I’m Maggie, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information researching pornography platforms. Drawing on porn and platform studies, political economy, policy analysis and digital methods, I clarify dynamics of technology, commerce, politics and culture shaping the adult industry today. Following a thesis on the platformization of pornography, my forthcoming dissertation examines moral orders of platform governance through the case of Pornhub.

You can find my latest work in Porn Studies, The Globe and Mail, AoIR’s Selected Papers of Internet Research, The Canadian Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, First Monday and The Walrus. I currently sit on the independent Advisory Board to Pornhub.

I’m grateful to have been named a fellow with UCLA’s Centre for Critical Internet Inquiry, a Massey Junior Fellow and a Connaught PhD for Public Impact during my doctoral research, which is generously supported by Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Finally, I am a proud member of a strong local union with CUPE 3902, and of the Free Speech Coalition defending sex workers and freedom of expression. Workers of the world, unite!