Mary L. Gray

Mary L. Gray is an American anthropologist and author. She is a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, as well as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. Along with her research, Gray teaches at Indiana University, maintaining an appointment as an Associate Professor of the Media School, with affiliations in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies.[1]

Gray at Microsoft Research in December 2015.

Education

In 1992, Gray completed a B.A. in anthropology and Native American studies at University of California, Davis. Her senior project explored the role of contemporary Alaskan Native single mothers in subsistence economies. Her advisors were David Risling and William G. Davis. In 1999, Gray earned a M.A. in anthropology from San Francisco State University. Her thesis was on queer youth narratives, the topic of her first book. Gray's advisors were John Paul De Cecco and Gilbert Herdt. She completed a Ph.D. in communication at University of California, San Diego in 2004. Gray's doctoral advisors were Susan Leigh Star and Olga Vásquez. Her dissertation was titled Coming of Age in a Digital Era: Youth Queering Technologies in Small Town, USA.[2]

Career

Gray's research looks at how technology is incorporated in our everyday lives. She also looks at how technology is accessed across the globe. Her first book, In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth, is includes stories and experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual teens and the different hardships and successes they experienced growing up. The book also takes a look at the views of these teens stemming from their varying experiences. Her second book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, explores the difficulties that the rural LGBTQ community faces living in areas where there aren't similar people to relate to. Gray looks at how these individuals take advantage of technology to broaden their knowledge and involvement in the LGBTQ community. Gray's most recent book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, takes a deep dive into the depths of the "ghosts" or, human labor force, that allow some of the internet's largest websites to run smoothly.[3] The book takes a look at big companies, like Google and Amazon, that use these "ghost workers" to do things like censor their sites while trying to pass it off like it's AI.

Selected works
  • Gray, Mary L. (1999). In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth. Haworth Press. ISBN 978-1-56023-887-4.[4]
  • Gray, Mary L. (2009). Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3220-5.[5]
  • Gray, Mary L.; Johnson, Colin R.; Gilley, Brian J., eds. (2016). Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies. NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-3077-0.[6]
  • Gray, Mary L.; Suri, Siddharth (2019). Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-1-328-56628-7.[7]
gollark: With sufficient apiomemetics, it could be substantially more efficient than bad "analog".
gollark: YOU should make superior "palaiologos digital radio" using "palaiologos compression codec™".
gollark: For what purpose?
gollark: Palaiologos is MODULATING AMPLITUDE?!
gollark: And barometric pressure, but really, there's nothing to worry about there. It's all documented in the PotatOS privacy policy (generalized).

References
  1. "Mary L. Gray at Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  2. "Curriculum Vitae". Indiana University. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  3. "Ghost Work". Ghost Work. 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  4. Reviews of In Your Face:
    • Leslie, Rodger (June 1999). "Review". The Booklist. Booklist Publications. 95 (19): 1805. ISSN 0006-7385.
    • "Review". Reference and Research Book News. Ringgold Inc. 15 (4). November 2000. ISSN 0887-3763.
    • Anonymous (April 2001). "Review". SIECUS Report. Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. 29 (4): 12–14. ISSN 0091-3995.
  5. Reviews of Out in the Country:
  6. Reviews of Queering the Countryside:
    • "Review". The American Historical Review. 121 (3): 1055.4–1055. June 2016. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.3.1055c. ISSN 0002-8762.
    • "Review". ProtoView. Ringgold Inc. 3 (12). March 2016. ISSN 2372-3424.
    • Roberta, Jean (September 2016). "Review". The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. 23 (5): 43. ISSN 1532-1118.
    • Hickey, A. (October 2016). "Review". Choice. 54 (2): 299. ISSN 0009-4978.
    • "Review". Journal of American History. 103 (3): 730–730. December 2016. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw350. ISSN 0021-8723.
    • Stewart, Amanda A. (June 2017). "Review". Rural Sociology. 82 (2): 368–371. doi:10.1111/ruso.12172.
    • Kumer, Peter (2017). "Review". Teorija in Praksa (in Slovenian). University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences. 54 (2): 416–418. ISSN 0040-3598.
    • Vainker, Ellie (Winter 2017). "Review". Great Plains Quarterly. 37 (1): 57–62. doi:10.1353/gpq.2017.0003. ISSN 2333-5092.
    • Collins, Brooke G. (December 2017). "Review". Sex Roles. 77 (11–12): 829–830. doi:10.1007/s11199-017-0789-0. ISSN 0360-0025.
    • Hawkins, Blake (January 2018). "Review". Journal of Homosexuality. 65 (2): 259–261. doi:10.1080/00918369.2017.1333812. ISSN 0091-8369.
    • Sanchez, Laura; Sweetman, Miranda K. (January 2019). "Review". Teaching Sociology. 47 (1): 74–77. doi:10.1177/0092055X18814435. ISSN 0092-055X.
  7. Reviews of Ghost Work:
    • "Review". Publisher's Weekly. PWxyz, LLC. 266 (8). February 2019. ISSN 0000-0019.
    • "Review". ProtoView. Ringgold Inc. 2019 (26). June 2019. ISSN 2372-3424.
    • Shestakofsky, Benjamin (October 2019). "Review". ILR Review. 72 (5): 1283–1285. doi:10.1177/0019793919864564. ISSN 0019-7939.
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