Conferences

2024

(Upcoming, paper accepted)
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context, online conference hosted by the University of Virginia

2023

Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Paper: “Challenging corporate power through ‘Right to Repair'”
Panel: “Ecological crises and the role of technologies: harm, violence, and the quest for accountabilities” (co-organized with Fieke Jansen, Becky Kazansky, and Jenna Ruddock)

Conference of the Union for Democratic Communication
Paper: “AI systems and the environment: challenging solutionism, creating alternatives”

Association of Internet Researchers’ (AoIR) annual conference
Paper: “Tackling the environmental footprint of digital technologies through a ‘Right to Repair’?”
Panel: “Digital Infrastructures and Environmental Justice: Policies, Practices, and Visions” (co-organized with Sophie Toupin)

“Situated Solar Relations” symposium, Concordia University (co-organizer and speaker)

Open Hardware Summit, demo table

2022

Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Paper: “What’s behind ‘green’ computing? Re-imagining and co-creating digital infrastructures”

Dialogues in Data Power conference
Paper: “Activist ecosystems vs AI ecosystems”, co-authored with Alessandra Renzi

DIY Methods conference
Zine titled “Salvaging”, co-authored and co-produced with lee wilkins

Media Rurality Colloquium, McGill University (respondent)

2021

Annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA)
Paper: “A New Northern Frontier? Renewable-powered Data Operations in Arctic Norway”

Annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Paper: “Memes, Scenes and #ELXN2019s: How Partisans Make Memes During Elections”, co-authored with Fenwick McKelvey and Scott DeJong