Publications
Books
2022. Everyday Adventures with Unruly Data. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Refereed full papers (journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters)
2020. M. Feinberg, W. Sutherland, M. Jarrahi, S. B. Nelson, and A. Rajasekar. The new reality of replicability: the role of data work in scientific research. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4 (CSCW1): Article 35 (May 2020).
2019. A. Gursoy, K. Wickett, and M. Feinberg. Understanding change in a dynamic, complex digital object: reading categories of change out of patch note documents. iConference 2019. Finalist for Lee Dirks best paper award.
2018. M. Feinberg. Wolfgang Iser and the reader as creator. In Critical Theory and Interaction Design, edited by J. Bardzell, S. Bardzell, and M. Blythe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2018. M. Feinberg. Factotem: what is information access for? Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 56(8): 665-682. (festschrift for Allyson Carlyle).
2018. D. Maron and M. Feinberg. What does it mean to adopt a metadata standard? A case study of Omeka and the Dublin Core. Journal of Documentation 74(4): 674-691.
2018. A. Gursoy, K. Wickett, and M. Feinberg. Understanding tag functions in a moderated, user-generated metadata ecosystem. Journal of Documentation 74(3): 490-508.
2017. M. Feinberg, D. Carter, J. Bullard, and A. Gursoy. Translating texture: design as integration. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems—DIS 2017.
2017. M Feinberg. A design perspective on data. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI 2017.
2017. M. Feinberg. Material vision. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2017 (CSCW 2017).
2017. M Feinberg. Reading databases: slow information interactions beyond the retrieval paradigm. Journal of Documentation 73(2), 336-356.
2016. M. Feinberg. The value of discernment: Making use of interpretive flexibility in metadata generation and aggregation. Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) conference 9, June 27-29, 2016, Uppsala, Sweden. (Also to appear in Information Research.)
2016 M. Feinberg, R. Broussard, and E. Whitworth. Framing a set: understanding the curatorial character of personal digital bibliographies. Interacting With Computers 28(1): 102-124.
2015. M. Feinberg. Genres without writers: information systems and distributed authorship. In Genre Theory in Information Studies, edited by J. Andersen. Emerald Publishing book series in Information Studies.
2014. M Feinberg, D. Carter, and J. Bullard. A story without end: writing the residual into databases. Proceedings ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2014, 385–394.
2014. M. Feinberg, D. Carter, and J. Bullard. Always somewhere, never there: using critical design to understand database interactions. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI 2014, 1941-1950. Best paper honorable mention award.
2013. M. Feinberg, J. Bullard, and D. Carter. Using design experiments to investigate conceptual issues in knowledge organization: an ongoing study. Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 18-23. (Also appears in Information Research 18(3), paper C11.)
2013. M. Feinberg Comparative appraisal: systematic assessment of expressive qualities. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2013, 115-124.
2013. M. Feinberg. Beyond digital and physical objects: the intellectual work as a concept of interest for HCI. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI 2013, 3317-3326. 3317-3326
2012. M. Feinberg. Synthetic ethos: the believability of collections at the intersection of classification and curation. The Information Society 28(5), 329–339
2012. M. Feinberg, G. Geisler, E. Whitworth, and E. Clark.Understanding personal digital collections: an interdisciplinary exploration. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2012, 200–209.
2012. M. Feinberg. Writing the experience of information retrieval: digital collection design as a form of dialogue. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI 2012, 357–366.
2012. M. Feinberg. Information studies, the humanities, and design research: interdisciplinary opportunities. Proceedings iConference 2012, 18-24.
2012. P. Brown, M. Harniss, K. Schomer, M. Feinberg, N. Cullen, and K. Johnson. Conducting systematic evidence reviews: Core concepts and lessons learned. Archives of Rehabilitation Medicine, 93(8) Supplement (August, 2012): S177-S184.
2011. M. Feinberg. How information systems communicate as documents: the concept of authorial voice. Journal of Documentation 67(6), 1015-1037. Highly commended paper 2011 (top 3 articles for this journal).
2011. M. Feinberg. Compiler to author: a process for designing rhetorically aware document collections. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62(9): 1784-1796.
2011. M. Feinberg. Personal expressive bibliography in the public space of cultural heritage institutions. Library Trends 59(3).
2011. M. Feinberg. Expressive bibliography: personal collections in public space. Knowledge Organization 38(2): 123-134.
2010. M. Feinberg. Designing collections for storytelling: purpose, pathos, and poetry. Conceptions of Library and Information Science conference, June 22-25 2010, London, UK. (Also appears as Information Research 15[3]. )
2010. M. Feinberg. Two kinds of evidence: how information systems form rhetorical arguments. Journal of Documentation 66(4): 491–512.
2009. M. Feinberg. Information system design for communication: the use of genre as a design element. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, BC, November 6-11.
2009. B. Matter, , M. Feinberg, K. Schomer, M. Harniss, P. Brown, and K. Johnson. Information needs of individuals with spinal cord injuries. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine 32(5):545–554.
2009. M. Feinberg. Ethos and the construction of a believable character for information systems. iConference 2009, February 9–11, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC.
2007. M. Feinberg. From hidden bias to responsible bias: an approach to information systems based on Haraway's situated knowledges. Conceptions of Library and Information Science conference, August 12–17 2007, Boras, Sweden. Also in Information Research 12 (4), October, 2007.
2007. M. Feinberg. Beyond retrieval: a proposal to expand the design space of classification. In Tennis, Joseph T., ed. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO) 2007, June 14–15, 2007, Toronto, Canada.
2006. M. Feinberg. An examination of authority in social classification systems. In Furner, Jonathan and Tennis, Joseph T., eds. Proceedings 17th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, November 4, 2006, Austin, TX.
2005. M. Feinberg. Expression of feminism in three classifications. In Andersen, Jack, ed. Proceedings 16th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, October 29, 2005, Charlotte, NC.
Edited Book Chapters
2011. M. Feinberg. Organization as expression: classification as digital media. In Bill Aspray and Megan Winget (eds), Digital Media. Scarecrow Press.
Juried Full Papers
M. Feinberg. (2013) Comparative appraisal of expressive artifacts. Proceedings ACM CHI Extended Abstracts 2013 (alt.chi), 1999-200.
Refereed Extended Abstracts
2010 M. Feinberg. An integrative approach to the design of knowledge organization schemes. Gnoli, C., & Mazzocchi, F. (Eds.). Paradigms and conceptual systems in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Eleventh International ISKO Conference (Rome, Italy, February 23-26, 2010). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 12. Würzburg: Ergon.
2008 M. Feinberg. Classificationist as author. Arsenault, C., & Tennis, J. T. (Eds.). (2008). Culture and identity in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Tenth International ISKO Conference (Montréal, Canada, August 5-8, 2008). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 11. Würzburg: Ergon. )
Dissertation
(2008) Classification as Communication: Properties and Design