Plastics talk/talking plastics: the communicative power of plasticity
(2021)
Book Chapter
McKay. (2021). Plastics talk/talking plastics: the communicative power of plasticity. In Plastic Legacies Pollution, Persistence, and Politics (225-244). https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993272.01
Decorated Duterte: Digital Objects and the Crisis of Martial Law History in the Philippines (2020)
Journal Article
McKay. (2020). Decorated Duterte: Digital Objects and the Crisis of Martial Law History in the Philippines. Modern Languages Open, https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.316Much of the contemporary crisis in coming to terms with the past may have digital origins. We can see this crisis as engineered or assembled through a new series of historical actors: memes and posts on social media and, behind them, the work of trol... Read More about Decorated Duterte: Digital Objects and the Crisis of Martial Law History in the Philippines.
Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster (2019)
Journal Article
McKay, D., & Perez, P. (2019). Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster. Third World Quarterly, 1903-1920. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1634470In a crisis, aid providers deliver humanitarian relief across a hierarchy of organisations where influence and capacity map to their scale of operations (Fouksman, 2016; Mercer & Green, 2015). On the front lines of crises, ‘citizen aid’ is what small... Read More about Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster.