Media Researcher,
Designer & Educator
Currently—I am an Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at the University of Amsterdam's Media Studies Department. And, I also maintain the index Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information. and the Critical Wikimedia Research Bibliography.
Recently— I co-authored a Manifesto for Wikimedia Research and an associated commentary in Big Data & Society called Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research. This work relates to my two other recent papers Wikipedia’s policy development and the reflection of community consensus in New Media & Society and a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013–2023) in Internet Histories. This past year, I also wrote about the design philosophy of frictionlessness with Jakko Kemper in De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures.
Years ago— I was the Principal Investigator of the Wikimedia Foundation funded project Slow Editing Towards Equity.In terms of teaching, I taught at George Brown College's School of Design and at the University of Windsor's Department of Communication, Media & Film. I also completed my doctoral dissertation in Communication & Culture at York University on the topic of Wikipedia and the political design of encyclopedic media. I also completed my masters thesis Wikipedia & Encyclopaedism under the supervision of the Canadian Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, Pierre Lévy at the University of Ottawa; worked as a graphic designer for Fifty Strategy + Creative on various branding, identity, video, and publication projects for public institutions, governments, and NGOs.