Research

At the Social Media Collective, I assisted Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie, and Mary Gray on their research projects. Topics included AI ethics, the politics of social media platforms, histories of voice assistants, how metrics are used in cultural industries, and the future of work. I co-authored two academic articles–one on making sense of metrics in the music industries and another on changing social dynamics in fully remote work; two conference papers, on managing boundaries while working from home and parallel chat in meetings; and a technical report synthesizing research findings about remote work during the pandemic.

Before the SMC, I worked as a research assistant to Jonathan Sterne from 2017-2019. I copy edited manuscripts, did bibliographic research for grant applications, and conducted literature reviews for Professor Sterne’s books, articles, and other projects.  I’ve worked on a project about audio mastering startups and the politics of automating musical judgment. Most of my work included reading and analyzing literature across the history of science and technology, science and technology studies, queer and disability studies, cultural studies, and critical algorithm studies, as well as more technical fields like audio engineering, machine learning, and computer science.

As an undergraduate at McGill, I worked in Ian Gold’s Neurophilosophy Lab. I helped design and run a mixed-methods experiment exploring the relationships among Internet usage, city living, social support, and discrimination as they relate to mental health. In addition to collecting quantitative data through questionnaires, I facilitated semi-structured interviews with young people about their experiences of social support and discrimination, online and offline.