Portrait of Mathew Iantorno

Mathew Iantorno

Title/Position
Doctoral Candidate
Faculty of Information

Mathew Iantorno (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on forms of retail automation, such as kiosks and delivery robots, and how these technologies reconfigure employment, consumer responsibility, and public space in ways that are often incongruous with their marketing pitches. This research project is currently supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral; a Graduate Fellowship in Critical Digital Humanities; and a School of Cities Graduate Fellowship. Mathew's work is informed through his involvement with the Design Justice Network, an international organization dedicated to rethinking design processes to centre those normally marginalized by design.

Supervisor
Julie Yujie Chen

Education
Master of Arts (MA) in Communication & Culture, Toronto Metropolitan University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English & New Media, University of Toronto Scarborough

Publications

  • Brown, A., Kumar, A. T., Melamed, O., Ahmed, I., Wang, Y. H., Deza, A., Morcos, M., Zhu, L., Maslej, M., Minian, N., Sujaya, V., Wolff, J., Doggett, O., Iantorno, M., Ratto, M., Selby, P., & Rose, J. (2023). A Motivational Interviewing Chatbot With Generative Reflections for Increasing Readiness to Quit Smoking: Iterative Development Study. JMIR Mental Health, vol. 10, no. 1, 2023. Article. https://doi.org/10.2196/49132
  • Iantorno, M., Doggett, O., Chandra, P., Chen, J.Y., Steup, R., Raval, N., Khovanskaya, V., Lam, L., Singh, A., Rotz, S., & Ratto, M. “Outsourcing Artificial Intelligence: Responding to the Reassertion of the Human Element into Automation.” Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April 15, 2022. Virtual. Workshop.
  • Iantorno, M. “Review of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 54, no. 1, April 2, 2021. Book review.

Other

Specialization
Digital Labour
Science and Technology Studies
Digital Humanities
Media Archaeology
Marketing History