Selected Academic Writing:
Smirnov, N., & Weidler-Lewis, J. (2020). From Correspondence to Prefiguration: Mobilizing Learning Sciences for Alternative Social Futures. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. (pdf)
Smirnov, N. (2020). Learning and Teaching in the Ruins: Reassembling Innovation Debris After Grants Expire. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. (pdf)
Smirnov, N., & Lam, W.S.E. (2019). “Presenting Our Perspective”: Recontextualizing Youths’ Experiences of Hypercriminalization Through Media Production. Written Communication. 36(2), 296–344. (pdf)
Smirnov, N., Easterday, M., Gerber, E.. (2019). Infrastructuring Distributed Studio Networks: A Case Study and Design Principles. Journal of the Learning Sciences. 27(4), 580-631. (pdf)
Smirnov, N., Saiyed, G., Easterday, M., Lam, WSE. (2018). Journalism as Model for Civic and Information Literacies. Cognition and Instruction, 36(1), 1-29. (pdf)
Korobkova, K., Smirnov., N. (April 2018). Living and Dying Literacies: Metaphors of Language and Literace Emergence, Temporality and Forgetting in Practice. Paper presented at American Education Research Association Annual Meeting 2018, New York City, NY. (pdf)
Lam, WSE., Smirnov, N. (2017). Literacy and Identity in Mediated Contexts of Transnationalism and Mobility. In S. Thorne and S. May (eds). Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 9: Language, Education, and Technology. Springer. (pdf)
Ferman, B., Smirnov, N. (2016). Shifting Stereotypes and Storylines: The Personal and Political Impact of Youth Media. In Conner and SM Rosen (eds). Contemporary Youth Activism: Advancing Social Justice in the United States. Praeger. (pdf)
Smirnov, N., Ferman, B., and Cabral, N. (2015). POPPYN: A Philly Youth News Platform. In E. Gordon and P. Mihailidis (eds). Civic Media Project. (html)
Op-Eds:
Essays:
The Repeatedly Dying Russian Girl (Medium)
Soviet Atheist Fasting For God (Mixed Company)
Can TV be Polycentric? Or what it’s like to watch “The Americans” as a Russian (Mixed Company)
In a Certain Light, Wouldn’t Nuclear War Be Exciting? (Mixed Company)