McGill University, Max Bell School of Public Policy
Fall 2025

This course explores how the evolution and design of our digital media ecosystem shapes democratic societies and presents unique policy challenges to governments. We track the evolution of the digital media landscape from the early internet to our current information ecosystem, and seek to better understand the structures, norms, and incentives that make up our digital public sphere.

University of Calgary, Dept. of Communications
Winter 2024

This course examines the mutual entanglements of media, communication, and environment, with a particular focus on media representations of environment and environmental risks. It also explores environmental issues related to communications technologies and global communications infrastructures and pays attention to media, communication, and knowledge practices concerning environmental controversies.

McGill University, Faculty of Law
Summer 2023 & 2024

This course explores the role of corporations in shaping democratic life in the age of digitalization and artificial intelligence, focusing on how data-driven technologies have transformed public discourse, power structures, and civic trust. Through interdisciplinary inquiry, students examine the political, economic, and ethical challenges posed by platform capitalism, and consider institutional reforms needed to sustain democracy in the digital era.

McGill University, Dept. of Communications
Fall 2022

This course explores how AI contributes to or alleviates existing social and political tensions surrounding capital, race, gender, and colonialism; how biases and issues of ownership shape technological conditions; how AI and its computational analogs contribute to the climate crisis and other environmental issues; and how AI regulation figures within current approaches to tech governance.