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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


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall 2026 AP/CMDS2500 3.0 A Information and Technology LECT
Fall 2026 AP/CMDS4306 3.0 A Inside Technology SEMR
Winter 2027 AP/CMDS3520 3.0 M AI, Automation, and Mediation SEMR
Winter 2027 AP/CMDS3733 3.0 M Introduction to Media History 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



Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall 2026 AP/CMDS2500 3.0 A Information and Technology LECT
Fall 2026 AP/CMDS4306 3.0 A Inside Technology SEMR
Winter 2027 AP/CMDS3520 3.0 M AI, Automation, and Mediation SEMR
Winter 2027 AP/CMDS3733 3.0 M Introduction to Media History SEMR