Annual Canadian Communication Association Conference, June 2013 (upcoming), Victoria, BC, panel on Communication and Policing: Power, Population and Capital, Police-Technology Assemblages at UC Davis

The 9th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Vancouver, January 2013, panel on Social Media and Social Movements, Police-technology Assemblages and Social Movement Protest: Intervention and Political Decomposition

Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Copenhagen, October 2012, panel on ‘Crime, Technology and Policing’, A Police-technology Assemblage at UC Davis: Associations to Casually Pepper Spray Everything

Annual Canadian Communication Association Conference, May/June 2012, Waterloo, panel on ‘Hacking and Innovation’, Subversive Rationalization: The Case of Jailbreaking

Intersections 2011, March 2011, Toronto, panel on ‘Rhetorics of Invention, Renegotiating Interaction’, Morbid Disavowals: The Labour Ontology of the iPad

Historical Materialism, May 2010, Toronto, panel on ‘Debates in Marxist Political Economy’, Immaterial Labour: The Real and Formal Subsumption of Labour to Capital

Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy, May 2010, Ottawa, panel on ‘Class, Capital and Inequality’, Rethinking the Political Economy of the ‘Creative Class’

Presentations

Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory Monthly Speaker Series, March 2013, Vancouver, Cobblestones and Class: Territory and Technology in the Composition of Protest

Education

Ph.D. Student, Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, September 2011 – present

Committee:
Senior Supervisor: Andrew Feenberg
Supervisor: Enda Brophy
Supervisor: Richard Gruneau

M.A., Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities, September 2009 – September 2011. Thesis: The Fetishism of the iPad and its Secrets: Interrogating the Ontology of Labour in Empire

Committee:
Senior Supervisor: Myles Ruggles
Supervisor: Edward Slopek
Supervisor: Steven Bailey
Committee Member: Edward Imhotep-Jones
Dean’s Representative: Wade Rowland

B.A. (Hons), Film History, Criticism and Theory, York University, September 2004 – June 2008

Graduate Awards and Fellowships

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, Fall 2013

School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Graduate Fellowship, Summer 2013

Simon Fraser University Entrance Scholarship, Fall 2011

York University Graduate Scholarship, Winter 2010

York University Graduate Scholarship, Summer 2010

York University Graduate Scholarship, Fall 2009