Richard Canevez

@communications.manoa.hawaii.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Communications
University of Hawaii - Manoa

EDUCATION

B.A. Philosophy - University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Ph.D. Information Sciences and Technology - Pennsylvania State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies, Media Studies, Social Movements

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Scopus Publications

Social and digital media monitoring for nonviolence: a distributed cognition perspective of the precariousness of peace work
Richard Noel Canevez, Jenifer Sunrise Winter, and Joseph G. Bock
Emerald
Purpose This paper aims to explore the technologization of peace work through “remote support monitors” that use social and digital media technologies like social media to alert local violence prevention actors to potentially violent situations during demonstrations. Design/methodology/approach Using a distributed cognition lens, the authors explore the information processing of monitors within peace organizations. The authors adopt a qualitative thematic analysis methodology composed of interviews with monitors and documents from their shared communication and discussion channels. The authors’ analysis seeks to highlight how information is transformed between social and technical actors through the process of monitoring. Findings The authors’ analysis identifies that the technologization of monitoring for violence prevention to assist nonviolent activists produces two principal and related forms of transformation: appropriation and hidden attributes. Monitors “appropriate” information from sources to fit new ends and modes of representation throughout the process of detection, verification and dissemination. The verification and dissemination processes likewise render latent supporting informational elements, hiding the aggregative nature of information flow in monitoring. The authors connect the ideas of appropriation and hidden attributes to broader discourses in surveillance and trust that challenge monitoring and its place in peace work going forward. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to focus on the communicative and information processes of remote support monitors. The authors demonstrate that adoption of social and digital media information of incipient violence and response processes for its mitigation suggests both a social and technical precarity for the role of monitoring.

Looking Back to Look Forward: Ukraine’s Evolving Use of Digital Space for Resistance and Public Diplomacy, 2014-2022

Police Brutality and Racial Justice Narratives Through Multi-Narrative Framing: Reporting and Commenting on the George Floyd Murder on YouTube
Richard N. Canevez, Moshe Karabelnik, and Jenifer Sunrise Winter
SAGE Publications
The increasing use of social media like YouTube as a news platform provides new opportunities for the public to react to news reporting. This convergence produces multi-narrative framings of police violence-related evidence that requires further attention, especially given the potential impact on state accountability processes. Using a frame analysis of news outlets and content analysis of comments on YouTube, we identify frames, responses, and the multi-narrative framing that results from this converging environment. Our findings suggest a triumvirate of competing frames around police brutality, with mistrust of media complicating the role news media plays in accountability.

Exploring the relationship between information and communication technology collective behaviors and sense of community: an urban refugee analysis
Richard Canevez, Carleen Maitland, Ying Xu, Sydney Andrea Hannah, and Raphael Rodriguez
Emerald
PurposeHelping others use information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile phones, can be beneficial for individuals and communities. In urban refugee communities, displaced and living far from home, collective behaviors with mobile phones can generate a sense of belonging. The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for these offline behaviors to generate a sense of community among urban refugees.Design/methodology/approachUsing quantitative evidence, the authors examined the relationship between collective behaviors, such as sharing or helping with a mobile phone, and sense of community. The authors analyzed survey data collected from urban refugees in Rwanda via multiple regression to test hypotheses related to the impact of collective behaviors on sense of community, as well as the mediating role of ICT self-efficacy and gender.FindingsThe findings suggest that collective behaviors with mobile phones have a positive relationship with sense of community, driven primarily by providing assistance as compared to sharing. ICT self-efficacy was positively related to sense of community. However, collective behaviors' impacts differed by gender, suggesting that social dynamics influence this relationship.Originality/valueWhile the extant literature highlights the various roles of mobile phones in refugees' lives, less is known about the social aspects of use and its potential to help overcome isolation by fostering a sense of community. The authors extend this literature to a novel context (urban refugees in the Global South), testing a model that incorporates other factors that may play a role (e.g. self-efficacy and gender). These findings are valuable to urban refugees, due to difficulties in re-building a sense of community and increased ICT access.

Peace Teams in the Protest-Repression Nexus: A Sociomaterial Perspective of De-escalatory Tactics

STEM Educational Outreach and Indigenous Culture: (Re)Centering for Design Scholarship
Richard Canevez, Carleen Maitland, James Shaw, Soundous Ettayebi, and Charlene Everson
Informa UK Limited

The Expression of Power in ICT's Knowledge Enterprise: An Empirical Illustration of Computing's Colonial Impulse
Richard Canevez, Carleen Maitland, Soundous Ettayebi, James Shaw, Charlene Everson, and Matthew Rantanen
ACM
ICT globalization continues to spread hardware, software, and accompanying technologies, so too does knowledges and trainings on those ICTs. This knowledge migration process has been linked by scholars to a 'colonial impulse' inherent in computing as a knowledge enterprise, which incorporates into broader colonizing forces. Through simultaneous explorations of dual case studies with a tribal ISP in California and an educational organization that works with indigenous First Nations communities in British Columbia, we depict how power circulates in this process, both empowering and disempowering communities. We then offer a brief argument for the need to foreground methods and approaches to disentangling these contradicting forces.

A dynamic perspective of internet service provider adoption of emergent network technology: A case study of tribal digital village
Canevez, Maitland, and Rantanen
The Pennsylvania State University Press

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Tactics and affordances in the mediatization of war: pro-Ukrainian cyber resistance on Telegram
RN Canevez, K Maikovska, L Zwarun
Digital War 5 (3), 167-180 2024

Social and digital media monitoring for nonviolence: a distributed cognition perspective of the precariousness of peace work
RN Canevez, JS Winter, JG Bock
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 21 (4), 485-501 2023

Looking back to look forward: Ukraine’s evolving use of digital space for resistance and public diplomacy, 2014-2022
L Zwarun, R Canevez
ESSACHESS–Journal for Communication Studies 16 (1 (31)), 65-91 2023

ESSACHESS–Journal for Communication Studies
L ZWARUN, R CANEVEZ
2023

STEM educational outreach and indigenous culture:(Re) centering for design scholarship
R Canevez, C Maitland, J Shaw, S Ettayebi, C Everson
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 38 (17), 1718-1734 2022

Police brutality and racial justice narratives through multi-narrative framing: Reporting and commenting on the george floyd murder on youtube
RN Canevez, M Karabelnik, JS Winter
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 99 (3), 696-717 2022

Exploring the relationship between information and communication technology collective behaviors and sense of community: An urban refugee analysis
R Canevez, C Maitland, Y Xu, SA Hannah, R Rodriguez
Information Technology & People 35 (2), 526-547 2022

Peace teams in the protest-repression nexus: a sociomaterial perspective of de-escalatory tactics
R Canevez, J Winter
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2022

" Start with where you are": The View of Indigenizing STEM Curriculum from Educational Outreach
R Canevez, J Shaw, S Ettayebi, C Everson
The 6th International STEM in Education Conference 2021

Media Mistrust and the Meta-Frame: Collective Framing of Police Brutality Evidence Reporting on YouTube
R Canevez, M Karabelnik, J Winter
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 2021

ICT and STEM Education at the Colonial Border: A Postcolonial Computing Persepctive of Indigenous Cultural Integration in ICT and STEM Outreach in British Columbia
R Canevez
2021

The expression of power in ICT's knowledge enterprise: An empirical illustration of computing's colonial impulse
R Canevez, C Maitland, S Ettayebi, J Shaw, C Everson, M Rantanen
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and 2020

A Dynamic Perspective of Internet Service Provider Adoption of Emergent Network Technology: A Case Study of Tribal Digital Village
R Canevez, C Maitland, M Rantanen
Journal of Information Policy 10, 83-122 2020

ICT and stem education at the colonial border: A postcolonial computing perspective of indigenous cultural integration into ICT and stem outreach in British Columbia
R Canevez
The Pennsylvania State University 2020

Dynamics of technological mediation: A case of television white space deployment
RN Caneba, CF Maitland
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and 2019

A Cellular Network Radio Access Performance Measurement System: Results from a Ugandan Refugee Settlements Field Trial
C Maitland, R Caneba, P Schmitt, T Koutsky
TPRC 2018

Is This Statement About A Place? Comparing two perspectives (Short Paper)
AM MacEachren, R Caneba, H Chen, H Cole, E Domanico, N Triozzi, ...
10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018

Native American cultural identity through imagery: An activity theory approach to image-power
R Caneba, C Maitland
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and 2017

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Native American cultural identity through imagery: An activity theory approach to image-power
R Caneba, C Maitland
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and 2017
Citations: 8

Dynamics of technological mediation: A case of television white space deployment
RN Caneba, CF Maitland
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and 2019
Citations: 4

Tactics and affordances in the mediatization of war: pro-Ukrainian cyber resistance on Telegram
RN Canevez, K Maikovska, L Zwarun
Digital War 5 (3), 167-180 2024
Citations: 1

Peace teams in the protest-repression nexus: a sociomaterial perspective of de-escalatory tactics
R Canevez, J Winter
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2022
Citations: 1

A Cellular Network Radio Access Performance Measurement System: Results from a Ugandan Refugee Settlements Field Trial
C Maitland, R Caneba, P Schmitt, T Koutsky
TPRC 2018
Citations: 1