Richard Canevez

@hawaii.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Communications
University of Hawaii - Manoa

Richard Canevez


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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

138

Scholar Citations

7

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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, Joseph G. Bock
    Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society, 2023
    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
    ZWARUN, Lara, CANEVEZ, Richard
    Essachess Journal for Communication Studies, 2023
    This study considers how the communication strategies used by Ukraine since it was invaded by Russia in February 2022 are contextualized by its response to the Russian invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine 8 years earlier. Survey data and interviews with Ukrainian citizens in 2015 reveal a civil society with distrust of media, well-developed information literacy, a willingness to play an active role in finding credible information, and a strong spirit of self-reliance resulting from distrust of their government and Russia. Ukrainians’ early recognition of the importance of digital information space in challenging Russia’s sophisticated disinformation tactics enabled their under-developed public diplomacy to rapidly evolve after the 2022 invasion and contributed to their success in soliciting support and exhibiting resistance in the war against their long-standing adversary.
  • 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, Jenifer Sunrise Winter
    Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 2022
    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, Raphael Rodriguez
    Information Technology and People, 2022
    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
    Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022
  • STEM Educational Outreach and Indigenous Culture: (Re)Centering for Design Scholarship
    Richard Canevez, Carleen Maitland, James Shaw, Soundous Ettayebi, Charlene Everson
    International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 2022
    Integrating Indigenous culture into STEM education is a critical process in building pathways to justice and diversifying design. This process serves to (re)center our conceptions of STEM education by challenging strictly Western notions of STEM, representing an opportunity for learning not just in curricular design, but in technological design as well. Postcolonial computing scholars have critically examined design processes, highlighting the dominance of Western knowledge undergirding cross-cultural design. However, such efforts have yet to fully leverage insights from national curricular (re)centering initiatives. We take up this opportunity through a qualitative case study of an educational outreach organization in British Columbia, Canada, a subsidiary of a nation-wide effort in curricular integration of Indigenous and Western STEM material. Applying postcolonial computing thought, we offer enrichments to theory by providing an empirical basis for a) integrating resiliency, b) politicization in design, and c) arguments for (re)centering epistemological authority in computing. These contributions both enrich theory and enhance the practice of cross-cultural design by encouraging and exploring an Indigenous (re)centering of our understanding of both curricular and technological design.
  • 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, Matthew Rantanen
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2020
    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, Rantanen
    Journal of Information Policy, 2020
    Abstract Technological mediation describes the process where internet service providers (ISPs) translate telecommunications network innovations from the “technological frontier” to their particular commercial context. Although the original conception defined three obstacles during this process (technical, commercial, and structural), how these obstacles unfold has yet to be fully investigated. Using a qualitative case study with a rural ISP, we identify extensions to the model, in particular emotional response during mediation and their relationship to the dynamic elements mediation process. This illuminates how commercial market maturation impacts the organizations adopting these technologies, and the impacts of experience on the dynamic nature of technological mediation.

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
    2024.0
    Citations: 10
  • Tactics and affordances in the mediatization of war: pro-Ukrainian cyber resistance on Telegram. Digital War 5, 167–180
    RN Canevez, K Maikovska, L Zwarun
    2024.0
    Citations: 5
  • 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
    2023.0
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2023.0
    Citations: 6
  • ESSACHESS–Journal for Communication Studies
    L ZWARUN, R CANEVEZ
    2023.0
  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 28
  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 32
  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 20
  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 3
  • " 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
    2021.0
  • 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
    2021.0
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2021.0
  • 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
    2020.0
    Citations: 9
  • 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
    2020.0
    Citations: 8
  • 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
    2020.0
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2019.0
    Citations: 4
  • 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
    2018.0
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2018.0
  • 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
    2017.0
    Citations: 9
  • CURRICULUM FROM EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
    R Canevez, J Shaw, S Ettayebi, C Everson

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 32
  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 28
  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 20
  • 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
    2024.0
    Citations: 10
  • 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
    2020.0
    Citations: 9
  • 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
    2017.0
    Citations: 9
  • 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
    2020.0
    Citations: 8
  • 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
    2023.0
    Citations: 6
  • Tactics and affordances in the mediatization of war: pro-Ukrainian cyber resistance on Telegram. Digital War 5, 167–180
    RN Canevez, K Maikovska, L Zwarun
    2024.0
    Citations: 5
  • 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
    2019.0
    Citations: 4
  • 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
    2022.0
    Citations: 3
  • 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
    2023.0
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2021.0
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2020.0
    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
    2018.0
    Citations: 1
  • ESSACHESS–Journal for Communication Studies
    L ZWARUN, R CANEVEZ
    2023.0
  • " 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
    2021.0
  • 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
    2021.0
  • 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
    2018.0
  • CURRICULUM FROM EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
    R Canevez, J Shaw, S Ettayebi, C Everson