Nielsen, Daniel and Chia, Aleena. 2026. Speculators Inside the Slop Factory: Shovelware and Financialized Game Development in Roblox. International Journal of Communication, 20, pp. 1380-1400. ISSN 1932-8036
Chia, Aleena and Neves, Joshua. 2022. The Data Pharmacy: Wearables from Sensing to Stimulation. Media Theory, 6(2), pp. 77-110. ISSN 2557-826X
Chia, Aleena. 2022. The artist and the automaton in digital game production. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 28(2), pp. 389-412. ISSN 1354-8565
Chia, Aleena and Ruffino, Paolo. 2022. Special Issue Introduction: Politicizing agency in digital play after humanism. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 28(2), pp. 309-319. ISSN 1354-8565
Chia, Aleena. 2022. The metaverse, but not the way you think: game engines and automation beyond game development. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 39(3), pp. 191-200. ISSN 1529-5036
Book
Neves, Joshua; Chia, Aleena; Paasonen, Susanna and Sundaram, Ravi. 2022. Technopharmacology. Lüneburg, Germany: Meson Press in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9783957960290
Book Section
Chia, Aleena. 2025. Photogrammetric Race-Making in the MetaHuman Creator. In: Sian Mitchell; Colin Perry; Sean Redmond and Lienors Torre, eds. The Screens of Virtual Production: What is Real? Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 174-193. ISBN 9781032730721
Chia, Aleena and Beattie, Alex. 2021. Ethics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Digital Wellbeing. In: Aleena Chia; Ana Jorge and Tero Karppi, eds. Reckoning with Social Media. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 127-146. ISBN 9781538147405
Chia, Aleena; Jorge, Ana and Karppi, Tero. 2021. Reckoning with Social Media in the Pandemic Denouement. In: Aleena Chia; Ana Jorge and Tero Karppi, eds. Reckoning with Social Media. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781538147405
Conference or Workshop Item
Chia, Aleena; Malazita, James; Young, Chris J.; Nieborg, David B.; Joseph, Daniel J. and Gantt, Matthew D.. 2023. 'The Engine Is the Message: Videogame Infrastructure and the Future of Digital Platforms'. In: AoIR2022: The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Dublin, Ireland 2 - 5 November 2022.