selected writing


peer reviewed

2021 A crisis of data? Transparency practices and infrastructures of value in data broker platforms. Matthew Zook and Ian Spangler. The Annals of the American Association of Geographers 113.1: 110-128.
2020 Hidden value in the platform's platform: Airbnb and the un-homing spatialities of emotional labor. Ian Spangler. Transactions of the Institute of British Geograhers 45: 575-588.
2020 What seeps through the pores. Ian Spangler. you are here: a journal of creative geographies 22: 6-13.
2016 Searching for the Enslaved in the 'Cradle of Democracy': Virginia's James River Plantations and the Reproduction of Local Social Memories. Meredith Stone, Ian Spangler, Xavier Griffin, and Stephen Hanna. Southeastern Geographer 56.2: 203-222.
2018 Airbnb and the Costs of Emotional Labor in Havana, Cuba. David Nemer, Ian Spangler, and Michaelanne Dye. 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 245-248.

public scholarship

2021 Howdy, Realtors!. Ian Spangler. Leventhal Map & Education Center n.p.
2023 Lexington, Kentucky. Ian Spangler. Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America 113.1: 110-128.

creative nonfiction

2021 Red Wine Vinegar. Ian Spangler. Southern Humanities Review 54.2: 45-65.
2015 Distortion: or, Nothing is where you think it is. Ian Spangler. Blotterature Literary Magazine 2.2: 4-14.