All publications are available as free links or free local PDFs, in memory of Aaron Swartz.
Latest
- Rintel, S. (2013). Video Calling in Long-Distance Relationships: The Opportunistic use of Audio/Video Distortions as a Relational Resource. The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronic de Communication (EJC/REC) Special issue on Videoconferencing in Practice: 21st Century Challenges, 23 (1&2) [Format: Local PDF of pre-publication version]
- Rintel, S. (2013). Tech-tied or tongue-tied? Technological versus social trouble in relational video calling. Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 3343-3352). DOI 10.1109/HICSS.2013.512 [Format: Local PDF of conference PDF version]
- Rintel, S. (2013). Crisis Memes: The Importance of Templatability to Internet Culture and Freedom of Expression. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 2(2): 253-271. DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.2.2.253_1 [Format: Local PDF of pre-publication version]
- Angus, D., Rintel, S. & Wiles, J. (2013). Making sense of big text: a visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis, International Journal of Social Research Methodology (Special Issue: Computational Social Science: Research Strategies, Design and Methods) 16 (3), 261-267, doi: 10.1080/13645579.2013.774186 [Format: T&F ePrint]
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Fitzgerald, R. & Rintel, S. (Forthcoming – 2013). From lifeguard to bitch: The problem of promiscuous categories in story telling via video chat by a long-distance couple. Australian Journal of Communication, 40 (2).
- Francois, A., Hebbani, A. & Rintel, S. (Forthcoming – 2013). Can University Employees be Trusted to Self-Regulate Facebook Use at Work? Media International Australia.
- Rintel, S. (2013). Video Calling in Long-Distance Relationships: The Opportunistic use of Audio/Video Distortions as a Relational Resource. The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronic de Communication (EJC/REC) (Special Issue: Videoconferencing in Practice: 21st Century Challenges.), 23 (1&2) [Format: Local PDF of pre-publication version]
- Angus, D., Rintel, S. & Wiles, J. (2013). Making sense of big text: a visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis, International Journal of Social Research Methodology (Special Issue: Computational Social Science: Research Strategies, Design and Methods) 16 (3), 261-267, doi: 10.1080/13645579.2013.774186 [Format: T&F ePrint]
- Rintel, S. (2013). Crisis Memes: The Importance of Templatability to Internet Culture and Freedom of Expression. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 2(2): 253-271. DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.2.2.253_1 [Format: Local PDF of pre-publication version]
- Pomerantz, A. & Rintel, E.S. 2004. Practices for reporting and responding to test results during medical consultations: Enacting the roles of paternalism and independent expertise. Discourse Studies, 6, (1): 9–26. DOI: 10.1177/1461445604039437 [Format: Local PDF of official version]
- Rintel, E.S., Pittam, J., & Mulholland, J. 2003. Time will tell: Ambiguous non-responses on Internet Relay Chat. The Electronic Journal of Communication, 13, (1). [Format: Official free HTML version. Alternative: Local PDF print of official HTML version.]
- Rintel, E.S., Mulholland, J., & Pittam, J. 2001. First things first: Internet Relay Chat openings. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6, (3). [Format: Official free HTML version. Alternative: Local PDF print of official HTML version.]
- McKay, S., & Rintel, E.S. 2001. Online Television Forums: Interactivity, Access, and Transactional Space. The Electronic Journal of Communication, 11, (2). [Format: Official free HTML version. Alternative: Local PDF print of official HTML version.]
- Rintel, E. S. & Pittam, J. 1997. Strangers in a strange land: Interaction management on Internet Relay Chat. Human Communication Research, 23, 507-534. [Format: Local PDF of official version.]
Peer-Reviewed Published Conference Papers
- Baharin, H., Rintel, S., & Viller, S. (Forthcoming – 2013). Rhythms of the Domestic Soundscape: Ethnomethodological Soundwalks for Phatic Technology Design. INTERACT 2013 Short paper.
- Rintel, S. (2013). Tech-tied or tongue-tied? Technological versus social trouble in relational video calling. In Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 3343-3352). DOI 10.1109/HICSS.2013.512 [Format: Local PDF of conference PDF version] (Original draft title was used at the conference: Techs, ties, and video chat: Technological trouble as a conversational resource in online relationships)
- Yang, J., Viller, S., & Rintel, S. (2012). Outsourcing: Mashing up design methods and technologies in the fashion industry. Participatory Innovation Conference (PIN-C) 2012, January 12-14, Melbourne, Australia. [Format: Local PDF of official version]
- Rintel, E. Sean. 2010. Conversational management of network trouble perturbations in personal videoconferencing. In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI ’10) (pp. 304-311). doi:10.1145/1952222.1952288 [Format: Local PDF of proceedings version]
- Rintel, S. 2007. Maximizing environmental validity: remote recording of desktop videoconferencing. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction design and usability (HCI’07) (pp. 911-920). doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_100 [Format: Local PDF of proceedings version]
Book Chapters
- Rintel, S. (forthcoming – 2015). Categories in technologised interaction: Collaboratively building a working sense of troubled mediation in video calling (provisional title). In R. Fitzgerald & W. Housley (Eds.). Membership categorization analysis: Studies of social knowledge in action. London: Sage.
- Harrison, J., Rintel, S., & Mitchell, E.K. (Forthcoming – 2013). Social Media in Australia. In C. Litang & M.H. Prosser (Eds.). Social Media in Asia. Doerzbach, Germany: Dignity Press.
- Harris, J., Theobald, M., Danby, S., Reynolds, E., Rintel, S. (2012). What’s going on here? The pedagogy of a data analysis session. Pp. 83-95 in Lee & Danby (Eds.) Reshaping doctoral education: International Approaches and Pedagogies. London: Routledge. [Format: Local PDF of first proof]
Review articles
- Rintel, S. (2012). Review of D. Crystal, Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 35, (2), 218-220. [Format: Official free PDF version. Alternative: Local PDF print of official HTML version.]
Edited Special Issues of Journals
- 2013 (Forthcoming): Rintel, S., Fitzgerald, R., and Reynolds, E. (Eds). Knowledge and Asymmetries in Action. Australian Journal of Communication, 39, (2).
- 2012: Rintel, S. (Ed). Videoconferencing in Practice: 21st Century Challenges. The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronic de Communication (EJC/REC), 23, (1-2).
- 2003: Denvir, P., & Rintel, E. S. 2003. Joke. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 6, (5).
- 2002: Mitchell, P., & Rintel, E. S. 2002. Loop. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 5 (4).
- 2000: Meakins, F., & Rintel, E. S. 2000. Chat. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 3 (4).
Professional Writing (Non-Peer Reviewed)
Trade Publications
- Ballard, S. & Rintel, S. (2012, June 28). Are undergrads really more influential than Gruen panelists? Klout thinks so. mUmBRELLA (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2011, November 2). The Evolution of Fail Pets: Strategic Whimsy and Brand Awareness in Error Messages. UX Magazine (Online).
News Publications
- Rintel, S. (2013, June 11). Nine reasons you should care about NSA’s PRISM surveillance. The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2013, June 12). Folsom PRISM Blues: Nine reasons you don’t have “nothing to hide”. Electronic Frontiers Australia (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2013, June 12). Folsom PRISM Blues: Nine reasons you don’t have “nothing to hide”. Citizens Not Suspects (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2013, June 12). Nine reasons you should care about NSA’s PRISM surveillance. The Satellite (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2013, June 12). Nine reasons you should care about NSA’s PRISM surveillance. Sunshine Coast Daily (Online). - Zhang, Y. (Rintel, S. Contributor) (2013, April 16). Baidu Eye: ‘micro-innovation’ or copying Google Glass? The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2013, April 10). ‘Slacktivism’ vs ‘snarktivism’: how do you take your online activism? The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. & Lim, C. (2012, September 21). Stalking your ex on Facebook is creepy … and bad for you. The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2012, July 28). Social media winners and losers in the Olympics opening ceremony. The Conversation (Online).
- Zhang, Y. & Rintel, S. (2012, July 20). Chinese internet censorship? Seeking the ‘truth’ on Weibo. The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2012, July 17). Meme team: Olympic fandom meets the internet. The Conversation (Online).
- Zhang, Y. & Rintel, S. (2012, June 29). No-no on Weibo: China challenges the New York Times. The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2012, June 18). Airtime’s Facebook video service gambles on the kindness of strangers. The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2012, June 21). Facebook’s funniest home video service. Technology Spectator (Online). - Rintel, S. (2012, May 31). Mindshare is still Facebook’s biggest asset. The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2012, June 1). Underestimating Facebook’s potential. Technology Spectator (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2012, May 31). Mindshare is still Facebook’s biggest asset. Leading Company (Online). - Rintel, S. (2012, May 2). Convergence Review: A bet each way on user-generated content. The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2012, April 20). Eau de MacBook Pro takes ‘unboxing porn’ to a new level. The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2012, April 21). Rintel, S. (2012, April 21). Scent of a Macbook. SBS World News Australia (Online). - Rintel, S. (2012, March 22). A new way to share – why Pinterest isn’t just another social network. The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2012, March 25). Why Pinterest isn’t just another social network. Smart Company (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2012, March 23). Pinpointing Pinterest’s secret recipe. Technology Spectator (Online). - Rintel, S. (2012, March 19). What This American Life’s retraction can teach us about the Finkelstein report. The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2011, December 8). Should we send work email to the trash? The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2011, December 9). Email’s slow death march. Technology Spectator (Online). - Rintel, S. (2011, November 4). Do privacy settings work in the age of online reputation management? The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2011, November 7). Social media’s faux privacy protection. Technology Spectator (Online). - Rintel, S. (2011, November 3). Unthink rethinks online identity – and fronts up to Facebook and Google+. The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2011, November 3). Fostering a Facebook Killer. Technology Spectator (Online). - Rintel, S. (2011, October 17). Why aren’t we using Google+? The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2011, October 18) The Big Minus for Google+. Technology Spectator (Online). - Rintel, S. (2011, August 30). Is StumbleUpon trumping Facebook in the internet attention wars? The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2011, August 31). The Greatest Social Click Catcher? Technology Spectator (Online) - Rintel, S. (2011, August 15). Obama? Norway killings? London riots? You can has a meme for that… The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2011, July 18). Are Facebook and Google+ limiting your opinions? The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2011, July 19) What’s not to ‘Like’? Technology Spectator (Online). - Rintel, S. (2011, July 12). Face to Facebook: Can video chat get over its hang-ups? The Conversation (Online).
* Syndicated as: Rintel, S. (2011, July 13) Can Facebook answer the video call? Technology Spectator (Online).
Refereed Conference Presentations (not published)
- Fitzgerald, F, & Rintel, S. (2012) From lifeguard to bitch: The problem of promiscuous categories in story telling. Australian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA) 2012. November 29-30, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
- Fitzgerald, R. & Rintel, S. 2011. “Soundbite or Interview: The Anatomy of a Category Disjuncture.” 3rd New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC3). December 5 to 7, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Rintel, E.S. 2011. “Using Humour to Manage Technological Difficulties in First Uses of Personal Videoconferencing.” Laughter and Humor in Interaction Conference, June 23-24, Emerson College, Boston MA, USA.
- Rintel, E.S. 2010. “Network trouble as an interactional resource in personal videoconferencing”. National Communication Association 96th Annual Convention, November 14-17, 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Rintel, E.S. 2010. “Constituting long-distance intimacy through practices for coping with network trouble in personal videoconferencing.” The 12th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP) June 16-19th, 2010. Brisbane, Australia.
- Rintel, E.S. 2009. “Coping with personal desktop videoconferencing bandwidth problems: Reactions, resolution outcome and continuity outcomes.” Top Student Paper in Human Communication and Technology, National Communication Association 95th Annual Convention, November 12-15, 2009, Chicago, Illinois.
- Rintel, S. 2005. “Situated Exploratory Learning of Communication Technology: Questions Prompted by a Single Case Analysis of Personal IP Videoconferencing.” 55th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. New York, NY, May.
- Pomerantz, A., & Rintel, E.S. 2002. Displaying deference while seeking information: Analysis of patients’ information seeking strategies. Top-Four paper in Language and Social Interaction Division. 88th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, November.
- Rintel, E.S., & McKay, S. 2002. “Doing Online Fandom: Engagement with and interaction within the Official Big Brother website.” Australian and New Zealand Communication Association National Conference, Gold Coast, July.
- Rintel, E.S. 2001. “The user – researcher – designer menage a trois: Lessons from ten years of research on interpersonal relationships in Internet Relay Chat.” 51st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association panel on Mediated Communication in Relationships, jointly sponsored by the Interpersonal Communication and Communication and Technology divisions. Washington DC, May.
- McKay, S., & Rintel, E.S. 2001. “‘Have a good time, make some friends, then go watch TV!’: Online television forums.” 51st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Washington DC, May.
- Rintel, E.S. 2000. “First things first: Internet Relay Chat openings.” 50th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Acapulco, June.
- Rintel, E.S., & Pittam, J. 1998. “Beliefs about Anonymity and Identity in IRC Interactions.” 4th Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. Canberra, April. Rintel, E.S., & Pittam, J. 1997. “Communicative and Non-Communicative Silence on Internet Relay Chat: Management and Function.” 47th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Montreal, May.
- Rintel, E.S., & Pittam, J. 1996. “Strangers in a Strange Land: Managing Interaction on Internet Relay Chat.” Poster presentation. 46th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Chicago, May.
- Rintel, E.S., & Pittam, J. 1996. “The Management of Silence on Internet Relay Chat.” Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Brisbane, July.