Tech Will Not Save Us: The Subjugation of Politics and Democracy to Big Tech

Dr Julia R. DeCook (PhD) is an assistant professor of Advocacy and Social Change in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. Her research examines the ways that online hate groups (particularly the Manosphere and the far right) navigate the constraints and affordances of digital infrastructure to understand how they manage to persist despite attempts to ban them. She also researches disinformation and conspiracy theories, platform governance and policies on hate speech, and social justice as it pertains to communication and information architecture.