We have exciting changes to announce for the CLCF Team! Our wonderful postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Daphne Idiz, has landed a position as an Assistant Professor in Film and Media Industries at York University. Luckily, we won’t be losing her: Daphne is stepping up to become one of CLCF’s Co-Directors! Please join us in congratulating her on this remarkable career milestone.
Stepping into her shoes (which are quite big to fill!) is our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Cate Cleo Alexander. Cate recently graduated from the Faculty of Information and is excited to continue her research with CLCF. Cate’s postdoctoral work is split partly between Dr. Rafael Grohmann at CLCF and Dr. Hadiya Roderique’s Media Equity Lab.
CLCF Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Cate Cleo Alexander is a graduate of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Cate employs a wide variety of methodologies in her research, including autoethnography, digital ethnography, media historiographies, sampling/scraping, qualitative coding,& artistic autoethnographic experiments with genAI
CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Dr. Daphne Rena Idiz (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Industries at York University. Her research investigates how media industries, cultural policy frameworks, and production cultures respond to and shape technological change, with a particular focus onstreaming and generative AI (GenAI).
CLCF Co-Director & Associate Professor
Dr. MaryElizabeth (“M.E.”) Luka is PI and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and Associate Professor, Arts & Media Management, at University of Toronto, where they examine modes and meanings of co-creative production and distribution in the digital age for arts, culture, and media.
CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Rafael Grohmann is a Co-lead and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. Rafael is the leader of the DigiLabour initiative and founding editor of the Platforms & Society journal.
Assistant Professor
Hadiya Roderique is a journalist and an Assistant Professor of Journalism in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto. Hadiya’s research focuses on race, gender, work, and inequity in journalism.
