Thrilled that we'll be welcoming @michaeliantorno.com as a new colleague to the BA in Creative & Cultural Industries at UCD from September! Michael's scholarship & teaching in game studies, design, and audio/visual production will be an incredible addition to our programme ⭐ 🎮 bit.ly/3Pw9IwW

this little bot is gonna save lives by getting into silos where people shouldn't go and doing jobs people really shouldn't do and that by gum is what tech is for, rock on grain weevil

"I felt that this was just something meaningful to do." ICCIT Professor Leon Lu has created the Haptic Harness, a signal-sending vest that will help a deaf-blind woman scale Mount Everest. www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/si...

Check out the UTM library exhibit "It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: 40 Years of The Legend of Zelda" ⚔️ From classic cartridges to rare materials from the Syd Bolton Collection, explore how The Legend of Zelda shaped gaming history and more. Learn more 🎮 https://bit.ly/3PFQNzw

📆 Join us tomorrow (April 24) for the 2026 ICCIT Annual Lecture, featuring Amanda Lagerkvist. Registration is still open! www.eventbrite.ca/e/iccit-annu...

Some good news for all the game jam organisers out there! We've put together a press kit for 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵, 𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳? so you can easily share it at your events and on social media. Our interactive tool is a great way to give budding game developers post-jam advice and resources.

Professor Sarah Sharma was recently interviewed by Duke University Press about her upcoming book, Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech. The book reveals big tech's patriarchal deployment of media theory and proposes a new feminist politics of tech. dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/q...

We are pleased to announce that Amanda Lagerkvist of Uppsala University, Sweden will be delivering the 2026 ICCIT Annual Lecture on April 24. Her talk will be entitled "AI as Existential Media: Refiguring Human–Technology Relationality at 'the End Times.'" www.eventbrite.ca/e/iccit-annu...

Revisiting the archives today. Always glad to have this affirmation in my back pocket.🙏🍭

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Today! Drop in for the UTM Research Excellence Celebration, where ICCIT Professor Julie Yujie Chen will be recognized with a Research Prize in the Social Sciences.🎉

Though our official launch was June 2025, it's been over a year since @mathewiantorno.com and I started dropping Spellbinder zines in @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social boxes. Now available in 4 (!) languages, Spellbinder is our most global game project. Check for tiny wizards in your LFL!🧙

On April 20, we will be hosting Leopoldina Fortunati at the Faculty of Information for the launch of her new book, "The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital."📖

The preliminary schedule for CCA 2026 has been released!🍁 A very apt panel name this year.

Adult industry workers - from content creators to escorts - have bank accounts closed without warning + financial services unjustly denied over their profession. Why is legal, consensual work targeted for debanking in 🇨🇦? Learn more: www.internetmaggie.com/debankingfacts @publicpubics.bsky.social

With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4

Hooray for Julie! 🌟

Just submitted my paper to 4S 2026 in Toronto! A reminder that the call for submissions is open until April 30. www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

Thanks to everyone who showed up to my talk at the Centre for Culture and Technology last night! Always happy to talk about the weird food robots I've been studying. 🤖🛒

Want to learn more about videogame preservation? 🕹️The University of Oxford is hosting 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 & 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 this Thursday! ⚡I'll be contributing a Satellaview lightning talk (@jeanketterling.bsky.social + @videogamehistorian.bsky.social will also join the lightning round).

Tomorrow!

Thanks to everyone who showed up for my goofy mushroom talk at Trip Out! yesterday.🍄

STS folks, @alexross73.bsky.social & I are leading an open panel for 4S 2026 (in Toronto!) on games vs./as reactionary politics 🎮 WarGames references & re-imaginations of gamer capital galore! Submit your 250-word abstracts via the @4sweb.bsky.social system & message us with any burning questions 🔥

📣A final reminder! The Trip Out! symposium is happening tomorrow at UTM. You can also join us tonight at the Centre for Culture and Technology for a pre-conference media experience.

I'll be leading a Monday Night Seminar next week (March 9th) at the Centre for Culture and Technology sharing my research on algorithms in the grocery aisle. 🤖🛒 Registration is open now. www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-nig...

As I sit on a train heading for Toronto, I'm once again sharing my starter pack for Canadian game studies folks! 🎮 Follow to learn more about cool games research. ❗Ping me if you think you should be on this (very inclusive) list.

You can also join us Wednesday evening at the Centre for Culture and Technology for "Curating Psychedelic Media," a discussion with ROM curator Justin Jennings. This will include a screen tour of the museum's upcoming exhibition, Psychedelics. www.eventbrite.com/e/curating-p...

Find me at Trip Out! next week, where I'll be presenting on AI, mushrooms, and other weirdness.🍄

Researchers say Meta’s patent for simulating dead users could be a “turning point” in “AI resurrections.”

Good. Always in favour of strict standards for food labelling and promotion. Carney's recent push towards unit price labelling was a good start; next, we need to have a discussion about digital ink price tags (pictured) and dynamic pricing. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Tomorrow! Starting from 10 EST — lounge and latch onto @michaeliantorno.com ENDLESS WINTERS! #ROM Hack of #Earthbound by #Nintendo that captures the nostalgic essence of Michael’s game memories.

I have found truly the worst vending machine. Even worse than the pizza one.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Join the ICCIT from March 4-5 for Trip Out!, our third annual graduate-faculty research symposium. This year, invited scholars and graduate students will consider human relationships to technologies of altered perception. www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/upcomi...

There's a lot of fluff in this announcement, but the introduction of unit price labelling for grocery products is a big win for Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry," published by Common Notions Press, includes first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labour movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives. www.commonnotions.org/buy/notes-to...

Join ICCIT professors Julie Chen and Alessandro Delfanti on February 12 for the launch of their new book, "Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry," co-authored with members of The Capacitor Collective. www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...

Pleased to announce that I'll be leading a Monday Night Seminar at the Centre for Culture and Technology this March. Stay tuned for more details. www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca/events

Good. It'll be interesting to see where other creator-focused platforms and venues land on the generative AI issue over the next few years... and if they actually enforce the rules. www.404media.co/comic-con-ba...

The career of Professor Julie Yujie Chen was recently celebrated in a full-length article published by @utm-research.bsky.social. Her research projects, such as her recent role as co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Digital Labour, continue to enrich the ICCIT. www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...

Looks like there's a snow day at U of T today (on all three campuses!). Everyone stay home and stay safe!❄️

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Did a dive into corporate micro-market social media posts today. It's a lot.

Jeffrey Boase, a faculty member at the ICCIT, will be having a book talk tonight at Victoria College. There's still time to sign up!

Canada's federal gov has a new program to bring researchers to Canada & my uni is starting an internal nomination process for chairs. If you are a full or associate prof working on AI/democracy/community engagement/environmental justice and you may be interested in moving to Canada, dm me

The Sage Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by my amazing supervisor Julie Yujie Chen, is out in the world! 📖✨

In what has inadvertently become an annual tradition, I've redesigned my website. 💻✨ mathewiantorno.com

Your periodic reminder that I host a Labour & Technology Scholars starter park. It's a good way to connect with people studying AI, platforms, unions, etc. if you're new to Bluesky. go.bsky.app/UMaa7T3

Generative AI has made Amazon’s knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone it’s leaving them frustrated— and the internet worse in the process.

“Don’t walk in” instead of “just walk out.”