articles and chapters – Julia Velkova

Selected

Watts L and Velkova J (2025) From Flatlands to Liveable Futures: Unflattening Energy and Carbon Metrics in the Data Industries. Big Data & Society.
Velkova J & Plantin JC (2023) Data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media: An introduction New Media & Society 25(2).
Velkova J (2023) Retrofitting and Ruining: Bunkered Data Centers In and Out of Time. New Media & Society 25(2).
Velkova J (2019) Data Centres as Impermanent Infrastructures. Culture Machine, vol 18.
Velkova J (2016) Data that warms: Waste heat, infrastructural convergence and the computation traffic commodity. Big Data & Society 3 (2): 1 – 10.

Extended list

Watts L and Velkova J (2025) From Flatlands to Liveable Futures: Unflattening Energy and Carbon Metrics in the Data Industries. Big Data & Society.
Velkova J and Johnson E (2025) Introduction to Special Issue on Critical Data Studies meets Sociology, Sociologisk Forskning, 1-2.
Rohracher H, Velkova J, Magnusson D, Farhangi M (2025) Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
Velkova J (2025) Data Infrastructures and their Temporalities. In: Venturini T, Acker A, Plantin J, et al. (eds) Sage Handbook of Data and Society. SAGE Publications.
Velkova J (2024) “Datenbezogene Thermopolitik. Cloud-Infrastrukturen und Energiezukünfte” (the German title of Thermopolitics of Data). In Beregow, E., Braun, V., Lemke, T. (2024) Critical Temperature Studies. Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus. The envisioned publication date is 1 October and the texts will all be open access.
Mollen, Anne and Keilbach, Judith and Brodie, Patrick and Jancovic, Marek and Helmond, Anne and Crosera, Arianna and Velkova, Julia and Ochner, Valentina and Maxigas, Maxigas and Jansen, Fieke (2024) Governing Digital Infrastructures for a Secure and Sustainable Future
Velkova J, Rohracher H, Sefyrin J, Mary Bartlett F (2024) Silicon Valley utnyttjar Sverige som ett lågprisland. Dagens Nyheter, Debattartikel. 25 April 2024 https://www.dn.se/debatt/silicon-valley-utnyttjar-sverige-som-ett-lagprisland
Velkova J (2024) Dismantling Public Values, One Data Center at the Time NordMedia Network. https://nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/dismantling-public-values-one-data-center-at-the-time/
Velkova J & Plantin JC (2023) Data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media: An introduction New Media & Society 25(2).
Velkova J (2023) Retrofitting and Ruining: Bunkered Data Centers In and Out of Time. New Media & Society 25(2).
Mayer V & Velkova J (2023) This site is a dead end? Employment uncertainties and labor in data centers,The Information Society, 39:2, 112-122.
Parks L, Velkova J and De Rider S (2023) Introduction. In: Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, Sander de Ridder (Eds.). University of Illinois Press: Urbana
Ortar Nathalie, A.R.E. Taylor, Julia Velkova, Patrick Brodie, Alix Johnson, Clément Marquet, Andrea Pollio and Liza Cirolia (2023). Powering ‘Smart’ Futures: Data Centres and the Energy Politics of Digitalisation. In Abram Simone, Waltorp Karen, Ortar Nathalie, Pink Sarah (Eds.) Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life. De Gruyter.
Mayer V and Velkova J (2023). Placemaking, Infrastructuring & Curating: Social Mapping of Media Infrastructure Regions. In Parks L, Velkova J, de Ridder S (eds.) Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations. University of Illinois Press.
Velkova J, Magnusson D and Rohraher H (2022). Smart thermostats and the algorithmic control of thermal comfort. In Pink S, Berg M, Lupton D, Ruckenstein M (eds.) Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Automated Decision-Making. Routledge.
Brodie P & Velkova J (2021) Cloud ruins: Ericsson’s Vaudreuil-Dorion data centre and infrastructural abandonment, Information, Communication & Society, 24:6, 869-885.
Taylor A.R.E. & Velkova J (2021) Sensing Data Centres. In Klimburg-Witjes, N., Pöchhacker, N. & Bowker, G.C. Sensing In/Security. Sensors as Transnational Infrastructures. Mattering Press, Manchester.
Libertson F, Velkova J and Palm J (2021) Data Center Infrastructure and Energy Gentrification: Perspectives from Sweden. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 17(1), 152–161.
Velkova J (2021) Thermopolitics of Data: Cloud Infrastructures and Energy Futures. Cultural Studies. 35:4-5, 663-683, DOI: 1080/09502386.2021.1895243
Velkova J and Kaun A (2021) Algorithmic resistance: media practices and the politics of repair. Information, Communication & Society 24(4), 523–540.
Bolin G and Velkova J (2020) Audience-metric continuity?: The Meaning of Measurement in the Digital Everyday. Media Culture & Society.
Velkova J (2020) The Art of Guarding the Russian Cloud: Infrastructural Labour in a Yandex Data Centre in Finland. Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media.
Velkova J (2020) The Ethics of Reciprocal Communication. In: Jeppesen S and P Sartoretto (eds) Media Activist Research Ethics, Palgrave.
Velkova J (2019) Data Centres as Impermanent Infrastructures. Culture Machine, vol 18.
Kaun A and Velkova J (2019) Automated Decision-Making in Sweden. In: Spielkamp M (ed.) Automating Society. Taking Stock of Automated Decision Making in the EU. Berlin: AlgorithmWatch, pp. 125–131.
Ruckenstein M and Velkova J (2019) Automated Decision-Making in Finland. In: Spielkamp M (ed.) Automating Society. Taking Stock of Automated Decision Making in the EU. Berlin: AlgorithmWatch, pp. 55–64.
Forsler I and Velkova J (2018) Efficient Worker or Reflective Practitioner? Competing Technical Rationalities of Media Software Tools. In: Bilić P, Primorac J and Valtysson B (eds), Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction, Palgrave.
Velkova J (2017) Repairing and developing software infrastructures: The case of Morevna Project in Russia. New Media & Society.
Velkova J and Jakobsson P (2017) At the intersection of commons and market: Negotiations of value in open-sourced cultural production. International Journal of Cultural Studies 20(1): 14–30.
Velkova J (2016) Data that warms: Waste heat, infrastructural convergence and the computation traffic commodity. Big Data & Society 3 (2): 1 – 10.
Velkova J (2016) Free software beyond radical politics: negotiations of creative and craft autonomy in digital visual media production. Media and Communication 4(4).
Velkova J (2016) Open cultural production and the online gift economy: The case of Blender. First Monday 21(10).
Velkova J (2016) Ethnography of open cultural production: From participant observation to multi-sited participatory communication. In: Wildermuth N and Ngomba T (eds), Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and/for Social Change, Palgrave.
Velkova J (2016) Negotiating Creative Autonomy. Experiences of Technology in Computer-Based Visual Media Production. In: Kramp L, Carpentier N, Hepp A, et al. (eds), Politics, Civil Society and Participation, Researching and Teaching Communication, pp. 185–195.