DEGREES
2006 PhD Communication and Culture, York University, Toronto,
2000 MA International Relations and Political Theory, University of Westminster, Center for the Study of Democracy, London
1999 BA Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
EMPLOYMENT
July 2024 - Professor, Media Theory | ICCIT and Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
September 2022 - Director, Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto
Jan 2017 - Jan 2022 Director, McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
Jan 2016 - July 2024 Associate Professor, Media Theory, ICCIT and Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
2013-2015 Associate Director, Department of Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2013 - 2015 Associate Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2006 - 2013 Assistant Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK
Refereed Books (University Press)
1. Insufferable Tools: Big Tech and the Broken Machine (forthcoming Duke University Press, 2025)
2. In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, 2014*
*Cultural Studies; Media, Culture, and Society; Society and Space; Spectra; Network Cultures; Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Journal of Media and Rhetoric (video 2 review); International Journal of Communication; Cultural Studies Review; ILR Review: Work and Policy; Canadian Journal of Communication; Houston Review of Books
Winner of the 2014 National Communication Association Critical Cultural Book of the Year.
Translated into Korean and published with a new preface by LP Press in conjunction with Academy of Mobility Humanities, Seoul, 2022.
Edited Books (University Press)
Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan edited with Rianka Singh, Duke University Press, 2022. Reviewed in Leonardo Reviews; Communication Review, International Journal of Communication, Civic Tech, Canadian Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies (forthcoming).
Refereed Journal Special Issues (editor)
Many McLuhans or None at All, Canadian Journal of Communications Issue, 44.4, December 2019
Refereed Journal Articles
“Reflections on a Feminist Medium is the Message and Response to Toko Tanaka” Aoyama Journal of Cultural and Creative Studies, 23 (Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2024, p 1-11). *Published in Japanese
“Undisciplined Time Studies”. Time & Society. 2022; 31(1): 44-47.
“A Manifesto for the Broken Machine.” Camera Obscura September 2020, Vol. 35.2, 170-180
“Many McLuhans or None at All” in Canadian Journal of Communication December 2019, Vol 44.4
“Platform UnCommons” with Rianka Singh in Feminist Media Studies, April 2019, Vol 19. 2.
“Seizing Time and Ceasing Fire: Race and Mobility on the LA Gang Tour” co-authored with Armond Towns, Transfers Journal of Mobility Studies, Vol 6, Issue 1, March 2016. 26-44
“Because the Night Belongs to Lovers: Occupy and the Time of Precarity” Communication and Critical Cultural Studies Vol. 11, Nos. 1, 2014. 5-14
“Critical Time” Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, Nos. 2-3, June-September 2013. 311-318
“The Biopolitical Economy of Time” Special Issue on Autonomism and Communication: Ten Years after Empire in Journal of Communication Inquiry, Oct 2011. 439-444
“Taxicab Publics and the Production of Brown Space after 9/11”, Cultural Studies Vol. 24, No. 2 March 2010. 183-199
“The Great American Staycation and the Risk of Stillness” M/C Journal of Media and Culture 12 (1) March 2009. 12pps
“Baring Life and Lifestyle in the Non-Place” Cultural Studies, Volume 23 Issue 1, Jan 2009. 129-148
“Taxis as Media: A Temporal Materialist Reading of the Taxicab” Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation, and Culture 14.4 July 2008. 457-464
“Jean Baudrillard at the Edge of the Technological Dynamo” Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008.
Refereed Chapters in Books
“Staying Power: A Coda” In Pepita Hesselberth and Joost deBloois The Politics of Withdrawal, Rowman and Littlefield, London. 2021 (5pps)
“Time to Care Less” Appified eds by Jeremy Morris and Susan Murray, University of Michigan Press, 2018) 62-72
“Temporality” in Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray’s Keywords in Media Studies (2017 NY: UP) 194-196
“Speed Traps: Of Taxis, Truck Stops and TaskRabbits” in Societies of Speed edited by Judy Wajcman and Nigel Dodd (Oxford University Press 2017) 131-151
“Checked Baggage: An Afterword for Time and Globalization” in Time and Globalization edited by O’Brien, Susie and Tony Porter et al (Routledge: New York 2017) (5 pps)
“It Changes Space and Time: Introducing Power-Chronography” in Jeremy Packer and Steve Wiley (eds) Communication Matters: Materialities, Infrastructure, and Flows, Routledge, 2012. 65-77
“PostFeminism Galore: The Bond Girl as Weapon of Mass Consumption” (with Jeremy Packer) in Jeremy Packer’s Secret Agents: Popular Icons beyond James Bond (ed) Peter Lang: 2009. 89-110
Non-Refereed Publications
“McLuhan unter Palmen Über Orte des Denkens, Sprechens und Handelns” Sarah Sharma, Johannes Bruder and Nelly Y. Pinkrah Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft https://doi.org/10.14361/zfmw-2022-140113, April 2022,124-138
“Beyond Behaviourism and Black Boxes: The Future of Media Theory Interview with Wendy Chun, Warren Sack, and Sarah Sharma” in Megan Boler & Elizabeth Davis, Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means (Routledge 2020).
“Ghosts, Traces, Labor” A Conversation with Shelagh Keeley Traces of Labor: Shelagh Keeley, Power Plant Books 15.
“The Techno-Logics of Digital Islamophobia: A Preface” Journal of Islamophobia Studies Journal Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2021).
“The Way of the Social Injustice Warrior” (excerpted) https://journal.hkw.de/en/the-way-of-the-social-injustice-warrior/ 100 Years of Now, HKW, Berlin (2019)
“The Way of the Social Injustice Warrior” in Bernd Scherer, Olga von Schubert and Stefan Aue’s 100 Years of Now, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2019.
“I’m Not Looking for a Singular Conception of Time: An Interview with Sarah Sharma” in Mediating Time (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
“Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement”, Boston Review, June 19, 2018 http://bostonreview.net/gender-sexuality/sarah-sharma-going-work-mommys-basement
“Selfie-Care and the Uncommons” Greig de Peuter and Christine Shaw (ed) Take, Care Letters and Handshakes/Blackwood Gallery, 2018.
“Exit and the Extensions of Man” https://transmediale.de/content/exit-and-the-extensions-of-man (Transmediale Journal, 2017)
“Dear Megabyte: A letter from Mommy and Big Data” in the From Dada to Data: The Dataist Manifesto, Museum of the Moving Image (2017)
Article Reprints/Translations
“Exit and the Extensions of Man” (2017) in Come Closer the Biennale Reader, Sternberg Press (Czech translation) 2021.
“Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement” in Merve Imre Once and Future Feminist, Boston Review Forum Publications 2018.
“Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement (2018)” in Merve Imre Once and Future Feminist, Boston Review Forum Publications, Korean Translation 2020.
“Speed Traps and the Temporal” in edited Sarah Cook, 24/7 A Wake-Up Call For Our Non-Stop World Somerset House, 2019.
“Taxicab Publics and the Production of Brown Space after 9/11” in Gil Rodman The Media and Race Reader Routledge: 2014.
“Taxicab Publics and the Production of Brown Space after 9/11” in Kathleen Tiemann, Ralph B. McNeal Jr., Betsy Lucal, and Morten G. Ender. (eds.) (2010). The Intersections Collection (Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing)
Book Reviews
A review of John Tomlinson’s Culture of Speed: The Coming of Immediacy, European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 12, Number 2/May 2009.
A review of Robert Hassan’s The Chronoscopic Society: Globalization, Time and Knowledge in the Network Economy, Communication Review, Vol (8), 3, 2005.
Invited Lectures
Upcoming: June 4, 2025, Keynote for the Canadian Communication Association
1. November 30 Elsie Exhibition Opening Keynote at LOOP Alternative Art Space, Seoul, Korea.
2. November 22, 2024, A Very Bad Timekeeper, Bad Timekeepers Symposium This Is Not a Church art space Seoul Korea
3. November 11, 2024, “Digital Selfie Care” Healthy Cities, UHN Women’s Hospital https://www.womenscollegehospital.ca/healthy-cities-healthypeople-2024-exploring-digital-health-and-femtech/ 6
4. October 19, 2024 Invited talk, A Very Bad Timekeeper, Bad Timekeepers Symposium This Is Not A Church art space Seoul Korea
5. October 24, 2023 Invited Lecture “Towards a Feminist Refusal” University of Washington Faculty of Library and Information
6. October 26, 2023 Invited Salon “Mechanical Mom” University of Washington Faculty of Library and Information
7. September 28, 2023 Keynote Weizenbaum Institute100 Years, Deutsch Haus, NYU
8. September 21, Concordia University, DIGS Lab Opening Lecture, Concordia University, Montreal
9. September 22 Salon for Re-Understanding Media, Concordia University Montreal
10. June 22, 2023 Keynote for Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism, Calgary
11. April 8, 2023, Feminism, Technology and Canadian Cultural Studies, Aoyama Guikin University and the University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
12. November 25, 2022 Invited Talk “Re-Understanding Media” Political Science Department, University of Alberta
13. October 22 York University ComCult Graduate Speaker Series to discuss Re-Understanding Media, Toronto
14. October 16, 2022 AI Anarchies Opening Lecture for the Autumn School, Akademie der Künste Berlin
15. August 13, 2022 Re-Understanding Media Symposium: Panelist and book launch at Fonderie Darling, Montreal.
16. Febuary 8, 2021 University of California, San Diego Science Studies Colloquium, “Towards A Feminist Medium is the Message’
17. January 26, 2021 “A Broken Machine Workshop”. ADA-DADA Residency at SAVAC, Toronto,
18. November 18, 2020 University of Siegen, Lecture Series on Data Practices , “How to MsUnderstand Media: A Message from the Broken Machine”
19. November 9, 2020 University of Connecticut, Humanities Institute “A Feminist Medium is the Message in Three Parts”
20. March 5, 2020 “MsUnderstanding McLuhan: A Feminist Medium is the Message”, New York University, Reading McLuhan Reading Symposium
21. Feb 11, 2020 Invited Lecture/Workshop Convener, Virtual Grounds Invited Speaker Regents Park CSI, Toronto
22. December 13, 2019 Public Keynote for Exhibit “From Mommy’s Basement to Outer Space” Age of You exhibit MOCA, Toronto
23. November 15, 2019 Keynote Tuning Speculation 7 NON Conference, Array Space
24. June 7, 2019 Keynote Media and Communication Graduate Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin
25. May 14, 2019 Invited Lecture Feminist Techno-Determinism: in Communications Theory, Digital Democracy Conference, SFU, Vancouver
26. May 9, 2019 Keynote Living a Digital Life Conference, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
27. October 11-13, 2018 AOIR Plenary Keynote, Montreal
28. September 25, 2018 Annual Public Lecture Age of Anxiety Feminist Art Institute at Goethe Institute, Prague
29. April 19, 2018 The Social (In)Justice Warrior Dictionary of Now Speaker Series, Hause der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
30. April 6, 2018 “A Mommy’s Basement Theory of Media” English/Media Studies Speaker Series Invited Lecture, University of Waterloo
31. Feb 12, 2018 “Exit Media and Mommy’s Basement: On Being Left to Your Own Devices”, Control Societies Speaker Series, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg, Philadelphia
32. Jan 25, 2018 “The Temporal Night” La Nuit Des Idees, Midnight Keynote Panel French Embassy of Canada/Hart House at Art Museum, University of Toronto.
33. December 2, 2017 “Coordinating Time-Space”; 1948 Techno-sphere Unbound Hause der Kulturen der Welt HKW Berlin.
34. October 12, 2017 “Games of sExit”, Keynote Re-Fig 2017 Conference, Edmonton.
35. September 30, 2017 “The Maternal Mandate and the Gig Economy”, Blackwood Gallery, Take Care series.
36. September 21, 2017 “Exit and the Mechanical Mom”, Honorific Lecture The 2017 Annual Carleton Communication Department Attalah Lecture Carleton University.
37. August 11, 2017 “In the Meantime No Exit”, Planetary Futures Lecture Milleux, Concordia
38. March 23, 2017 “Exit Media” Media Studies Speaker Series Cornell University
39. Jan 31, 2017 “Exit and the Extensions of Man” Keynote The Annual Transmediale’s Marshall McLuhan Lecture at the Canadian Embassy Berlin
40. September 16-18, 2016 “An Inventory of Exits” Invited Talk Blackwood Gallery’s Choreographic Edition, University of Toronto Mississauga
41. June 3-4, 2016 Keynote ”Do not Enter, This is not an Exit: Sexodus and the Gig Economy” Digital Bauhaus Summit, Weimar Germany
42. March 11/12, 2016 Invited Speaker “The Accoutrements of Time”, Hardwired Temporalities, McGill University, Montreal
43. November 16, 2015 “Ambivalent Exits”, Ambivalence Symposium, USC Annenberg
44. November 6, 2015 Keynote Feminism Here and Now Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill “sExit Strategies: Between Exodus and the Politics of Care”
45. May 15, 2015 Societies of Speed Workshop, London School of Economics “Of Taxis and TaskRabbits: Speed Traps and the Labour of Care”
46. November 22, 2014 My Creativity Sweatshop 2.0, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam My Creativity, Your Depression: “Creativity, Feminism, Serendipity”
47. October 7, 2014 Book Talk for In the Meantime at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
48. September 22, 2014, The 2014 Social Thought Lecture, Pennsylvania State University, “How to Do Time: A Temporal Politics”
49. June 9, 2014 North Carolina Governor’s School East “Plugging Into the Hive Mind: Collaboration and Privacy in the Digital Age”
50. May 28-30, 2014 Keynote, Temporal Design Workshop at the University of Edinburgh School of Art and Department of Informatics
51. May 12, 2014 Durham County, North Carolina Public Library Humanities Series In the Meantime Book Talk
52. April 30-May 1, 2014, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Northwestern University, “Hot off the Press” Event for In the Meantime
53. April 24-26, 2014 “Rethinking Globalization and Questions of Scale,” North Carolina State University, “The Wait of the World: A Critical Temporality.”
54. April 19, 2014 Bluestockings Bookstore, Invited Reading for In the Meantime, New York City
55. April 18, 2014 “Social Media/Psychosocial Wellbeing Symposium,” Rutgers University, Invited Talk: “E-Wasting Time in an Economy of Useless Pursuits.”
56. April 10, 2014 “University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication Colloquium,” Book Talk for In the Meantime
57. March 21-22, 2014 “ASPECT Conference,” Virginia-Tech University Keynote “The Inhabitants of Time”
58. February 28, 2014 The Regulator Bookshop Durham, NC, Invited Book Talk for In the Meantime
59. September 21-22, 2013 Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University “Time and Globalization Working Group.”
60. Feb 8, 2013 Geography Symposium, UNC-Chapel Hill “Time, Precarity and the Nights of Occupy”
61. April 27, 2012, Intersections: Occupations, York University Keynote “Because the Night Belongs to Lovers: Occupy in the Time of Precarity.”
62. September 25, 2009, “Materializing Communication and Rhetoric: Technologies, Infrastructures, and Flows,” North Carolina State University, “It Changes Space and Time! Introducing Power-Chronography: A new theory for the times.”
63. October 28, 2008 NC Energy Symposium Energy and Social Innovation Invited Panelist “The Slow Life: The Politics of Sustainable Time.”
64. November 16, 2007 University of Chicago Mass Culture Working Group “Taxis as Media.”
65. December 14, 2006 North Carolina State University Department of Communication Colloquium, “Slow Lifers@home in a world of Speed.”
Refereed Conference Presentations
“No No, Alexa, Let me Do that” Artificial Unintelligence Panel at SLSA Out of Mind Conference, Toronto November 2018.
“The Powered Up Medium” Media Philosophy Division, International Communication Association, San Diego May 24-29, 2017.
“Sexodus and Refusal: The problem with male disposability”, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Sydney December 2016.
Panel Organizer/Chair: Powered up Medium, Toronto School Conference, UofT October 14-16
Respondent: Future Imaginaries and the Temporality of the Immediate, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, 2012
Presenter: The Remote Assistant: Laboring in the Temporal Order, National Communication Association, New Orleans, 2011
Presenter: Recalibration at the Corporation: Dharma at the Desk, National Communication Association, San Francisco, 2010
Presenter: Jet Lagged Bodies and the Labor of Being in Time and Panel Chair: Mediating Affective Labor National Communication Association, San Diego, November 21-24, 2008
Presenter: Mobile Interrogations of Brown: Taxi Cab Conjunctures Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Kingston, Jamaica July 2-9, 2008
Roundtable Participant Women and Access November 15-18, 2007 National Communication Association, Chicago
Roundtable Participant on Reconstructing the Popular November 15-18, 2007 National Communication Association, Chicago
Presenter: Medium, Messages, and the Taxi: Enacting a Public on the Road November 16-19, 2006 National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas
Roundtable Participant: Technologies of Transport and Communication October 26-29, 2006 Flow Conference in Television: Television and Media Studies Conference, Austin, Texas
Presenter: Communication and Time: Citing Irreconcilable Differences and their Biopolitical Future International Communications Association, Dresden, Germany, June 20-23, 2006
Presenter: Strategies of Slowness: Between a Communicative Ideal and a Productive Body International Communications Association, Dresden, Germany, June 20-23, 2006
Presenter: The Best Western: Dirty Pretty Things in the Terminal International Communication Association, New York City May 26-30, 2005
Presenter: Slowly Crashing Fast: A Political Intervention in the Stories of Speed The Dromocratic Condition: Contemporary Cultures of Acceleration, University of Newcastle, England March 12-13,2005
Presenter: The Rhythm of the Political in the Space of Speed, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign June 25-28, 2004
Presenter: The ‘Non-Place” and the Everyday: Moving Beyond the Theoretical Spectacle Intersections: Bridging Boundaries in Contemporary Thought in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto March 13-14, 2003
Media Engagements/Podcasts/News
On Luddites: 45 minute podcast for Theorizing the Web, September 2022 (release)
Everything all at Once Ideas on CBC Radio https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/everything-at-once-how-the-pandemic-plays-havoc-with-our-sense-of-time-1.5880649
CBC News Network Sunday Morning Conversations March-June 2021
Episode 494: The Spark Guide to Civilization: Attention https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-55-spark/clip/15815130-494-the-spark-guide-civilization-part-four-attention December 2020
2014 February 25 WUNC The State of Things Radio Interview http://wunc.org/post/do-taxi-drivers-experience-time-differently-business-travelers-or-yoga-instructors
Research Awards
2023 UTM Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award
2017-2023 Dean’s Excellence/Merit award UTM
2014 Book of the Year Award in the Critical Cultural Division of the
NCA
2009 Junior Faculty Development Grant $7500
2009 Spring Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellow Semester Leave
2007 Summer Spray-Randleigh Fellowship $15, 000
2005-2006 Ontario Graduate Scholarship Recipient $15, 000
List of Courses Taught (Past 5 years)
I have developed and designed each of these courses for ICCIT or the Faculty of Information
CCT 340 Gender, Technology and Culture
INF 2198 Readings in Feminist Technology
INF 3010 Power, Media, Technology
CCT 405: Special Topics Advanced Seminar in Surveillance and Race
CCT 414: Special Topics: Technologies of Space and Time
CCT 414: Special Topics: Technology and Gender
CCT 200: Intercultural Communication
Advising, University of Toronto PhD Advisees (current)
1. lee wilkins (Faculty of Information)
2. Upasana Bhattacharjee (Faculty of Information)
3. Seung-Woo Baek (Faculty of Information)
PhD Committee Membership at University of Toronto
1. Lindsay Leblanc (WGSI)
2. Omer Hacker (Religion)
3. Jul Parke (FOI)
4. Hannah Brown (Music)
5. Hiu Fung Chung (FOI)
PhD Committee Membership completed at University of Toronto
1. Nelanthi Hewa
2. Alex Ross
Completed PhD Advisees, University of Toronto
1. Rianka Singh “Platform Feminism and the Spatial Logics of Protest” (2020) Assistant Professor, York University.
2. Nazli Akhtari “Diasporic Constellations: Performing on the Periphery of the Archive” (Drama/Performance Studies) Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo.
3. Réka Gál “Unearthing Care” (2024) Postdoctoral Researcher and feminist technoscience scholar at the Department of Science, Technology and Society
Completed PhD Advisees University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
4.. Calum Matheson “Desired Ground Zeroes: Nuclear Imagination and the Death Drive” April 2015 Assistant Professor of Public Deliberation, Civic Life & Director of Debate at the University of Pittsburgh
5. Armond Towns “Riding While White": Transporting Race and the Production of Blackness” February 2015 Associate Professor, Carleton University
6. Grant Bollmer September 2011, “Disconnection Notices: Networks and Power at the Intersection of Technology, Biology, and Finance” Associate Professor North Carolina State University
7. Adam Rottinghaus, Assistant Professor of Department of Communication, Miami University of Ohio
8. Grover Wehman Brown (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Completed MA/Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
MA Grover Wehman-Brown, “Home is Where You Park It: Car Dwelling and Rural Homelessness in the US” April 2011
Honors Thesis J. Daniel Elam “The History of the Futures of the Book” April 2008
Honors Thesis Katy Denault “Preoccupied with Panic: How anxiety is individualized and politicized in American media” April 2013
Completed Dissertation Committees
1. PhD Younghan Cho May 2007
2. PhD Mark Hayward January 2008
3. MA Allyson Schaffer April 2008
4. PhD David Terry May 2009
5. PhD Mark Olson May 2009
6. PhD Brian Graves April 2010
7. PhD Shelly McGinnis April 2010
8. PhD Letia Rose Frandini April 2010
9. PhD Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz September 2011
10. PhD Shayne Pepper (NCSTATE) May 2011
11. PhD Mackenzie Cato (Mass Communication and Journalism) Dec 2011 12. PhD Craig Dalton
March 2012
13. PhD Rolien Hoyng August 2012
14. PhD Alex Ingersoll April 2013
15. PhD Sindhu Zagoren April 2014 16. PhD Sarah Peterson (Romance Languages) April 2014
17. PhD Joshua Smicker April 2014
18. PhD Silia Kaplan (German) May 2014
19. PhD Carey Hardin (April 2015)
20. PhD Bryan Behrenshausen (Dec 2015)
Administrative Positions
2022-Current Director of the ICCIT, UTM
2017-2022 Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology UTSG
2013-2015 Associate Chair Communication Studies UNC-Chapel Hill, Departmental and University Service
2025- Advisory Committee on the Appointment of a VP and Principal, UTM
2024 Advisory Committee on the Appointment of VP Research and Innovation, UTM
2024 - UTM Graduate Task Force
2023- UTM Graduate Curriculum Committee
2022-current Advisory Board McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology
2020-2022 UTFA Equity Committee
2019-current Blackwood Gallery Advisory Board
2019-current Digital Humanities Network Steering Committee
2019-current WGSI Advisory Board
2019-2022 School of Cities Advisory Board
2018-2022 Curriculum/Schedule ICCIT
2018-2019 Chair Race and Technology Search
2018-2019 Advisory for Faculty of Information Dean’s Search
2018-2019 UTSC Media Studies/Digital Culture Search
2017 PTR ICCIT
2017-2018 Political Science Search Committee Dean’s Rep
2016-2017 Media and Environment Search Committee ICCIT
2013-2015 Communication Committee (Department) UNC
2012-2013 Director of Development Search Committee IAH UNC
2011-2015 Executive Committee UNC
2011-2013 Chair of Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee UNC
2009-2015 Graduate Studies Committee UNC
2010-2011 Gender and Communication Search Committee UNC
2007-2008 Technology Search Committee UNC
2006-2007 Undergraduate Studies Committee UNC Service to the Discipline
2022- Editorial Board Communication and Race
2019- Advisory, Environmental Media Lab, University of Calgary
2019- Editorial Board Cultural Studies
2019- Editorial Board Time and Society
2017- Associate Editor Communication, Culture, and Critique
2013-2016 Advisory Board University Program in Cultural Studies (Chapel Hill)
2013- Editorial Board Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
2006- 2010 Editorial Board Critical Studies in Media Communication
2008 Award Review for Critical Cultural Studies NCA
2005 ICA Reviewer for Philosophy of Communication Division
2005 Admissions Committee, Media Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
2004-2005 Curriculum Design for Guelph-Humber Bachelor in Media Studies