CDMI Co-Directors

  • Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Luka

    Assistant Professor, Arts & Media Management

    Creative networks, hubs and economy; cultural and media policy and practice; civic engagement; creative methods; digital media archives.

  • Professor

    Asian North American studies; photography studies; visual culture and communication; critical refugee studies; diaspora studies.

  • Yi (Evie) Gu

    Associate Professor and Program Director

    Politics of digital design, rural reform and digital media, socially engaged art and new media, platform and public art.

  • Rafael Grohmann

    Assistant Professor

    Platform Labour; platform cooperativism; work, data and artificial intelligence; media workers; workers’ organization

CDMI Team

  • Co-Project Manager

    Master of Information student with the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information.

  • Co-Project Manager

    Master of Information student with the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information

  • Jeff Gagnon

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at UTSC

  • Cate Alexander

    PhD Student and Research Assistant

    Digital history, cultural heritage, memory institutions, information ethics, digital humanities.

  • Elisha Lim

    CDMI Co-Project Manager

    PhD student with the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information

  • Jermaine Williams

    Product Designer

    Master of Information student with the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information

CDMI Researchers

  • Arun Jacob

    PhD Student

    Critical theory, cultural studies, digital humanities, labour studies, media archaeology.

  • Chair and Associate Professor

    Intercultural ethics in performance, theatre pedagogy, ethnography.

  • David Nieborg

    Founding Co-Lead

    App and platform studies, political economy, financial and institutional analysis.

  • Jas Rault

    Founding Co-Lead

    Digital architectures; trans- feminist and queer digital methods; aesthetics of white supremacy & settler coloniality.

  • Julian Posada

    PhD Student

    Digital labour; political economy of platforms; social computing, sociology of social networks.

  • Kenzie Burchell

    Assistant Professor

    Everyday surveillance practices; comparative and forensic journalism studies.

  • Maggie MacDonald

    PhD Student

  • Mark Campbell

    Assistant Professor

    Remix cultures; online Hip Hop archives and Afrodigital communities.

  • Marla Hlady

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair

    Expanded site; sound; technology as practice.

  • Sanaz Mazinani

    Assistant Professor

    Digital photography, circulation & consumption; visioning the self.

  • Sherry Yu

    Associate Professor

    Multiculturalism; cultural literacy; digital diaspora and diasporic media; race and ethnicity; journalism.

  • T.L. Cowan

    Founding Co-Lead

    Digital research ethics; trans- feminist and queer digital methods; digital archives of live performance; intimacies of scale; minoritized cultural economies.

  • Will Kwan

    Associate Professor, Associate Chair and Program Director

    Machine vision; surveillance; screen culture.