Ilana Gershon professor Rice University Commons username: @igershon ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0447-0694 http://www.campanthropology.org Following 4 members View ProfileActivitySites 0Following 4Followers 3Groups 2ForumsDocs 0 Academic InterestsActor-network theoryAnimationDemocratic theoryemploymentlabor studiesLaw and culturelegal anthropologyLinguistic anthropologyNew mediawork Commons GroupsHCAnthropologyLabor Studies Recent Commons Activity deposited Reflecting on/for better worl… deposited Bullshit Genres: What to Watc… in the group Labor Studies deposited Bullshit Genres: What to Watc… in the group Anthropology deposited Bullshit Genres: What to Watc… deposited Reflective Conversation: Revi… in the group Anthropology EducationUniversity of Chicago, Phd Blog Posts KCWorksJournal articleSemiotic Determinacy: Sovereign Citizens’ Approach to Legal Language (2025-04-22)Prefigurative Neoliberalism: A Provisional Analysis of the Global Sovereign Citizen Movement (2025-04-18)Bullshit Genres: What to Watch For When Studying the New Actant ChatGPT and Its Siblings. (2023)Click for work: Rethinking work through online work distribution platforms (2023)Reflecting on/for better worlds (2023)Genres are the drive belts of the job market (2022)The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021 (2022)Introduction: genre work and the new economy (2022)Reprises: Seeing like an author: early Bakhtin for anthropologists (2021)Trump’s Appeal: Choosing Autocracy over the Committee (2021)Plague Jobs: US Schismogenetic Approaches to Social Contracts (2021)Genres in new economies of language (2021)You got a hole in your belly and a phone in your hand: How US government phone subsidies shape the search for employment (2021)The Breakup 2.1: The ten-year update (2020)Undercover Boss’s Travels: Comparing the US and UK Reality Shows (2019)Porous social orders (2019)Hailing the US job-seeker: origins and neoliberal uses of job applications (2019)Employing the CEO of Me, Inc.: US corporate hiring in a neoliberal age (2018)UNDERCOVER BOSS BLUES (2018)Knowing adoption and adopting knowledge (2017)Language and the Newness of Media (2017)Actor-Theory Network and Documentary Studies (2017)Everytime We Type Goodbye: Heartbreak American-Style (2017)I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man (2017)Outspoken Indigenes and Nostalgic Migrants: Maori and Samoan Educating Performances in an Aotearoa New Zealand Cultural Festival (2017)When the State Tries to See Like a Family: Cultural Pluralism and the Family Group Conference in New Zealand (2015)Selling Your Self in the United States (2015)What Do We Talk about When We Talk About Animation (2015)Animating interaction (2014)Publish and be damned: New media publics and neoliberal risk (2013)Un-Friend My Heart: Facebook, Promiscuity, and Heartbreak in a Neoliberal Age (2012)Critical Review Essay: Studying Cultural Pluralism in Courts versus Legislatures (2011)Neoliberal Agency (2011)Documentary Studies and Linguistic Anthropology (2011)Media Ideologies: An Introduction (2010)Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Media Switching and Media Ideologies (2010)Living Theory (2009)Being Explicit about Culture: Māori, Neoliberalism, and the New Zealand Parliament (2008)Mirrors and Numbers among Others: Technologies of Identification in Papua New Guinea (2008)Email my heart: remediation and romantic break-ups (2008)Viewing Diasporas from the Pacific: What Pacific Ethnographies Offer Pacific Diaspora Studies (2007)Compelling culture: The rhetoric of assimilation among Samoan migrants in the United States (2007)When Culture Is Not A System: Why Samoan Cultural Brokers Can Not Do Their Job (2006)Seeing like a system: Luhmann for Anthropologists (2005)How to Know When Not to Know: Strategic Ignorance When Eliciting for Samoan Migrant Exchanges (2000)Online publication“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job (2023)New Media and Laborunlocked (2022)Reflective Conversation: Revisiting and Revitalizing Ethnographies of Legislatures (2021)Studying Humanities Teaches You How to Get a Job (2017)Indigeneity for Life: Bro’town and Its Stereotypes (2007)Blog postDon’t Post So Close To Me (2023)Zoom is the least of our problems (2021)Trump Gives Fascism a Bad Name (2021)Hello to Tristes Tropes (2021)Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk (2018)Job Search 101: Debunking 5 Popular Myths that No Longer Apply (2017)The quitting economy (2017)BookLiving With Monsters (2023)Book sectionPlanning Your Research (2021)Digital Economy and Labor (2021)Media as Channel (2020)A Business of One or Nurturing the Craft: Who are You? (2019)Every Click You Make, I’ll Be Watching You: Facebook Stalking and Neoliberal Information (2018)Calling the Irrational Unmanageable Neoliberal Self (2018)Keepin’ It Real: Facebook’s Honesty Box and Ethnic Verbal Genres (2017)Keepin’ It Real: Facebook’s Honesty Box and Ethnic Verbal Genres (2017)Language and Media/Technology (2014)Legislative Authenticity and the Politics of Recognition: How to be a Maori Member of Parliament (2012)And Then She Texted: Entextualization and the End of Relationships (2012)Bruno Latour (2010)Converting Meanings and the Conversion of Meaning in Samoan Moral Economies (2006)ReviewOn the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Dog.A Review Essay (2011)
