internet studies. In S. Waisbord (Ed.), The Routledge companion to media disinformation and populism (pp. 47-56). Routledge.

Bennett, A., Sutherland, W., Tian, Y., Finn, M., & Acker, A. (2021, September). Pathways to Data: From Plans to Datasets. In 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 254-257). IEEE

Iliadis, A. J., & Acker, A. (2021). THE SEER AND THE SEEN: A SURVEY OF TOPICS FOUND IN PALANTIR PATENTS. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021.

Acker A. Emulation practices for software preservation in libraries, archives, and museums. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2021; 72: 1148–1160.

Iliadis, A., & Acker, A. (2021). Topic Modeling of Palantir Patents and List of Palantir Contracts. Temple University.

Carter, D., Acker, A., & Sholler, D. (2021). Tech Companies are Secretive; Researchers Need to Get Investigative. Information Matters, 1(10).

Carter D, Acker A, Sholler D. Investigative approaches to researching information technology companies. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2021; 72: 655–666.

Tian, Y., Bennett, A., Sutherland, W., Ferguson, A., Ford, M., Li, J. N. K., Yarbrough, E., Finn, M., & Acker, A. (2021). An Analysis of NSF Data Management Plan Guidelines. iConference 2021 Proceedings

Dhaka, R. and Acker, A (2021). Software Developers’ Online Discourse Concerning User Data in Mobile App Development. SSRN.

Carter D, Acker A, Sholler D. Investigative approaches to researching information technology companies. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2021; 72: 655–666.

Acker, A. (2021). Metadata. Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. The MIT Press.

2020

Carter, D., & Acker, A. (2020). To oblivion and beyond: Imagining infrastructure after collapse. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(6), 1084-1100.

Murthy, D., Sudarshan, S., Lee, J.-A., Ghosh, C., Shah, P., Xiao, W.-J., Arora, I., Unger, C., & Acker, A. (2020). Understanding the meaning of emoji in mobile social payments: Exploring the use of mobile payments as hedonic versus utilitarian through skin tone modified emoji usage. Big Data & Society, 7(2).

Iliadis, A., Stevens, W., Plantin, J.-C., Acker, A., Davies, H., & Eynon , R. (2020). PLATFORMIZING KNOWLEDGE: MESS AND MEANING IN WEB 3.0 INFRASTRUCTURES. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020.

Acker A, Donaldson DR, Kriesberg A, Thomer A, Weber N. Integrating research and teaching for data curation in iSchools. Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2020; 57:e285.

Acker, A.; Chaiet, M. (2020). The weaponization of web archives: Data craft and COVID-19 publics. The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.

Acker, A. (2020). “Emulation Encounters: Software Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums.” In ASIST 2020: Proceedings of the 83rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting.

Acker, A., A. C. Loos, and J. Sufrin. (2020). “The Neil deGrasse Tyson Problem: Methods for Exploring Base Memes in Web Archives.” In International Conference on Social Media and Society (SMSociety ’20), July 22–24, 2020, Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Acker, A. and D. Murthy (2020). “What is Venmo? A descriptive analysis of social features in the mobile payment platform,” Telematics and Informatics, Vol. 52.

Carter, D. and A. Acker (2020). “To Oblivion and Beyond: Imagining Infrastructure After Collapse,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

2019

Acker, A. and A. Kriesberg. (2019). “Social Media Data Archives in an API-Driven World,” Archival Science. 1-19.

Acker, A. and J. Donovan (2019). “Data Craft: A Theory/Methods Package for Critical Internet Studies,” Information, Communication & Society. 1-20.

Bowler, L., Acker, A., and Y. Chi (2019). “Librarian Perspectives on Youth Data Literacy at the Public Library,” Journal of Research on Libraries & Young Adults. 10(2), 1-21.

Acker, A. and T. Clement (2019). “Data Cultures, Cultures of Data,” Journal of Cultural Analytics.