Education
2015: present: Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
- Dissertation: “Platform Feminism” supervised by Sarah Sharma
2014: MA Communications and New Media, McMaster University
- Major Research Project: “On Hacker Manifestos, Collectivity and Violence” supervised by Sara Bannerman
2013: Honours BA (Distinction), English Literature and Political Science, University of Guelph
2011: Exchange Student, Literature and Politics, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Teaching Experience
2017, 2018: CCT200H5S- Intercultural Communication, Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto
2016, 2017, 2018 : CCT340H5F- Gender, Media and Technology, Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto
2016, 2017, 2018: CCT316- Communication and Advertising, Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto
2016, 2017: CCT110- Rhetoric and Media, Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018: CCT109- Contemporary Communication Technologies, Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto
2014: CMST1A03- Introduction to Communications, Teaching Assistant, McMaster University
2013:MM1A03-Multimedia and Digital Society, Teaching Assistant, McMaster University
Publications
MsUnderstanding Media co–edited volume with Sarah Sharma (Under Contract with Duke University Press)
Dyer-Witherford, N., Milland K., Irani, L., Gandini, A., Singh, R. (2019). Checking in on Log Out: Reflections on Platform Labour. Notes From Below: Issue 7.
Singh, R. and Sharma S. (2019). “Platform Uncommons”, Feminist Media Studies. , DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1573547
Singh, R. (2018). “Platform Feminism: Protest and the Politics of Spatial Organization”, ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology: Issue 14.
Shade, L. and Singh, R. (2016). “Honestly, We’re Not Spying on Kids’: School Surveillance of Young People’s Social Media,” Social Media + Society, October-December 2016: 1–12.
“Gender and Digital Activism” Invited lecture presented to CCT340HF: Gender, Media and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2016.
“Technology and Aging” Invited lecture presented to HLTHAGE 1BB3:Aging and Society, McMaster University, 2016.
Conference Presentations
“Platform Feminism”, Union for Democratic Communications (UDC), Chicago, 2018.
“Placing Cyberspace”, Canadian Communications Association (CCA), Toronto, 2017.
“Cyber Metaphors, Digital Activism and Open Access”, Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) Conference, Detroit, 2016.
“On Cyber Metaphor, ”, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference, Leicester UK, 2016.
“On Hacker Manifestos, Violence and Collectivity”, Circuits of Struggle: Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) Conference, Toronto, 2015
“Digital Homes: A Contemporary Critique of The Poetics of Space”, Canadian Communications Association (CCA) Conference, Ottawa, 2015
“On Hacker Manifestos, Violence and Collectivity”, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference, Montreal, 2015.
Awards
2018: Florence Partridge Research Award- $1500
2015- ongoing : University of Toronto Fellowship- $32000
2016: University of Toronto SGS Travel Grant- $710
2013: McMaster Graduate Scholarship – $ 4000
2009: University of Guelph Entrance Scholarship- $ 2500
Research Experience
2017, 2018: Managing Editor, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
2016: Research Assistant to Jeff Boase (eRhythms), University of Toronto
2015-2017: Research Assistant to Leslie Regan Shade (eQuality project), University of Toronto
Academic Service
2017-2018: President, Doctoral Students Association, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
2016-2017: Secretary, Doctoral Students Association, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Professional and Research Affiliations
Canadian Communications Association
International Association for Media and Communications Research
Union for Democratic Communications
PhD Summer Resident, McLuhan Center for Culture and Technology
You’re Deactivated Working Group, McLuhan Center for Culture and Technology
