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Dr. Stefanie Duguay
Pronouns: she/they
- Associate Professor, Communication Studies
- Concordia University Research Chair
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Digital media, gender and sexuality, networked publics, digital research methods, social media, digital platforms and governance, science and technology studies, app studies, identity
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Biography
Bio
Stefanie Duguay 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. 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.
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.
Communities
Member of:
Feminist Media Studio
LabCMO
Association of Internet Researchers
International Communication Association
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Teaching activities
Courses taught regularly
Undergraduate Courses
COMS 354 Youth and Media
COMS 472/521 Communication Technologies and Gender
COMS 411/541 Sexuality and Public Discourse
Graduate Courses
COMS 660/893 Definitions and Futures of Media Technology / Special Topics in Digital Culture and Digital Research Methods
COMS 605 Media Research Methods
Graduate Supervision
Read more about graduate student research on the DIGS Lab website or the Graduate Student Profiles page.
Supervision inquiries: I am open to receiving inquiries from prospective students whose work relates to the topics, methods, and perspectives that I work with. When contacting me through my Concordia email, please articulate this connection between your project and my research focus so that we can determine if it might be feasible for me to supervise your thesis.
Selected Publications
Book
Duguay, S. (2022). Personal but not Private: Queer women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms. Oxford University Press.
Other
See my website or Google Scholar for an up-to-date list of publications.