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Dr. Shana MacDonald
O'Donovan Chair in Communication Across the Curriculum
Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor
Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
Former President of the Film Studies Association of Canada (2021-2022)
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Co-Founder and Co-Director, qCollaborative
Feminist Design Research Lab
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Degrees
PhD – Communication and Culture
York University, 2013
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MA – Cinema and Media Studies
York University, 2005
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BFA – Fine and Image Arts
Ryerson University, 2001
Dissertation Title:
“Between Frames: Feminist Experimental Media 1960-2010”
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Publications
Books
Solidarity as Method: Countering Networked Misogyny Through Collective Action. Under Contract. Co-edited anthology with Brianna Wiens. Lexington Press.
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Wiens, Brianna I., and Shana MacDonald. Under Review. Viral Feminism: Hope, Refusal, and Resisting Online Misogyny. Ohio State University Press.
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MacDonald, Shana. 2025. The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture. Ohio State University Press. https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214954.html
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Wiens, Brianna I., Shana MacDonald, Michelle MacArthur, and Milena Radzikowska (eds.). 2022. Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666913514/Stories-of-Feminist-Protest-and-Resistance-Digital-Performative-Assemblies
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Long, Paul., and Tim Wall, with Shana MacDonald (eds.). 2021. Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context 3rd ed. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Media-Studies-Texts-Production-Context/Long-Johnson-MacDonald-Bader-Wall/p/book/9781138914407
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MacDonald, Shana., Brianna I. Wiens, Michelle MacArthur, and Milena Radzikowska (eds.). 2021. Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793613790/Networked-Feminisms-Activist-Assemblies-and-Digital-Practices​​
Chapters in Books:
MacDonald, Shana. In Press. "Feminist Bricoleurs: Collage and the Everyday in the early films of Joyce Wieland and Guvnor Nelson." In Women Filmmakers in the Welfare State: Transnational Film Cultures During the Long 1970s in Canada and Sweden, edited by Maria Jansson, Mariah Larsson, Scott MacKenzie, Anna Stenport. Amsterdam University Press.
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MacDonald, Shana, Brianna I. Wiens., and Nick Ruest. In Press. "Dwelling with Feminist Media Archives in the Age of Big Data." In Networks of Change: Gender and the Making of Internet and Web History, edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards, and Janet Abbate. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2024.2431799
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MacDonald, Shana, and Brianna I. Wiens. 2025. “We Still Don’t Understand We’re at War”: Media Toxicity and Social Media Disinformation Ecologies.” In Clever Design in Critical Times: Conceptualizing the Collidocene, edited by Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker, Guillaume Englert Correa Meyer, Teresa M. Dobson, Guilherme Meyer and Cliff Shin. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/clever-design-in-critical-times-9781978790179/
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MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. 2024. "Back to the Future of Postfeminist Films: Hallmark, Netflix, and the 'New' Woman's holiday Films." In Critical Perspectives on the Hallmark Channel: Countdown to Romance, edited by Carlen Lavigne. Routledge.
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MacDonald, Shana, Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, and Brianna I. Wiens. 2023. “‘I Can(‘t) Do That’: The Multi-Mangle of Theatrical Vibrancy.” In Théâtre et Nouveaux Matérialismes, edited by Hervé Guay, Jean-Marc Larrue, and Nicole Nolette. Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
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MacDonald, Shana., Brianna I. Wiens, and Michelle MacArthur. 2023. “Assemblies of Resistance: Feminist Stories, Protest, and Dissent in the Digital Age.” In Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies, edited by Brianna I. Wiens, Michelle MacArthur, Shana MacDonald, and Milena Radzikowska. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666913514/Stories-of-Feminist-Protest-and-Resistance-Digital-Performative-Assemblies
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MacDonald, Shana. 2022. “Flipping the Script on Consent: Re-centering Young Women’s Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies.” In Screening #Times Up: Exploring Rape Culture in Hollywood Film, edited by Lisa Funnell and Ralph Beliveau. SUNY P. https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Screening-MeToo
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MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. 2022. “Feminist Memes: Digital Communities, Identity Performance, and Resistance from the Shadows.” In Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision, edited by Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/materializing-digital-futures-9781501361265/
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MacDonald, Shana., Brianna I. Wiens, Michelle MacArthur, and Milena Radzikowska (eds.). 2021. “Introduction: Feminist Takes on Networking Justice.” In Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793613790/Networked-Feminisms-Activist-Assemblies-and-Digital-Practices
Rudakoff, Judith and MacDonald, Shana. 2021. ““Vital acts of transfer”: Affective economies and embodied knowledge in #MeToo.” In Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo94635198.html​
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MacDonald, Shana. 2018. “The City (as) Place: Performative Re-mappings of Urban Space Through Artistic Research.” In Performance As Research: Knowledge, Methodology, Impact, edited by Bruce Barton, Melanie Dyer and et al. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Performance-as-Research-Knowledge-methods-impact/Arlander-Barton-Dreyer-Lude-Spatz/p/book/9781138068711
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MacDonald, Shana. 2018. “The Performative Politics of Shary Boyle’s Intermedial Projection Art.” In Sculpting Cinema, edited by Solomon Nagler and Melanie Wilmink. Pleasure Dome. https://pdome.org/publication/sculpting-cinema-ed-melanie-wilmink-solomon-nagler/
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MacDonald, Shana. 2010. “Materiality and Metaphor: Rape in Art Cinema in Anne Claire Poirier’s Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend.” In Rape in Art Cinema, edited by Dominique Russell. Continuum. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/rape-in-art-cinema-9781441109774/
Articles in Refereed Journals:
MacDonald, Shana and Brianna Wiens. In Press. "Mediating and Memorializing #MeToo: Legacy, Durability, and Politics in the Digital Archive." Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space.
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MacDonald, Shana and Andie Kaiser. In Press. "Masculine/feminine: Barbenheimer memes and 21st Century Gender Roles." Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Special Issue: “Barbenheimer Cinema.”
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MacDonald, Shana, Karmvir Padda, and Nick Ruest. 2026. Regulating Femininity in the Manosphere: An Exploration of Anti-Femme Discourse in Online Misogynistic Spaces. Journal of Femininities, Special Issue: "Digital Femininities."
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Brianna Wiens, Kate Seaborn, Nevetha Kugathas and Shana MacDonald. "Man v Bear: memetic resistence to rape culture." Feminist Encounters Special Issue "Digital Activisms and Intersectionality in Context". https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/17882
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MacDonald, Shana, Brianna Wiens, Karmvir Padda, and Nick Ruest. 2026. “'All you have to do is publicly execute a few women who have lied': Mapping the State of Online Misogyny and Feminist Digital Counterprotest in the Post-Pandemic Landscape." Women’s Studies in Communication. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1080/07491409.2025.2579089
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MacDonald, Shana and Kate Bradley. 2025. "Solidarity as method: Building stronger research coalitions to counter antagonism." Studies in Social Justice, Special Issue “From Antagonism to Care: Reimagining Academic Freedom and Justice in Higher Education” https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v19i3.5142 ​​
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MacDonald, Shana, Brianna I. Wiens and Nick Ruest. 2024. “Dwelling with Feminist Media Archives in the Age of Big Data," Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture, and Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2024.2431799
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Elizabeth Vernon-Wilson, Hussein, Rand, Tetui, Moses, Poon, Adrian, Waite, Nancy, Wiens, Brianna, MacDonald, S., and Grindrod, Kelly. 2024. Fertility concerns and COVID-19 Vaccines: Community-informed infographic design in urban Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Community Systems for Health, vol 1, No 1. https://doi.org/10.36368/jcsh.v1i1.1041
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Brianna Wiens, and Shana MacDonald. 2024. “Dwelling as Method: Lingering in/with Feminist Curated Data-Sets on Instagram,” Journal of Digital Social Research, Special Issue "Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: deconstruction, reflexivity & femmix" Vol 6, No 2. https://www.jdsr.io/vol-6-no-2-2024
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Brianna Wiens, and Shana MacDonald. 2024. “Witches in Swamps and Sirens at Sea: Feminist Figures that Haunt TechBroTopias,” Public, vol 35, no. 69. https://doi.org/10.1386/public_00190_1
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MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. 2023. “Meme-ifying Data: The Rise of Public Health Influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter during Covid-19.” Journal of Digital Social Research. https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/article/view/151
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Brianna Wiens, MacDonald, Shana, and Kadir, Aynur. 2023. Feminist Shadow Networks: “Thinking, Talking, and Making” as Praxes of Relationality and Care. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique, vol. 13, no. 3, Article Special DSCN Collection #9. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.9572
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MacDonald, Shana. 2023. “The Queer Imaginaries of Witches and Magical Beings in Feminist YA Graphic Novels,” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Special Issue: Embodying Feminist Discourse in Comics and Graphic Novels. https://maifeminism.com/the-queer-and-feminist-worlds-of-witches-and-magical-beings/​​
MacDonald, Shana. 2022. ““All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Films,” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, vol 37, no 2. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9787056
Shana MacDonald. 2021. “What do you (really) meme?: Pandemic memes as social political repositories.” Leisure Sciences, Special Issue: Leisure in the time of coronavirus. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2020.1773995
Wiens, Brianna I. and Shana MacDonald. 2021. “Feminist Futures: #MeToo’s Possibilities as Poiesis, Techné, and Pharmakon.” Feminist Media Studies, vol 21, no 7. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1770312
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Wiens, Brianna I. and Shana MacDonald. 2021. “Living Whose Best Life? An Intersectional Feminist Interrogation of Postfeminist #Solidarity in #SelfCare.” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Special Issue on #Solidarity vol 10, no 1, 219-242. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16254
Shana MacDonald. 2020. “The Aesthetic Lives of Performers: Rethinking Intermediality in the films of Yvonne Rainer and Carolee Schneemann” Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal, vol 20, no 34. https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/cinemaetcie/article/view/16170
Wiens, Brianna. I, Stan Rucker, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Milena Radzikowska, and Shana MacDonald. 2020. “Materializing Data: New Research Methods for 4 Feminist Digital Humanities.” Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, vol 10, no 1. http://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.373
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Shana MacDonald. 2019. “Refusing to Smile for the Patriarchy: Jessica Jones as Feminist Killjoy.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol 30, no 1. ISSN: 08970521/139069261
MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. 2019. “Mobilizing the ‘Multi-Mangle’: Why New Materialist Research Methods in Public Participatory Art Matter.” Leisure Sciences, Special Issue on Posthumanism, vol 41, no 5. DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2019.1627960
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MacDonald, Shana. 2018. “Reimagining Public Space in Expanded Cinema Exhibition,” Canadian Journal of Film Studies, vol 27, no 1. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjfs.27.1.2017-0012
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Shana MacDonald. 2018. “The Psychogeographies of Site-Specific Art.” Media Theory Journal, vol 2, no 1. https://hal.science/hal-01870463
Public Writing
"Feminist Futurities in Practice: Mapping Bodies, Spaces, and Possibilities." (Un)Disturbed: A Journal of Feminist Voices, vol 2, no 1. https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/un-disturbed/article/view/6696
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“Introduction.” (Un)disturbed: A Journal of Feminist Voices, co-author Brianna Wiens. 1 (1): 2024. https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/un-disturbed/issue/view/654
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“Counterspeech Workshop Final Report,” in Evaluation and Analysis Report for workshops held by Coalition of Muslim Women of Kitchener-Waterloo, co-author Brianna Wiens (March 2023).
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“Counterspeech Workshop,” in Evaluation report for Coalition of Muslim Women of Kitchener-Waterloo, co-author Brianna Wiens (June 2022).
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“Not Influencers, but Amplifiers: @aesthetic.resistance as Feminist IG Hack” in Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook, edited by Hanna Jacobs and Beth Fischer (Duke UP, 2021). https://handbook.pubpub.org/pub/case-aesthetic-resistance/release/1
“Cinema Snacks: Movie Memes as Pandemic Catharsis” SCMS+ Short Attention Span Criticism, June 2020 https://www.cmstudies.org/page/SCMSPlus
“Pop-Up and The Aesthetics of Assembly,” Canadian Theatre Review 167, Special Issue on “Choreographies of Assembly,” 2018: 75-79. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.176.013
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Invited Addresses
Canadian Publishing Symposium. “Naming what hurts: 1970s Feminist Publications and Misogyny” Banff Center for the Arts. May 12, 2026.
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Presenter. RAi UK Workshop. “AI Slop and Misogyny: Trending Video Content on Instagram and TikTok” University of Manchester. February 23, 2026.
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Presenter. RICU Knowledge Hub. “Misogyny as an Anchor and Amplifier: Gendered Pathways to Radicalization Across Digital Ecosystems.” Counter-Terrorism Office, UK Homeland Security. February 17, 2026.
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Panelist. Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics Conference. “Perseverance and Performance in Gender-based Activism.” York University, ON: April 28, 2025. Invited January 2025.
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Plenary Lecturer. Gendered Regimes of AI Symposium. “Media’s Long History of Upholding Gendered Regimes: from Cinema to AI”, Bowling Green State University, February 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2TK3cW_xc
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Panelist. Visual Methods Collective Workshop, Panel on “Gaps, Challenges, and Future Agenda for Visual Methods in Digital Cultural Studies” Salzburg, Austria: April 5, 2024 (hybrid).
Panelist. “Digital Communication and Health Information Access for Vulnerable Communities” Panel discussion. Faculty of Information Science, University of Toronto, February 2024.
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Panelist. Visual Methods for Digital Research Symposium. “Reading Memes as Media Events: The Case of Barbie.” University of Sheffield, December 14, 2023. Online. Invited August 2023.
https://wrdtp.ac.uk/events/visual-methods-for-digital-research-online-symposium/
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Panelist. Queen’s Studies in National and International Development (SNID) Series. “Contextualizing Waterloo: Gender-Based Violence and White Supremacy on Campus and Beyond.” Queen's University. October 5, 2023. Invited August 2023.
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Respondent. ECREA Visual Cultures. “Visual Politics and Protest - Current Challenges.” Panel with Dr. Jing Zeng & Dr. Stefania Vicari. October 6-7, 2022. Online.
Invited Speaker. Digital Cultures Speakers Series. "21st Century Feminist Film and Digital Visual Cultures." University of Ottawa, October 28, 2022.
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Invited Speaker. Archives Unleashed Cohort Closing Meeting. “Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist Scholar in the web archives.” Internet Archive The Permanent Library Limited, Vancouver, BC. June 2, 2022.
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Invited Speaker. Digital Humanities Lecture Series. “Data Feminism, Embodied Practices, and Internet Archives.” University of Ottawa, April 22, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5SUKLcYzug​
Panelist. Applications of Web Archive Research with the Archives Unleashed Cohort Program. “Everything Old is New Again: A Comparative Analysis of Feminist Media Tactics between the 2nd- to 4th Waves.” Internet Archive. March 16, 2022. Online. http://blog.archive.org/2022/03/21/library-as-laboratory-recap-applications-of-web-archive-research-with-the-archive-unleashed-cohort-program/
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Panelist. uXperience Design for Good Micro-Conference. “Responsible Technology and Design.” UWaterloo Stratford School, February 11-12, 2022. Online.
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Invited Speaker. The Meme Studies Network. “Feminist Media Studies Approaches to Studying Digital Activist Meme-scapes.” Center for Data, Culture, and Society, University of Edinburgh, November 15, 2021.
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Invited speaker. Games Institute Research Assistant Workshop. “Feminist Research Methodologies.” University of Waterloo. January 16, 2021.​
Featured Speaker. “COVID-19: Ask our experts - Social Media and Our Quarantine Life” Live broadcast talk with Q&A, moderated by Dean Shelia Ager, University of Waterloo, ON: May 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgUdl1V5qEk
Invited Speaker. X-Camera Speakers Series. "Feminists Do Media – The Art of Social Media Activism." Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener ON: February 2020.
“Materializing Memes” Interdisciplinary Mash-up Event, Arts Faculty, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON: February 2019.
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Invited Lecturer. “Materializing Better Futures: 11 Intersectional Feminist Design Principles in Action” with Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Shana MacDonald, The National University of Colombia, Bogota, August 13, 2019.
Public Outreach and Knowledge Mobilization
“Feminist Organizing: A Bricolage Approach.” DH Site @ UOttawa, co-facilitate half-day workshop, October 14, 2025.
“Platform Visual Misogyny.” Center for Advancing Internet Studies, Scholarly Meeting, Bochum: Germany, March 31-April 4, 2025.
“Intersectional Feminism.” University of Waterloo Women’s Center, Panel Discussion, University of Waterloo, Waterloo: ON, March 5, 2025.
“Voices Behind the Screen: Navigating Data Collected from Online Forums,” Love Data Week’s panel, University of Waterloo Library, Waterloo, Ontario, February 12, 2025.
“Imposter Syndrome in Academia.” Women in Math (WiM) / Student Association for Graduates in English (SAGE). Co-presenter with B.I. Wiens. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON: January, 2025.
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“Digital Feminist Research: Blueprinting the Past for the Present and Future.” UW Library Research Talk series. Co-present with Brianna Wiens. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON: September 2024.​
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“Intergenerational Feminist Futures” Humanities Research Institute, facilitate half-day workshops, Brock University, July 22-26, 2024.
“Feminist Think Tank: Overview and Research.” Women in Math Pizza Piazza, Faculty of Math, University of Waterloo, June 21, 2024.
“Extending the Archives to the Meme-verse: Figural Kinship of Feminist Protest Media.” DH Site @ UOttawa, Summer 2024 Workshop series, co-facilitate half-day workshop, May 8, 2024.
“Materializing the Digital: Exploring the Logic of Techno-cultures through Slow Media.” DH Site @ UOttawa, Summer 2024 Workshop series, co-facilitate half-day workshop, May 8, 2024.
“Solidarity in Action” University of Waterloo, April 18, 2024.
“DIY Activist Culture” SAGE, University of Waterloo, March 25th, 2024.
“Materializing Feminist Futures: Crafting for the Resistance” Combining Two Cultures Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Waterloo, January 2024.
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“Meme-ing the Resistance.” DH Site Summer 2023 Workshop series. Co-facilitator. University of Ottawa. May 25, 2023.
"Counterspeech Lab: Safer and Vital Communities Part III.” Co-Organizer and Co-Moderator with Brianna Wiens. Workshop Session with the Coalition of Muslim Women KW: How To Combat Online Hate for Ages 18-25. January 5-6, 2023.
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"Counterspeech Lab: Safer and Vital Communities Part II (for Teens).” Co-Organizer and Co-Moderator with Brianna Wiens. Workshop Session with the Coalition of Muslim Women KW: How To Combat Online Hate for Ages 14-17. August 23, 2022.
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"Counterspeech Lab: Safer and Vital Communities Part I (for Youth).Co-Organizer and Co-Moderator. ” Workshop Session with the Coalition of Muslim Women KW: How To Combat Online Hate. March 15, 2022.
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“Digital Activism in Practice". Networked Feminisms Speaker Series, University of Waterloo. Co-Organizer and Host. March 14, 2022.
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“Networked Identities and Communities. University of Waterloo.” Co-Organizer and Host. Networked Feminisms Speaker Series, University of Waterloo. February 16, 2022.
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"Wendy Chun––Discriminating Data." Co-Organizer. Feminist Think Tank in Collaboration with the Critical Tech Talk Series. February 10, 2022.
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“Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism.” Co-Organizer and Host. Networked Feminisms Speaker Series. University of Waterloo. January 27, 2022.
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“Feminist Think Tank Presents: Small Data vs. Big Data.” Co-Organizer and Co-Moderator. Games Institute, University of Waterloo. December 8, 2021.
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“Feminist Think Tank Presents: Everything But The Kitchen Sink.” Co-Organizer and Co-Moderator. Games Institute, University of Waterloo. November 25, 2021.
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Colouring Book: “Feminists Coloring Feminists” Vol. 2. Curator and Contributor. November 23, 2021.
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Colouring Book: “Colouring Feminist Activists” Vol. 1. Curator and Contributor. May 2021.
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"Performances and Performatives within Digital Feminist Activism." Chair and organizer with Michelle MacArthur. Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Vancouver, BC: June 2019.​
Conference Papers
“The Personal/Political Articulation of Misogyny across Feminist Publishing in the 1970s.” Paper presentation and Panel organizer. Atlantis Conference Revolution and Resurgence: Celebrating Feminist Publishing, Halifax, NS, November 28-29, 2025. Blind Reviewed
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“Platformed Misogyny.” ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) Annual Conference, Slovenia, September 28-30, 2024.
“Solidarity as Method: Building for Stronger Research Coalitions to Counter Academic Antagonism.” Paper presentation. From Targeting in Academia to Promoting Trust and Understanding, University of Waterloo, June 27-29, 2024. Abstract accepted February 2024.
“The Feminine Urge to Resist: Memes as Joyful Refusal.” Paper presentation. RhetCan Annual Conference. Montreal, QC, June 2024. Abstract accepted February 2024.
“The Visual Pleasure of Social Media Activism(s).” Paper presentation. Film and Media Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. Montreal, QC, June 2024. Blind Reviewed
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“Activists Archiving the Internet: Social Justice Informed Approaches to Digitally Born Content.” Panel with Nick Ruest, Brianna Wiens, Shawn Walker, Mina Momeni. Shaking Up the Archive, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, June 23-25, 2023. Accepted February 2023.
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“Reconceptualizing Internet Archives: Feminist Memes as Repertoire.” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Halifax, June 9-12, 2023. Accepted February 2023.
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“Storming the TechBro-stille: Breaking Down Technology’s Exclusionary Gates.” Panel with Lai-Tze Fan, Susan Flavelle, Brianna Wiens. Canadian Communication Association. Toronto, ON, May 30-June 2, 2023. Accepted February 2023.
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“Methodological Developments and Challenges in Visual Politics and Protest.” Panelist with Dr. Radhika Gajjala, Dr. Jing Zeng & Dr. Stefania Vicari. International Communication Association annual conference, May 25-29, 2023. Toronto, Ontario. Accepted January 2023.
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“Approaches to Archiving Feminist Memes." Panel presentation. Preserving Digital Born Media by Women: methods for decolonial & feminist futures (Panel). Film and Media Studies Association of Canada annual conference, May 2023.
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“Developing multimedia tools to address concerns re COVID-19 vaccine's impact on fertility: a mixed methods approach.” Co-author with NM Waite, R Hussein, E Vernon-Wilson E, K Grindrod, M Tetui M, B Wiens. Canadian Immunization Conference [Poster], Ottawa ON, April 2023.​
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“Exploring Feminist Media Archives in the Age of Big Data” with Brianna Wiens. International Data Power Conference. Upcoming: June 21-24, 2022.
“Digital Performance Working Group” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, June 7, 2022, Online.
“Reflections and future actions.” Panel. Archives Unleashed Cohort Closing Meeting, Internet Archive The Permanent Library Limited, Vancouver, BC. June 2, 2022.
“Social Justice Oriented Critical Design Pedagogy in Urgent Times” with Aynur Kadir, Brianna Wiens, Milena Radzikowska, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Stan Ruecker. Curated Panel. DH Unbounded. Upcoming: May 2022.
“Feminist memes as media events and sites of community formations.” Digital Feminisms Panel at the Digital Americas Conference, Online, October 2021.
“Amplifying active influence: @aesthetic.resistance as feminist IG hack.” Methods, Theories, and Taking Action Through Gender and Feminisms in HCI workshop, Hanover, Germany, September 2021.
“Coming together while staying apart: Feminist Memes as a means of Community Formation during COVID.” Feminisms in the Age of Covid-19 and Beyond Confernece, Online: September 2021.
"Maybe it's basic and trendy, or maybe it's a global feminist awakening": Witch Memes as Feminist Shadow Resistance” The Witch Institute Symposium, Queen’s Univeristy. Online: August 2021.
“The Hermeneutics of Generativity” co-presented with members of the qcolloaborative (Jennifer-Roberts Smith, Brianna Wiens, Aynur Kadir). Canadian Society of Digital Humanities, Online: June 2021.
“Contemporary and Historical Feminisms: Continuities, Comparisons, and Contradictions,” Panel chair and respondent. Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Online: March 2021.
“Digital Feminist Research Hacks – Undermining Platform Capitalism on the ‘gram” Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium 2021 Conference: Social Justice and Online Activism. February 25-26, 2021. Online.
“Recovering #SelfCare for Intersectional Feminist Futures: Neoliberalism, Self-Care, and Whiteness in Hashtag Communities” co-author Brianna Wiens. Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium 2021 Conference: Social Justice and Online Activism. February 25-26, 2021. Online.
“Fostering Feminist and Queer Futures: Instagram Hacking for the Resistance,” co-author Brianna Wiens. Futures of Feminist and Queer Solidarities: Connectivity, Materiality, and Mobility in a Digitalized World International Online
Conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Sept 30-October 2, 2020. https://futuresolidarities.org/
“From memes to hashtags to stans: Film Paratexts and Contemporary Feminist Fan Cultures,” Film Studies Association of Canada, London, ON: June 2020. Conference canceled.
Media Appearances
Syndication Interviews. “Why ‘Wine Moms’ are being targeted by right-wing political commentators” with CBC News. Sudbury, Thunder Bay, London, Ontario Morning, Kitchener, Windsor. January 19, 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-104-the-morning-edition-k-w/clip/16192748-why-wine-moms-targeted-right-wing-politicians-commentators
Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “Blaming 'wine moms' for ICE protests is an old tactic with a new target” January 15, 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/renee-good-killed-wine-moms-9.7046379
Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “Dark humour or tone deafness? Breaking down Kristen Bell's domestic violence joke” CBC News, October 27, 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kristen-bell-instagram-post-9.6954663
Interview with Maryn Rice. “ What happened to casual posting?" Dalhousie Gazette, October 2nd, 2025. https://dalgazette.com/arts-culture/what-happened-to-casual-posting/
Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “Netflix's Adolescence is making parents panic about what kids do online — but should they be?” CBC News, April 1st, 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/adolescence-parents-panic-1.7497908
Interview with Monica Torres. “Surprising Reason These Wild JD Vance Memes Keep Spreading” Huffington Post, March 11, 2025. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-memes_l_67cf31bde4b0c23ef0b83510
Radio Interview (live) with Craig Norris. “Reddit’s Musk Boycott” The Morning Edition with Craig Norris, January 27, 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-104-the-morning-edition-k-w/clip/16123884-waterloo-subreddit-joins-growing-social-media-protest-x
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Interview with Aastha Shetty. “Redditors in Waterloo region join online protest against Elon Musk by blocking links to X” CBC News. January 27, 2025. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/elon-musk-reddit-protest-waterloo-1.7440980
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Television Interview with Ian Hanomansing. “Twitter Exodus” The National. November 15, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZ8f_BPrm0.
Television Interview with Petrie Hoskin. “The 4B Movement in North America.” Talk Tv. November 12, 2024.
Print Interview with Brock Wilson. “What is the 4B movement? Why some women are boycotting men after Trump’s election victory.” CBC News. November 8 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/what-is-the-4b-movement-gaining-appeal-in-the-us-1.7378025
Print Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “Harris campaigned on women's bodily freedom. What will Trump's win mean for abortion rights?” CBC News. November 6 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-win-abortion-1.7375103
Print Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “What ‘cancelling’ your dad’s vote says about the U.S election’s gender divide” CBC News. November 1 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cancelling-votes-1.7369668
Print Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “Are you very demure? How to be very mindful of the latest TikTok trend taking over the internet” CBC News. August 22, 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/demure-mindful-trend-1.7301734
Radio Syndication Interviews “Bodyshaming in the 2000s” with CBC News. Sudbury/ Thunder Bay, St. John’s, Caligary, Halifax, Edmonton, Victoria, Ottawa, Vancouver, Whitehorse, Kewlowna, Toronto, London/Windsor, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg. April 11, 2024.
Print Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “Will the new Bridget Jones movie finally shed the weight obsession?” CBC News. April 11, 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/bridget-jones-movies-fat-shaming-1.7169214
Television Interview. “Kate Middleton Viral Media Scandal” Global News TV Toronto, March 16, 2024.
Print Interview with Natalie Stechyson. “As 'where's Kate' conspiracy theories run wild, here's how the story became such a royal mess” CBC News. March 14, 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/royal-family-kate-theories-1.7143519
Video Interview. “Oscars” CHCH News, March 8, 2024.
Print Interview with Johanna Wiedner. “Social Media Sparking New Feminist Wave” The Record July 31, 2023.
Podcast Interview with Jordan Heath-Rawlings The Big Story: Canada’s Daily News Podcast, July 5, 2023.
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Op-Ed. “The stabbing attack at the University of Waterloo underscores the dangers of polarizing rhetoric about gender” co-author Alysia Kolentsis, The Conversation 1, July 2023. (17,400 reads as of October 2023) https://theconversation.com/the-stabbing-attack-at-the-university-of-waterloo-underscores-the-dangers-of-polarizing-rhetoric-about-gender-208904
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Interview with Terry Pender. “First pandemic of social media age a communications failure: Social media disinformation caused thousands of deaths” The Record. March 24, 2023. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2023/03/24/first-pandemic-of-social-media-age-a-communications-failure.html
Interview with Laura Beeson. “Influences and Audiences” Canadian Media Fund Annual Report. January 25, 2023. https://prospective2023.cmf-fmc.ca/Influences-Audiences/recommendation-engines-gone-wild
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Interview with Spencer Turcotte. “Connecting the dots: What the Rogers network outage suggests about our digital habits” ctvnews.com. July 11, 2022. https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/connecting-the-dots-what-the-rogers-network-outage-suggests-about-our-digi tal-habits-1.5983295
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Radio Interview with Alan Carter. “We need stability & direction': How lack of messaging from Ontario's top doctor hurt us in the 6th wave” 640 Toronto Radio. April 11, 2022. https://omny.fm/shows/alan-carter/we-need-stability-direction-how-lack-of-messaging
Podcast Interview with Mary Churchill. “Creating Space in Academia with Shana MacDonald” the VIEWS from Venus. December 9, 2021. https://the-view-from-venus.simplecast.com/episodes/42-creating-space-in-academia-with-shana-macdonald-geu7XMXZ
Podcast Interview. “Interview with Shana MacDonald / Feminist Think Tank and Instagram Research, Activism, and Education” Teachin’ Books. November 16, 2021. https://teachinbooks.com/