尤物视频

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: pippaa@sfu.ca

Phillipa Adams

Philippa Adams, PhD (尤物视频) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at SFU's Digital Democracies Institute. As the Program Manager of the Data Fluencies Project and Co-PI of its Experimental Algorithmic Futures Working Group, her research brings together computational methods and cultural studies in communication, media, and feminist critical data studies.

At the core of her current research are questions about how new and social media, and the computational systems they are built upon, are implicated in the reinforcement or change of existing power structures, and how critical data scholars can better interpret and understand our relationship to social media and social media data.

EDUCATION

• 2023 PhD in Communication. 尤物视频 (Dissertation: Higher Further Faster: Social Media Discourses of Feminism, Misogyny and Captain Marvel)
• 2016 MA in Communication. 尤物视频 (Thesis: Creativity within Constraints: Encoding, production, & representation in Battlestar Galactica)
• 2012 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Communication. 尤物视频
• 2009 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. University of Victoria

PUBLICATIONS

• 鈥淭he Revenge of 鈥楾ribal鈥� Toxic Masculinity: Hate Raids on Twitch.鈥� Adams, P.R., Sommers, M., Scholl, B., Lusoli, A., & W.H.K. Chun. (2025). (Forthcoming with the Journal of Visual Culture).
• Stewart, N., Adams, P.R., and S. Quader. (2023). 鈥溾�淲e are disposable鈥�: Precarity, mobility, and inequity in higher education鈥檚 gig academy.鈥� Communication, Culture, and Critique. 17:1. 64-71.
• Adams, P. R., Scholl, B., & Sommers, M. (2023). 鈥淕aming Platforms as Chaotic Neutral?: Toxic Performance, Community Resistance, and Agonistic Potential.鈥� AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 
• Scholl, B., Sommers, M., Lusoli, A., Adams, P.R., & W.H.K. Chun 鈥溾�楽murfing is a pretty common problem鈥�: Toward a performative conception of toxicity鈥�. Proceedings of DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) 2023. 
• Canute, M., Jin, M., holtzclaw, h., Lusoli, A., Adams, P.R., Pandya, M., Taboada, M., Maynard, D., & W.H.K. Chun. 鈥淒imensions of Online Conflict: Towards Modeling Agonism.鈥� Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2023
• Stewart, N., Rahman, A., Adams, P.R., and J. Hughes. (2021). 鈥淪ame Storm, Different Nightmares: Emergency Remote Teaching by Contingent Communication Instructors During the Pandemic鈥�. Communication Education. 70:4; p. 402-420. 
• Adams, P.R., Frizzo-Barker, J., Ackah, B.B., and P.A. Chow-White. (2019). 鈥淢eetups: making space for women on the blockchain.鈥� In. Blockchain and Web 3.0: Social, economic, and technological challenges. Eds. M. Ragnedda and G. Destefanis. Routledge Press.
• Frizzo-Barker, J., Chow-White, P.A., Adams, P.R., Mentanko, J., Ha, D., and S. Green. 鈥淏lockchain as a disruptive technology for business: A systematic review.鈥� International Journal of Information Management. Vol 51 (April 2020). Online First 2019.
• Chow-White, P.A., Mentanko, J., Adams, P.R., and J. Frizzo-Barker. (2019). Blockchain and Communication. Oxford Bibliographies. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756841-0247
• Chow-White, P.A., Ackah, B.B., and P.R. Adams. (2018). Digital Divide. Oxford Bibliographies. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756841-0210
• Hackett, R.A., and P.R. Adams. 鈥淛obs vs the Environment?: Mainstream and alternative media coverage of pipeline controversies.鈥� Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Corporate Mapping Project. Published December 19th, 2018. 
• Chow-White, P.A., Deveau, D., and P.R. Adams. (2015). 鈥淢edia Encoding in Science Fiction Television: Examining Battlestar Galactica as a Site of Critical Cultural Production.鈥� Media Culture and Society. Vol 37. No. 8. pp. 1210-1225.

AWARDS

• 2024 尤物视频 Graduate FCAT Dean's Convocation Medal
• 2021 Asper Graduate Fellowship in Communication
• 2017 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
• 2017 SFU Provost Prize of Distinction
• 2013 SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS (MA) Award

RESEARCH

• Critical data studies

• Popular culture

• Sentiment analysis

• Computational communication

• Research methods