Toija Cinque is an Associate Professor in Communications (Digital Media). Her research explores the challenges and opportunities of digital life. Cinque’s work examines the media developments of digitization, datafication, and platformization, 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 Official Selection in the Asti International Film Festival, Italy; and, Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival, Italy. Cinque has authored 9 books, including Emerging Digital Media Ecologies (Routledge, 2024, In Press); Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (Oxford University Press, 2015); and, The Dark Social: Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power (co-edited, Routledge, 2023).
