Alexis-Carlota Cochrane
alexiscarlota@mcmaster.caAlexis-Carlota studies how digital platforms produce and amplify harm through design, algorithms, and moderation systems. Her dissertation examines how users experience digital harms, navigate online risk, and envision safer platform environments. She is particularly interested in digital and AI-generated harms, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, critical data studies, platform studies, digital scholarship, and feminist and queer theory.
Alexis-Carlota has published on topics of digital harms and vulnerabilities, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, platform power and precarity, digital community care, and queer and feminist digital practices. Her research appears in venues such as Rivista di Digital Politics, Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), the Challenging Gendered Digital Harm research report, and the Supporting Survivors of Digital Harm: Findings from Hamilton, Ontario's Gender-Based Violence Sector research report. She has delivered public talks on technology-facilitated gender-based violence, data justice, and AI, and provides commentary on digital harms, online safety, and platform governance.
Alexis-Carlota’s research affiliations include both current and past roles with the DISCO Network, housed within the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan, the Centre for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University, Pulse Lab’s Social Media and Activism Research Group at McMaster University, the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory and the Digital Feminist Network of Canada (DigFemNet). She supports the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities as a liaison and steering committee member.
In 2025, Alexis-Carlota received the King Charles III Coronation Medal for her research on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence and contributions to gender justice in Canada.
She has a German Shepherd named Pisco, whom she loves very much, despite the chaos he causes.