Publications

A current list is also on Google Scholar and ORCID.

Refereed Publications

2026

Burton, Anthony. 2026. “The Paranoid Style in Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of Illiberalism Studies (in press).

———. 2026. “First principles and algorithmic reason in technofascism.” Navigationen 26 (2): 127–42.

——— and Esther Weltevrede. 2026. “App Time: The Dual-Layered Logic of Appification.” International Journal of Communication 20: 1780–98. https://doi.org/10.65476/bd4srf52.

Lusoli, Alberto, Anthony Glyn Burton, Esther Weltevrede, Ganaele Langlois, and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. 2026. “Beyond Verification: Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Artifices of Authenticity—Introduction.” International Journal of Communication 20: 1746–53. https://doi.org/10.65476/4xz8h189.

2023

Burton, Anthony Glyn, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Liliana Bounegru, Melody Devries, Amy Harris, hannah holtzclaw, Ioana Jucan, Alex Juhasz, D. W. Kamish, Ganaele Langlois, Jasmine Proctor, Christine Tomlinson, Roopa Vasudevan, Esther Weltevrede. 2023. Algorithmic Authenticity. meson press, Leuphana.

Burton, Anthony Glyn. 2023. “When misinformation migrates: Cross-platform posting, YouTube, and the deep vernacular web”. In Rogers, Richard ed. The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media A Cross-platform Analysis. Amsterdam University Press.

2022

—. 2022. “Blackpill Science: Involuntary Celibacy, Rational Technique, and Economic Existence under Neoliberalism.” Canadian Journal of Communications 47 (4): 676-701. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-07-25.

Elmer, Greg and Anthony G. Burton. 2022. “Rebel personalities: Canada’s far-right media.” First Monday 27 (9). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i5.12546.

2021

Burton, Anthony Glyn. 2021. "Wojak’s lament: Memetic excess and the NPC under network capitalism". Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-meme-reader-global-mutations-of-the-viral-image/.

Tuters, Marc, and Anthony G. Burton. 2021. “The Rebel Yell: On YouTube’s Burlesque Traditonalists and Their Alt-Right Audiences.” Canadian Journal of Communication 46 (4): 757-776. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2021v46n4a3937.

Jucan, Ioana B., Roopa Vasudevan, Anthony Glyn Burton, Tong Wu, and Yuguang (YG) Zhang. 2021. “Performing Left and Right.” Theatre Journal 73 (3): E-9. https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2021.0064.

Keulenaar, Emillie de, Anthony Glyn Burton, and Ivan Kisjes. 2021. “Deplatforming, Demotion and Folk Theories of Big Tech Persecution.” Fronteiras - Estudos Midiáticos 23 (2): 118–39. https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2021.232.09.

Elmer, Greg, Stephen J. Neville, Anthony Burton, and Sabrina Ward-Kimola. 2021. “Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic.” Social Media + Society 7 (3): 20563051211035356. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211035356.

2020

Elmer, Greg, Sabrina Ward-Kimola, & Anthony Glyn Burton. 2020. "Crowdfunding during COVID-19: An international comparison of online fundraising." First Monday, 25(11). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10869

Burton, Anthony Glyn and Dimitri Koehorst. 2020. "The Spread of Political Misinformation on Online Subcultural Platforms". Harvard Misinformation Review. https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/research-note-the-spread-of-political-misinformation-on-online-subcultural-platforms/.

Older

Burton, Anthony Glyn. 2019. "Being in/of the Network: The Chad Meme as Digital Subject". To Be Decided: Journal of Interdisciplinary Theory. 4 (2): 8.

—. 2016. "The Production of Society: Social Cohesion, Newspapers, and Social Media". ImagiNATIONS 4 (1): 57–70.

Book Reviews

Burton, Anthony Glyn. 2023. Book Review: Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. New Media & Society, May. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231173132.

Burton, Anthony G. 2021. Review of Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society, by Sun-ha Hong. International Journal of Communication, November 2020. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/16843/3305.

Burton, Anthony G. 2018. Review: Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture. Quill & Quire, March.

Edited Journal Volumes

Co-editor (with Wendy Chun, Ganaele Langlois, Alberto Lusoli, and Esther Weltevrede), "Beyond Verification: Mis/Disinformation and the Artifices of Authenticity." Special issue, International Journal of Communication. 2026.

Reports

Bridgman, Aengus, Mathieu Lavigne, Melissa Baker, Thomas Bergeron, Danielle Bohonos, Anthony Burton, Katharine McCoy, Mackenzie Hart, Mathieu Lavault, Rupinder Liddar, Pangying Peng, Adelina Petit-Vouriot, Christopher Ross, Phaedra de Saint-rome, Jaclyn Victor, Taylor Owen, Peter John Loewen. “Mis- and Disinformation in the 2021 Canadian Federal Election.” OSF Preprints. June 8. doi:10.31219/osf.io/ubfmx.

de Keulenaar, Emillie, Ivan Kisjes. Anthony G. Burton, Jasper van der Heide, Dieuwertje Luitse, Eleonora Cappuccio, Guilherme Appolinário, Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills, Amy Harris, Jörn Preuß. 2020. “Demoting, deplatforming and replatforming COVID-19 misinformation". Digital Methods Institute Summer School Project Report. University of Amsterdam, July 30.

Elmer, Greg, Ganaele Langlois, Marc Tuters, Melody Devries, Steven J. Neville, Anthony G. Burton & Sabrina Ward-Kimola. 2020. "Fringe Politics: The Deep Web’s Impact on the Canadian Election", Report for Digital Ecosystem, Research Project, Heritage Canada.

Burton, Anthony G., Ivana Škoro, Henri Mütschele, Myrthe Reuver, and Shenglang Qing. 2019. 'Streams of the Deep Web: Mapping Rebel Media on YouTube'. Digital Methods Institute Summer School Project Report. University of Amsterdam, July 21.

Other Publications

Burton, Anthony, and Marc Tuters. 2025. “Us vs They/Them: The Making of Trantifa.” Open Intelligence Lab, September 28. https://oilab.eu/us-vs-they-them-trantifa/.

Burton, Anthony Glyn. 2022. “Jonathan Beller – Poetry Against Calamity: Decolonial Ecography and Post-Capitalist Economic Media.” Digital Democracies Institute blog. June 28. https://digitaldemocracies.org/jonathan-beller-poetry-against-calamity-decolonial-ecography-and-post-capitalist-economic-media/.

Elmer, Greg, Anthony G. Burton, and Stephen J. Neville. 2020. “These researchers tracked down how hackers are disrupting Zoom chats.” Global News. June 15. https://globalnews.ca/news/7048850/zoom-hacking/.

Elmer, Greg, Anthony G. Burton, and Stephen J. Neville. 2020. “Zoom-Bombings Disrupt Online Events with Racist and Misogynist Attacks.” The Conversation. June 9, 2020. http://theconversation.com/zoom-bombings-disrupt-online-events-with-racist-and-misogynist-attacks-138389.

Burton, Anthony G. and Jack Wilson. Zygotian Solipsism: An Epistemic-Ontological Limit Case and Those Who Want to Live It. Raleigh, USA: Non-Press, 2019.

Hagen, Sal, Anthony Glyn Burton, Jack Wilson and Marc Tuters. 2019. 'Infinity's Abyss: An Overview of 8chan'. OILab, August 8.

Burton, Anthony Glyn. 2018. 'X. Why?'. The Outline, June 13.