Arun Jacob
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Arun Jacob (he/him) is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. He completed his Master of Arts in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory and Master of Arts in Work and Society at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and his Master of Professional Communication from Toronto Metropolitan University. Arun's doctoral work unites media genealogy, intersectional feminist media studies, and critical university studies to explore how contemporary university data management techniques and information management systems shape our socio-cultural relations, experiences, and knowledge. Arun’s publications have appeared in Debates in Digital Humanities 2023, Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, The College Quarterly, Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned and Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities.
Supervisor
Jeremy Packer
Publications
Journal Article
- Bryant, Haley, Nelanthi Hewa, Camille Inston and Arun Jacob (2022).“Making the most of the ‘crisortunity’: Techno-fixes and precarity in a global pandemic” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 3, no. 2, Dec 02, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.db5a6abe.
- Jacob, Arun. (2021). Follow The Ho Chi Minh Trail: Analyzing the Media History of the Electronic Battlefield. Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 2, no. 1, Oct 05, 2021. https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.d9c905e8.
- Boulay, Nadine, Ashley Caranto Morford, Arun Jacob, Kush Patel, and Kimberly O’Donnell. (2021). “Transforming DH Pedagogy.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1–43. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.379.
- Jacob, Arun. (2020). Punching Holes in the International Busa Machine Narrative. Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 1, no. 1, May 31, 2020. https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.d7d097c2.
Book Chapter
- Boyles, Christina, Andrew Boyles Petersen, and Arun Jacob. (2023). “Operationalizing Surveillance Studies in the Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. Edited by Matthew Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452969565.
- Jacob, Arun, and Christine H. Tran. (2023). “How We Learned to Stop SWAT-ing and Love the (Zoom-)Bomb: A (De)Predatory History of Disrupting the Livestream,” Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture edited by Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher Persaud, MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14526.003.0011.
- Patel, Kush, Ashley Caranto Morford, Arun Jacob. (2023).“Workshops in Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities: Towards Building Relationships with Critical University and Community Movements.” Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned, edited by Laura Estill, Jennifer Guiliano, Routledge. pp. 117-127. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301097-14.
- Jacob, Arun. (2021). Punching Holes in the International Busa Machine Narrative. Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, edited by Dorothy Kim, Adeline Koh, Punctum Books. pp. 121 -144. https://doi.org/10.53288/0274.1.00.
Research
Arun's doctoral work unites media genealogy, intersectional feminist media studies, and critical university studies to explore how contemporary university data management techniques and information management systems shape our socio-cultural relations, experiences, and knowledge.