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Rev. Dr. Kathleen (Katie) M. Cumiskey, Professor of Psychology at the College of Staten Island & the CUNY Graduate Center (PhD, Critical Social-Personality Psychology), is known for her research on mobile media and the evolving relationship between emerging technology and profound human experiences. She is the Co-I on an NSF award leveraging blockchain technology to enhance student retention. A founding member of the Public Interest Technology University Network, Dr. Cumiskey is the director of the CUNY PIT Lab.
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BOOKS
Cumiskey, K. M. & Hjorth, L. (2017). Haunted Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
EDITED VOLUMES
Cumiskey, K. M. & Hjorth, L. (2013). Mobile Media Practices, Presence and Politics: The Challenge of Being Seamlessly Mobile. London, UK: Routledge.
REFEREED ARTICLES
Cumiskey, K. M., & Humphreys, L. (2023). Social, seamless, just, and open: Advancing mobile communication research. New Media & Society, 25(4), 833–848. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231158642
Cumiskey, K.M. & Hjorth, L. (2019).”I wish they could have answered their phones”: Mobile communication in mass shootings. Death Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1541940
Hjorth, L. & Cumiskey, K. M. (2018). Mobiles facing death: Affective witnessing and the intimate companionship of devices. Cultural Studies Review Special Issue: The Ethics of Troubled Images, 24(2), 166-180. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v24i2.6079
Cumiskey, K. M. & Brewster, K. (2012). ‘Mobile Phones or Pepper Spray’: Mobile intimacy imagined as a weapon of self-defense for women. Feminist Media Studies, 12(4), 590-599.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2010). ‘Simply leaving my house would be even scarier’: How mobile phones affect women’s perception of safety and experiences of public places. Media Asia, 37(4), 205-214.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2007). Mobile fantasies on film: Gathering metaphoric evidence of mobile symbiosis and the mobile imaginary. Psychnology Journal, 5(1), 83-99. Retrieved May 8, 2007, from www.psychnology.org.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Hjorth, L. & Cumiskey K.M. (2021). The mobile witness. Mobile media affective witnessing during disasters. In Hoondert, M., Post, P., Klomp, M., Barnard, M. (Eds.). Handbook of Disaster Ritual. Leuven: Peeters. 621-634.
Cumiskey, K.M. (2020). Children, Death and Digital Media. In Green, L., Holloway, D., Stevenson, K., Leaver, T. & Haddon, L. (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children. New York: Routledge. 480-488.
Cumiskey, K.M. (2020). Death and the Mobile. In Ling, R., Fortunati, L., Goggin, G., Lim S. & Li, Y. (Eds). The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 200-214.
Hjorth, L. & Cumiskey, K. M. (2019). Selfie eulogies: The posthumous affect of the camera phone. In Kohn, T., Gibbs, M. Nansen, B. and van Ryn, L. Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured. London: Palgrave Macmillan,
Hjorth, L. & Cumiskey, K. M. (2018). Affective mobile spectres: Understanding the lives of mobile media images of the dead. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.). A Networked Self: Platforms, Stories, Connections. New York, NY: Routledge. 12 pages.
Brewster, K. & Cumiskey, K. M. (2017). Missing girls’ voices in residential facilities. In C. Datchi & J. Ancis (Eds.). Gender, Psychology and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System. New York, NY: NYU Press. 151-176.
Cumiskey, K. M. & Ling, R. (2015). The social psychology of mobile technology. In S. S. Sundar (Ed.). The Handbook of Psychology of Communication Technology. UK:Wiley-Blackwell. 228 – 246.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2014). The use of mobile media and the struggle for women’s empowerment. In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media. New York: Routledge. 365 – 374.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2011). Mobile symbiosis: A precursor to public risk-taking behavior? In R. Ling & S. Campbell (Eds.) The Mobile Communication Research Series: Volume II, Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publications. 17-36.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2009). Sentidos ocultos: Comprendiendo el impacto psico-social del uso del teléfono móvil a través de la narración de historias (Hidden Meanings: Understanding the social-psychological impact of public mobile phone use through storytelling). In J. M. Aguado & I. J. Martínez (Eds.). Sociedad Movil: Tecnologia, Identidad y Cultura (Mobile Society: Technology, Identity and Culture). Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2008). “Do you want to have a beer over the phone?” Capturing metaphoric evidence of mobile symbiosis and the mobile imaginary on film. In M. Hartmann, P. Rössler & J. Höflich (Eds.) After the Mobile Phone? Social Changes and the Development of Mobile Communication. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 17-34.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2005). “Surprisingly, nobody tried to caution her”: Perceptions of intentionality and the role of social responsibility in the public use of mobile phones. In Rich Ling and Ped Pedersen (Eds.), Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere. Surrey, UK: Springer-Verlag, 225-236.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2005). “Can you hear me now?”: Paradoxes of techno-intimacy resulting from the use of mobile communication technology in public. In Kristof Nyiri (Ed.). The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: A Sense of Place. Vienna: Passagen-Verlag, 91-98.
PIT-UN: CUNY Pipelines and Pop-Ups: Generating Pathways into Careers in Public Interest Technology. (2024 – 2026, Lead PI, with Effie MacLachlan (CUNY) and Noel Hidalgo and Jazzy Smith (BetaNYC))
NSF: HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Using Peer-Enhanced Blockchain-based Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement and Retention. (2023 – 2026, Co-I with Dan McCloskey and Patricia Brooks)
NYC Tech Talent Project, CUNY2X: PIT@CUNY: Building the Field of Public Interest Technology through Upskilling Data Sharing and Community Tech Apprenticeships (2023-2024, Co-I with Effie MacLachlan)
NVF/PIT-UN: Building the CUNY PIT Lab. (2021 – 2023, PI)
NVF/PIT-UN: PIT-UN Convening at CUNY 2022. (2021-2022, Co-I with Effie MacLachlan)
NVF/PIT-UN: Building Public Interest Technologists through Pre-college Support Networks and Community-based, Service-learning Opportunities (2019 – 2021, PI)
Conrad N. Hilton: Fostering Growth: The Gifts They Bring from Foster Care to Higher Education. (2016, Co-I with Michelle Fine)
Affective mobile media communication, Human/AI interaction, Technology, Death & Mass Casualty Events, Equity-centered Design Strategist. Building Access to the Tech Talent Pipeline. Queer Futurist. Racial Justice & Repair Ally. AI-VR-XR Spiritualist.