I’m an associate professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. You can reach me at: cait_mckinney@sfu.ca. I’m non binary and use They/Them pronouns.
I publish my research as books, articles, and essays, and I also have an art practice.
I work in queer media studies, by which I mean: 1) media studies that centres the work of queer people and their visions of justice; and 2) methodological and theoretical approaches to media studies that draw from queer theory. I focus on how queer social movements use digital technologies to share information, and consider how their work disrupts and reimagines digital infrastructures. Much of my work is historical and draws on archival research and interviews.
I am also the In Focus editor for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
My current projects are focused on:
- the relationship between HIV and computing in the 1980s and 90s
- the ways concepts drawn from sexuality and intimacy have been used to explain the internet
- Experimental and speculative approaches to doing queer media history