Expertise:

social media, gender and sexuality, mobile apps, digital platforms, identity, online self-representation, dating apps, LGBTQI2S

Language(s) spoken:

English

Stefanie Duguay earned her PhD in Media and Communication from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, where she was an active member of the Digital Media Research Centre. During this time, she spent a summer as a PhD Intern with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research. She graduated with distinction from the MSc program at the Oxford Internet Institute and she has professional experience working with the Canadian government in the areas of client services and digital strategy.

Her research focuses on the influence of digital media technologies in everyday life, with particular attention to sexual and gender identity and social media. This has included studies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people’s social media use, dating apps, self-presentation, and everyday activism with the use of mixed traditional and digital research methods. Her research and teaching demonstrate a commitment to fostering inclusive spaces for knowledge exchange and producing research that reveals power relations in sociotechnical systems.

She is a Concordia University Research Chair (New Scholar) and Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab. The DIGS Lab aims to understand - through empirical research, theory, and creative innovation - how digital media, digital technologies, and digital culture are shaping intimate life, relationships, gender expression, and sexuality. 

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