BIO

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. 
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RESEARCH

Alexis-Carlota Cochrane’s research analyzes the intersection of data, platforms and power. Currently, her dissertation research is exploring subversive data encryption methods and obfuscation strategies that resist and disrupt surveillance and censorship, particularly as deployed by marginalized communities navigating oppressive technological systems. 

Her research topics of interest include Critical Data Studies, Platform Studies, Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV), Digital and Data Activism and Feminist and Queer Theory.

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Here are a few (peer-reviewed) things Alexis-Carlota has written:

“Networked Togetherness, I guess¯\_(ツ)_/¯: Subverting the Academic Zoom Chat through the Subcultural Collective (2024). with Theresa N. Kenney. In Performance, Precarity, and the Logic of Zoom, Bloomsbury Press. 

Constellations of Community, Care, and Knowledge: A Collection of Vignettes from Pandemic Times (2023). with Theresa N. Kenney, Emily Goodwin, Linzey Corridon, Maddie Brockbank, and Sarah Paust. Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH).

Discourses on Cybersecurity. The Politics of the Data Breach as a Security Practice (2022). with Andrea Zeffiro, Gil Niessen, Clementine Oberst, Sam McEwan and Joshua Durand. Rivista di Digital Politics.

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Here are Alexis-Carlota’s research affiliations:

Critical Data Studio
DISCO Network
Digital Feminist Network of Canada
Centre for Latinx Digital Media
Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory

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