Faculty & School/Dept

• Faculty of Education -

• Faculty of Graduate Studies, Education -

Courses Taught

• Digital Literacies and Social Media (GS/EDUC 5861)
• Educating for Activism (ED/EDST 4010)
• New Media Literacies and Culture (ED/EDIS 3610)
• Studies in Popular Culture (ED/EDUC 3900)
• Technological Mediations in Visual Culture (GS/EDUC 5856)

Other Research Outputs

Screening Surveillance

Screening Surveillance is a series of four short, near future, speculative fiction films that aim to raise awareness about how different inter-operating surveillance systems use our data to analyze, shape, and often disrupt our lives in profound ways. Each film highlights surveillance in a different context – education technology, social media, wearable devices, and smart cities. This award-winning interdisciplinary research-creation project was developed with the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University in Canada as knowledge mobilization and a free educational resource. The narratives for the films are grounded in empirical research and mainstream investigative journalism, in consultation and collaboration with academic and non-academic experts in the field. The films explore the complex entanglements of everyday lived realities and technology and create the space to engage with these contexts to imagine better ones. The films have been screened at conferences and film festivals, and, more importantly in classrooms all across the world as a way to engage students and communities in important conversations on the implciations of surveillance in our lives. 

The films use near future speculative fiction as an analytic lens and approach to revealing both current and near future implications of surveillance technologies, and examine how near future speculative narrative and film provide a powerful way to analyze, understand, and communicate our technological entanglements. 

There are four films in the series: 

Frames

A Model Employee

Blaxites

#tresdancing

 

Research Projects

Platforming Leisure: Navigating worker experiences of labour and leisure in the digital platform economy

Strengthening Educators' Collective Capacity to Bargain for Digital Rights through Investigating the Procurement, Adoption, and Impact of Educational Technologies

Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges in Education

York University Affiliations/Cross Appointments

• Communication & Culture
• Science & Technology Studies
• Interdisciplinary Studies