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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Butkowski, C. P., & Corry, F. (2025). (equal authorship). (2025). Social media’s midlife crisis: How public discourse imagines platform futures. Social Media + Society, 11(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251351493

Butkowski, C. P., Wilson, S. R., Wiemer, E. C., & *Kessler, F. (2025). The bad citizen? Framing non-voting on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. election. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Advance online publication, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2025.2455973

Butkowski, C. P. (2024). Record, revise, reinvent, and resist: The politics of social media self-representation during the COVID-19 pandemic. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241262984

Butkowski, C. P., Chan, N. K., Berniker, T., Rodriguez, A., Schlather, K., Zhang, M., & Humphreys, L. (2023). Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: Localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad005

Butkowski, C. P. (2022). Livestreaming Election Day: Political memory and identity work at Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite. Social Media + Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051221086236

Butkowski, C. P., Humphreys, L., & Mall, U. (2022). Computing colorism: Skin tone in online retail imagery. Visual Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14703572221077444

Butkowski, C. P. (2022). “If you didn’t take a selfie, did you even vote?” Embodied mass communication and citizenship models in “I voted” selfies. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14614448211068937

Butkowski, C. P., Chan, N. K., & Humphreys, L. (2022). Community IoT as mobile infrastructure: Methodological challenges and opportunities. At the Intersections of Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics [Special issue]. Media & Communication. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i3.5372

Butkowski, C. P. (2020). Beyond ‘commercial realism’: Extending Erving Goffman’s gender display framework to networked media contexts. Communication, Culture, & Critique, 14(1), 89–108. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa026

Butkowski, C. P., Dixon, T. L., Weeks, K., & Smith, M. (2020). Quantifying the feminine self(ie): Gender display and social media feedback in young women’s Instagram selfies. New Media & Society, 22, 817–837.https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1461444819871669

Guntzviller, L., Liao, D., Pulido, M., Butkowski, C. P. (2020). Advisor interaction goals and verbal messages: Merging a multiple goals approach and the integrated model advice-giving. Journal of Language & Social Psychology, 39, 292–317. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0261927X20912260

Butkowski, C. P., Dixon, T. L., & Weeks, K. (2019). Body surveillance on Instagram: Examining the role of selfie feedback investment in young adult women’s body image concerns. Sex Roles, 81, 385–397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0993-6

Guntzviller, L., Liao, D., Pulido, M., Butkowski, C. P., & Campbell, A. (2019). Extending advice response theory to the advisor: Similarities, differences, and partner-effects in advisor and recipient advice evaluations. Communication Monographs, 87, 114–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2019.1643060

Butkowski, C. P., & Tajima, A. (2017). A critical examination of visualized femininity: Selective inheritance of gender posing from historical painting to contemporary advertising. Feminist Media Studies, 17, 1037–1055. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1300830

Book Chapters and Reviews
Weeks, K. R., Dixon, T. L., Butkowski, C. P., Smith, M. A., Benevento, S., Rollins, D., & Tolbert, A. (2024). The portrayal of Black family social instability: A content analysis of family and race across traditional and new media sources. In T. L. Dixon & D. Mastro (Eds.), US media and diversity: Representation, dissemination, and effects (pp. 84–100). Routledge.

Butkowski, C. P. (2023). #SnailMailRevolution: The networked aesthetics of pandemic letter-writing campaigns. In A. Kuntsman, S. Martin, & E. Miyake (Eds.), Digital disengagement: Covid-19, digital justice, and the politics of refusal. Bristol University Press.

Butkowski, C. P., & Humphreys, L. (2020). Gendered art, work, and self-representation: A comparative analysis of camera-phonographic and painted self-portraits. In L. Hjorth, A. de Souza, & K. Lanson (Eds.), Routledge companion to mobile media art. Routledge.

Butkowski, C. P. (2019). Review of Allison Dahl Crossley, Finding feminism: Millennial activists and the unfinished gender revolution. Women’s Studies in Communication, 42, 398–399. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2019.1645561

Other Scholarship
Gagrčin, E., & Butkowski, C.P. (2023). Out of sight, out of mind: Qualitative methods in political communication. PolComm Report, 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-39042

Bagwala, A., Butkowski, C. P., & Iyer, J. (2023). Lost in digitalization: Stories of digital identity and digital banking in India. Produced through Berkman Klein Center Research Sprint, Harvard University.

Popular Press Writing

Butkowski, C. P. (2025). How social media shapes our political memory: For better or for worse, competing online narratives dictate what we remember and what we forget. Zócalo Public Square (commissioned). https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-social-media-shapes-political-memory/

Butkowski, C. P. (2024). Prepare your social media for the election – 3 tips to stay sane and connected without being overwhelmed. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/prepare-your-social-media-for-the-election-3-tips-to-stay-sane-and-connected-without-being-overwhelmed-238502