Teaching

  • Environmental Media & Communication

    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.

  • Corporations and Democracy in the Age of AI

    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.

  • Critical Perspectives on AI & Data Justice

    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.