Toija Cinque

Toija Cinque is an associate professor in communications (digital media) whose research explores the challenges and opportunities of digital life. Their work examines the media developments of digitisation, datafication, and platformisation, focusing on the socio-cultural and environmental implications of data-driven and algorithmically steered infrastructures and interfaces. Cinque co-produced Memories That Make Us: Stories of post World War 2 Italian Migration to Australia , a feature...See more

Toija Cinque is an associate professor in communications (digital media) whose research explores the challenges and opportunities of digital life. Their work examines the media developments of digitisation, datafication, and platformisation, focusing on the socio-cultural and environmental implications of data-driven and algorithmically steered infrastructures and interfaces. Cinque co-produced Memories That Make Us: Stories of post World War 2 Italian Migration to Australia , a feature documentary that won Best Ethnographic Film in the New York International Film Awards and was an official selection at the Asti International Film Festival, Italy; and Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival, Italy. Cinque's works include Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (2015); The Dark Social: Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power (co-edited, 2023); Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision (co-edited, 2022); Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life (co-written, 2015); and Communication, New Media and Everyday Life (co-written, 2012). See less