Media Researcher,
Designer & Educator
Currently—I am an Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at the University of Amsterdam's Media Studies Department. I am also the Principal Investigator of the Wikimedia Foundation funded project Slow Editing Towards Equity. And, I also maintain the index Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information.
Recently—I published the articles Consensus techniques in Internet Policy Review, The Wikipedia Imaginaire in Internet Histories, and a chapter on the design philosophy of frictionlessness with Jakko Kemper in De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures.
Years ago—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.