Research Areas: Critical Data Studies, Data Justice, Platform Studies, Digital Humanities, Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, Feminist and Queer Theory, Latinx Diaspora Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Zeffiro
Research Summary: Alexis-Carlota Cochrane (she/they) is a PhD Candidate (ABD) and Sessional Instructor in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where she also pursues a Graduate Diploma in Gender and Social Justice.
Her dissertation project investigates how women of colour experience disproportionate harm in digital spaces and examines the queer, resistive strategies they use to reclaim agency, foster and sustain digital counterpublics, and disrupt white-centric, heteropatriarchal technocultures.
Some of Alexis-Carlota’s research can be found in Rivista di Digital Politics, Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), and in an edited collection entitled “You’re Muted”: Performance, Precarity, and the Logic of Zoom, published by Bloomsbury.
