By Dr Ash Watson

Books

Lupton D; Southerton C; Clark M; Watson A, 2021, The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis, De Gruyter, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110723717

Book Chapters

Lupton D; Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V, 2024, 'Sensory Engagements With Lively Data: Attuning to the convivialities of more-than-human worlds', in The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography, Routledge, pp. 300 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003317111-29

Watson A, 2023, 'Youth, zines and music scenes', in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture, Bloomsbury, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/bloomsbury-handbook-of-popular-music-and-youth-culture-9781501333705/

Watson A; Bennett A, 2022, 'Why Do People Read Zines? Meaning, Materiality and Cultures of Reading', in Thumala Olave MA (ed.), The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 65 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8_3#DOI

Southerton C; Clark M; Watson A; Lupton D, 2022, 'The Futures of Qualitative Research in the COVID-19 Era: Experimenting with Creative and Digital Method', in Matthewman S (ed.), A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 155 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800885141.00016

Byron P; McKee A; Watson A; Litsou K; Ingham R, 2022, 'Pornography and porn literacy', in What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research?, Routledge, pp. 65 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003232032-6

Watson A; Bennett A, 2022, 'Why Do People Read Zines? Meaning, Materiality and Cultures of Reading', in The Cultural Sociology of Reading, Springer International Publishing, pp. 65 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8_3

Journal articles

Lupton D; Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V, 2024, 'It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information', Visual Studies, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2316132

Watson A; Kirby E; Churchill B; Robards B; LaRochelle L, 2024, 'What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map', Sociological Review, 72, pp. 99 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261231199861

Lupton D; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Rose MC; Watson A, 2023, 'More-than-Human Wellbeing: Materialising the Relations, Affects, and Agencies of Health, Kinship, and Care', M/C Journal, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2976

Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Lupton D, 2023, 'Health information in creative translation: establishing a collaborative project of research and exhibition making', Health Sociology Review, 32, pp. 42 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2023.2171802

Watson A; Lupton D; Michael M, 2023, 'The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method', Visual Studies, 38, pp. 594 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2043774

Lupton D; Watson A, 2022, 'Research-Creations for Speculating About Digitized Automation: Bringing Creative Writing Prompts and Vital Materialism into the Sociology of Futures', Qualitative Inquiry, 28, pp. 754 - 766, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778004221097049

Watson A, 2022, 'The familiar strange of sociological fiction', Sociological Review, 70, pp. 723 - 732, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261221109031

Watson A; Lupton D, 2022, 'What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas', Sociological Research Online, 27, pp. 690 - 706, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13607804221084343

Watson A; Lupton D, 2022, 'Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods', International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, pp. 16094069221078376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069221078376

Watson A, 2022, 'Writing sociological fiction', Qualitative Research, 22, pp. 337 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794120985677

Watson A; Lupton D; Michael M, 2021, 'The COVID digital home assemblage: Transforming the home into a work space during the crisis', Convergence, 27, pp. 1207 - 1221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565211030848

Watson A; Bennett A, 2021, 'The felt value of reading zines', American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 9, pp. 115 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41290-020-00108-9

Watson A; Smartt Gullion J, 2021, 'Editorial: Fiction as Research – Writing Beyond the Boundary Lines', Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/issue/view/1947

Watson A; Lupton D; Michael M, 2021, 'Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies', Media International Australia, 178, pp. 136 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x20961568

Kirby E; Watson A; Churchill B; Robards B; LaRochelle L, 2021, 'Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive', Media, Culture & Society, 43, pp. 1043 - 1060, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443720986005

Byron P; McKee A; Watson A; Litsou K; Ingham R, 2021, 'Reading for Realness: Porn Literacies, Digital Media, and Young People', Sexuality and Culture, 25, pp. 786 - 805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-020-09794-6

Watson A; Lupton D, 2021, 'Tactics, affects and agencies in digital privacy narratives: a story completion study', Online Information Review, 45, pp. 138 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-05-2020-0174

Lupton D; Watson A, 2020, 'Towards more-than-human digital data studies: developing research-creation methods', Qualitative Research, 21, pp. 463 - 480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794120939235

Watson A, 2020, 'Methods Braiding: A Technique for Arts-Based and Mixed-Methods Research', Sociological Research Online, 25, pp. 66 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780419849437

Baker S; Buttigieg B; Cantillon Z; Pavlidis A; Rodriguez Castro L; Watson A, 2020, 'Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology: Analysis of a blended and flipped interactive workshop model', Journal of Sociology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783320934180

Watson A, 2016, 'Directions for Public Sociology: Novel Writing as a Creative Approach', Cultural Sociology, 10, pp. 431 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975516639081

Conference Papers

Robards B; Watson A; Kirby E; Churchill B; LaRochelle L, 2020, 'Queering the Map: Physical traces and digital places of queer lives', Dublin/Online, presented at Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference "Life", Dublin/Online, 26 October 2020 - 31 October 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11319

Reports

Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Lupton D, 2023, Creative Approaches to Health Information Ecologies: Summary Report, UNSW Sydney and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society., Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28612, http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_84117

O'Neill C; Sadowski J; Andrejevic M; Lewis K; van Toorn G; Lobato R; Binns D; Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V, 2023, Social Issues in Automated Decision-Making, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kvH1l3MFy1_Fhmqb6GVz_BW2WVAmMxx-/edit#heading=h.76m86r9jjbk9

Creative Written Works

Watson A, 2023, So Fi Zine #14, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-14/

Watson A, 2023, So Fi Zine #13, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-13/

Watson A, 2023, Bits/Bytes/Dreams, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://francesstreetpress.com/bits/

Watson A, 2022, So Fi Zine #12, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-12

Watson A, 2022, So Fi Zine #11, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-11/

Watson A, 2022, So Fi Zine #10, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-10/

Watson A, 2021, So Fi Zine #9, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-9/

Watson A, 2020, So Fi Zine #8, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/edition-8/

Watson A, 2020, So Fi Zine #7, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://sofizine.com/

Watson A, 2020, Into the Sea, Brill, https://brill.com/view/title/57983

Watson A, 2019, So Fi Zine #6, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/

Watson A, 2019, So Fi Zine #5, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/

Watson A, 2018, So Fi Zine #4, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/

Watson A, 2018, So Fi Zine #3, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/

Watson A, 2017, So Fi Zine #2, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/

Watson A, 2017, So Fi Zine #1, Watson A, (ed.), Frances St Press, http://www.sofizine.com/

Media

Watson A, 2024, Speculative fiction for researching the future, ERSC Centre for SocioDigital Futures blog, , https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/02/21/speculative-fiction-for-researching-the-future/

Watson A, 2024, 2023: The Year in Sociological Fiction, The Sociological Review Magazine, , https://thesociologicalreview.org/fiction/2023-the-year-in-sociological-fiction/

Watson A; Clark M; Southerton C; Lupton D, 2021, Fieldwork at your fingertips: creative methods for social research under lockdown, Springer Nature, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00566-2

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