Speaking

I actively contribute to conferences and workshops exploring the intersections of technology, democracy, and labor, with particular emphasis on creative industries and cultural production.

Below are conferences and workshops I have participated in or organized:

Invited talks and lectures

(2025) Digital Transparency Research Excellence Cluster workshop. AI Democracy/Governance panel. University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada.

(2025) Symposium on BC’s AI Future. Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Vancouver, Canada.

(2025) Guest lecture “Artificial Creativity.” School of Computing Science. Professional Responsibility and Technical Writing, Simon Fraser University, Canada

(2024) AstraZeneca vaccine rollout – A case study. BRIDGE Research Consortium, Vancouver, Canada.

(2023) Attention: Understanding and shaping the digital media ecosystem. Canadian Digital Media Research Network, Montreal, Canada.

(2023) Social media for health and emergency preparedness in British Columbia. Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Vancouver, Canada.

(2022) Online safety roundtable. Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Surrey, Canada.

(2022) Digital ethnography: Methods for networked worlds (Blue sky workshop). 72nd ICA Conference, Paris and Virtual.

(2018) Culture and the digital economy. Civic Tech Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada.

(2015) Guest lecture “Television and convergence cultures.” School of Communication. Understanding Television, Vancouver, Canada.

(2015) Innovation in civic engagement: Analysis of an e-deliberation project. Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Bogota, Colombia.

Organized conferences and panels

(2024) Workshop: Evaluating Evaluations: Examining Best Practices for Measuring Broader Impacts of Generative AI. NeurIPS 2024. December 14, 2024. Vancouver, Canada.

(2024) Panel: Algorithmic Creativity: The Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Creative Labour. 74rd ICA Conference. June 2024. Gold Coast, Australia.

(2023) Conference: Mis/disinformation and the artifices of authenticity and authentication. 73rd ICA Pre-conference. May 24, 2023. York University, Toronto, Canada.

(2023-2025) Series: Digital Democracies Speaker Series. Digital Democracies Institute, Vancouver, Canada.

(2023) Panel: Playing against the grain: Toxicity and counterspeech in gaming. 73rd ICA Conference, Game Studies Division. Toronto, Canada.

(2023) Panel: From counterspeech to counterplay: opposing toxicity and hate in gaming. Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2023 Toronto, Ontario.

(2023) Panel: Performances of authenticity and the spread of mis/disinformation online. Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2023 Toronto, Ontario.

(2023) Symposium: Simon Fraser University – Korea University symposium. Digital Democracies Institute, 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia.

Conference presentations

“Labor and Technology” research development workshop. Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Vancouver, Canada.

(2023) Last in, first out: The creative-class diaspora during the COVID-19 pandemic. 73rd ICA Conference, Toronto, Canada.

(2023) “Smurfing is a pretty common problem”: Toward a performative conception of toxicity. DiGRA 2023 (Digital Games Research Association Conference), Sevilla, Spain.

(2023) The impact of remote work on U.S. rural regions and second-tier cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia + Virtual.

(2023) Between hope and despair: The bootstrap worker as a new professional figure. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia + Virtual.

(2023) Design thinking as an epistemic practice in media production. Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), Toronto, Ontario.

(2022) Remote work and the redrawing of the US rural imaginary during the COVID-19 pandemic. Communicative Cities Research Network Symposium, London School of Economics, London, UK.

(2022) From creative tools to platforms: the softwarization of creative working lives. Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production, University of Amsterdam+ Virtual

(2022) The creative class exodus. The impact of remote work on the rural imaginary. Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) Congress, Virtual.

(2022) Hustle harder? Reforming independent labor through occupational communities. 72nd ICA Conference, Paris and Virtual.

(2021) Design thinking and digital media production. IAMCR, Nairobi and Virtual.

(2021) Methodological figurations: Why multistability matters in the study of digitally mediated social movements. IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre and Virtual.

(2020) Blockchain Is Out of Beta:’ The social construction of blockchain in mainstream and specialized media. 70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Virtual Conference.

(2020) From praxis to knowledge: A retrospective on the diffusion of the case method pedagogy in business education. 70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Virtual Conference

(2019) Talking about business: The role of occupational communities in the democratization of labour in startup companies. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.

(2019) The role of occupational communities in Vancouver’s digital media industry. Canadian Communication Association (CCA-ACC) Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

(2019) Poster presentation: Ethnography of/in/through digital platforms: opportunities and challenges. 69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Washington, DC, USA.

(2018) Teaching business as business: the role of Harvard’s case method in the construction of the modern manager. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, ON, Canada.

(2018) The role of occupational communities in the democratization of labour in startup companies. A data-driven ethnographic approach. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, ON, Canada.

(2017) The social shaping of DTC genetic testing. Sentiment analysis of 23andMe on Twitter. International Communication Association. 67th Annual Conference, San Diego, USA.

(2015) Contextualizing technology: A study on emerging functionalities in digital artifacts. Mediacity 5, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.

(2014) ICT and emerging functionalities: analysis of an e-deliberation experiment. I Conference of the Italian STS Society, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.