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Jeff Nagy

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Department of Communication & Media Studies

Assistant Professor

Email: jsnagy@yorku.ca


Jeff Nagy is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Critical Data Studies in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. Previously, he was a DISCO Network Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he collaborated with scholars, artists, and policymakers to envision and build anti-racist and anti-ableist technological futures, also ran Search Engines, a programming series centered around the arts, emerging technology, and social justice. He is a historian of computing and AI focused on the intersections between that history with disability and psychological and psychiatric science. He holds a PhD in Communication from Stanford University. His research has appeared in Just Tech, New Media & Society, Technology & Culture, and elsewhere.

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Degrees

PhD in Communication, Stanford University
MFA in Creative Writing, University of Iowa
BA in Literature, Harvard University

Research Interests

, History of science and technology, particularly intersections between the history of computing and the behavioral sciences; history and future of computer-mediated labor, particularly emotional and gendered labor; social integration of emerging technology; politics and political economy of platforms, interfaces, and algorithms

Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall 2024 AP/CMDS3517 3.0 A Doing Bodies/Doing Technology SEMR
Fall 2024 AP/CMDS3550 3.0 A Digital Media and Culture SEMR


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2025 AP/CMDS3520 3.0 M AI, Automation, and Mediation SEMR
Winter 2025 AP/CMDS4306 3.0 M Inside Technology SEMR


Jeff Nagy is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Critical Data Studies in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. Previously, he was a DISCO Network Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he collaborated with scholars, artists, and policymakers to envision and build anti-racist and anti-ableist technological futures, also ran Search Engines, a programming series centered around the arts, emerging technology, and social justice. He is a historian of computing and AI focused on the intersections between that history with disability and psychological and psychiatric science. He holds a PhD in Communication from Stanford University. His research has appeared in Just Tech, New Media & Society, Technology & Culture, and elsewhere.

Degrees

PhD in Communication, Stanford University
MFA in Creative Writing, University of Iowa
BA in Literature, Harvard University

Research Interests

, History of science and technology, particularly intersections between the history of computing and the behavioral sciences; history and future of computer-mediated labor, particularly emotional and gendered labor; social integration of emerging technology; politics and political economy of platforms, interfaces, and algorithms


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall 2024 AP/CMDS3517 3.0 A Doing Bodies/Doing Technology SEMR
Fall 2024 AP/CMDS3550 3.0 A Digital Media and Culture SEMR


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2025 AP/CMDS3520 3.0 M AI, Automation, and Mediation SEMR
Winter 2025 AP/CMDS4306 3.0 M Inside Technology SEMR