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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) co-authored 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) co-authored with Carrie Karsgaard and Michael Hockenhull in First Monday
Picturing the Pipeline: Mapping Settler Colonialism on Instagram (2021) co-authored 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) co-authored with Fenwick McKelvey in theCanadian Journal of Communication: Policy Portal, Towards a Canadian Digital and Data Strategy
Journal Articles
Thesis
Desire for Data: PornHub and the Platformization of a Culture Industry (2019) Thesis supervised by Dr. Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University.
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
Conference Publications
European Commission on the regulation of adult content platforms consultant on the Guidance for Regulation of Adult Content and Enforcement (GRACE) 2024-2025 project to formulate guidelines for pornography platforms under the EU’s Digital Services Act.
Pornhub Creator Consultations Report (2023) co-authored with Val Webber for ECP Canada’s ‘What We Heard’ Project.
Integrating Sexual Expression into the Model Regulatory Framework for Platforms (2022) co-authored with Steph Hill, Hanne Stegeman, Val Webber, Zahra Stardust, Kath Albury & Carolina Are [invitees and select members of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)] forThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s proposed regulatory framework for online platforms.
Brief for the Department of Canadian Heritage Digital Citizen Initiative (2021) submission co-authored with Val Webber regarding proposed approach to harmful content in Canada.
Reports & Policy Interventions
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) co-authored with Dr. Rebecca Sullivan & Dr. Val Webber. The Conversation.
The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn (2021)The Walrus.
Faking It: Deepfake Porn and Moral Panic (2019) Pause Button[archived].
Public Scholarship
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 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.
Public Talks & Workshops