Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT/Faculty of Information and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology, time and labour.

In 2024 she was awarded a Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is the author In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014) which was awarded a NCA Critical Cultural Book of the Year award in 2014. Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022. Sarah’s next book, Insufferable Tools: Big Tech and the Broken Machine will be published by Duke University Press in 2025.

BOOKS

INSUFFERABLE TOOLS: BIG TECH AND THE BROKEN MACHINE
Forthcoming with Duke University Press (2025)

RE-UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: FEMINIST EXTENSIONS OF MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Advancing a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, and repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for feminist ends.

IN THE MEANTIME: TEMPORALITY AND CULTURAL POLITICS

The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it.

UPCOMING TALKS

JUNE 4, 2025
Canadian Communication Association Keynote
[George Brown College]

JUNE 24, 2025
Broken Machine Workshop for Digital Ideas
[University of Michigan]

NOVEMBER 26 & 27
Keeping the City Ticking Keynote
Funded by the Danish Research Council
[Copenhagen]