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Forthcoming

“Pornography Platforms” In The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media, Edited by Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty and Darshana Sreedhar Mini. Bristol, United Kingdom. Intellect Press. ISBN: 9781835952085 (in press).

“Pornhub, payment processors and CSAM: moral and algorithmic authorities in platform governance” Porn Studies. Routledge. DOI:10.1080/23268743.2025.2580673 (in press).

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Journal Articles

Porn scholars coming together: founders reflect on 10 years of the SCMS Adult Film History Scholarly Interest Group (2025) in Porn Studies.

Pornhub and Policy: Examining the Erasure of Pornography Workers in Canadian Platform Governance (2023) with Val Webber, Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick McKelvey in the Canadian Journal of Communication Policy Portal: Regulation.

Review of #NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media (2021) in Synoptique: Porn & Its Uses.

Rename and Resist Settler Colonialism: Land Acknowledgements and Twitter’s Toponymic Politics (2021) with Carrie Karsgaard and Michael Hockenhull in First Monday.

Picturing the Pipeline: Mapping Settler Colonialism on Instagram (2021) with Carrie Karsgaard in New Media and Society Special Issue: Understanding the Social in a Digital Age.

Artificial Intelligence Policy Innovations at the Canadian Federal Government (2019) with Fenwick McKelvey in the Canadian Journal of Communication: Policy Portal: Towards a Canadian Digital and Data Strategy.

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Thesis

Desire for Data: PornHub and the Platformization of a Culture Industry (2019) Concordia University.

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Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

The Algorithmic Moderation of Sexual Expression: Pornhub, payment processors and CSAM (2023) in AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

Canadian Pipeline Politics: Mapping (visual) discourse in platform spaces (2018) with Luca Bainotti, Carrie Karsgaard, Serena Del Nero, Giacomo Flaim, Michael Hockenhull, Antonio Martella, Erika Valderrama & Gabriel Valerio for the University of Amsterdam Digital Methods Initiative.

Objectionable Queries: Searching for Porn in App Stores (2018) with Christina Meyenburg, Emannuelle Blaiotta, Janna Omena, Shefali Bharati & Stephanie de Smale for the University of Amsterdam Digital Methods Initiative.

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Reports & Policy Interventions

Consultant on the ‘Guidance for Regulation of Adult Content and Enforcement’ (GRACE) 2024-2025 project formulating guidelines for theEuropean Commission on the Regulation of Adult Content Platformsunder the EU’s Digital Services Act.

Pornhub Creator Consultations Report (2023) with Val Webber for ECP Canada’s ‘What We Heard’ Project.

Integrating Sexual Expression into the Model Regulatory Framework for Platforms (2022) with Steph Hill, Hanne Stegeman, Val Webber, Zahra Stardust, Kath Albury & Carolina Are - invitees of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) for The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s proposed regulatory framework for online platforms.

Brief for the Department of Canadian Heritage Digital Citizens Initiative (2021) with Val Webber, a submission regarding proposed legislation to manage to harmful content in Canada.

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Editorials & Public Scholarship

Age-Verification Won’t Save Kids from Harm - But It Will Invade Our Privacy (2024) The Globe & Mail.

Porn, Platforms & Sex Panic (2023) YouTube.

Complex Pleasures: Selections from the Erotic Film Collection (2022) co-curated with Camille Inston. Bonham Sexual Representation Collection, University of Toronto.

Why are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter? (2022) The Walrus.

Eradicating Sexual Exploitation in Porn Should Not Be at the Expense of Sex Workers (2021) with Dr. Rebecca Sullivan & Dr. Val Webber. The Conversation.

The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn (2021) The Walrus.

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Invited Talks & Workshops

Platform Scopophilia: Data, Surveillance, and Pornhub Insights (2024) Closing keynote for the 52nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science.

Peeping Platforms: Data, surveillance & Pornhub Insights (2023) Civic Tech Toronto: HackNight Speaker Series.

Fast Forwarding Porn: Digitization and Its Discontents (2021) archival workshop with Dr. Patrick Keilty, Dr. Cait McKinney & Ferrin Evans. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto.