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Dr. Mél Hogan is the host of The Data Fix podcast () and an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ. 

My areas of interest and scholarly expertise are: data infrastructure, big tech and the environment.

Supervision and teaching:

I’m not taking on new MA or PhD students at this time. (I am available for supervisory committees and exams over Zoom.)

In general, I’m happy to consider supervising projects that take a critical, environmental, collective-humanistic, cultural, social, and/or historical approach to data, communication, media, and technology. 

I work well with students from interdisciplinary backgrounds. I’m an especially good fit for students whose research interests draw on qualitative, exploratory, research-creation, speculative, or ethnographic methods, and who work within communication and media studies; environmental humanities; environmental media; archival theory; elemental media; infrastructural studies; critical data studies; media archaeology; algorithm studies; science and technology studies (STS); history of technology; and critical theory.

I’m most excited about working with students interested in projects looking at the various and vast environmental impacts of data infrastructures.

I am not suited to projects primarily focused on solving technical problems (around AI and algorithms, for example) or looking for expertise in quantitative social sciences methods. 

I normally teach undergraduate and graduate courses on topics that intersect media and the environment.