Alex Chartrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 4685513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Chartrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Chartrand |
| SIGNATURE | CHARTRAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2689-3193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Our Community's Algorithm, It Works Very Well Too”
Platform algorithms can pose issues of legibility and exclusion for LGBTQ + people, yet queer perspectives remain largely absent from public debates on artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems. This paper examines how LGBTQ + actors interpret, challenge, and reconfigure algorithmic logics to foreground their critical role in engaging with platform governance. Our analysis brings together the concept of algorithmic imaginaries as shared vis…
Staring Back at the Surveillance Gaze
Digital platforms and social media shape social, economic, and political life, making participation almost unavoidable (Van Dijck, Poell, and De Waal 2018; Steinberg 2019). This platformization, driven by datafication, records and commodifies user activity for corporate profit (West 2019). While users perceive their engagement as private, they present a public persona that is subject to commercial and political surveillance (Baym and boyd 2012; Z…
Hybrid constellations
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries
This study builds on theories of user imaginaries by examining how LGBTQ+ creators in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany respond to perceived algorithmic bias. Through observation and close reading of creators’ Instagram content, the study finds that expectations of discrimination based on sexual and gender identity, embedded in geographical and sociocultural contexts, shape these users’ understandings of threats posed by algorithmic governance…
If We Look at It From an LGBT Point of View…’ Mobilizing Lgbtq+ Stakeholders to Queer Algorithmic Imaginaries
This paper presents the results of an exploratory study that examines the social implications that platform algorithms raise for LGBTQ+ communities. We share the preliminary results of our Phase 2 group interviews, which were conducted with Canadian social media managers of LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations and with Canada-based LGBTQ+ tech workers. Algorithmic controversies relating to LGBTQ+ communities identified in Phase 1 were used as prompts …
Hybrid Constellations
This paper examines the role of social media in the definition and organization of lesbian sociocultural landscapes. Building from geographical studies that identify how lesbians’ dispersion across cities counters heteropatriarchal occupations of space, the study is anchored within Montreal/Tiohtià:ke to identify local approaches to visibility and gathering. This angle is combined with digital scholarship that considers how mobile technologies, p…
The hottest new queer club
Lockdowns and preventative measures during the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of nightlife venues that have long served as outlets for queer sociality. This article examines queer people’s response to such measures through a study of Club Quarantine (Club Q), a series of online queer club nights established during the early days of Canada’s lockdown in March 2020. It draws on mixed methods to explore Club Q’s negotiation of Zoom videoconfer…
Hybrid constellations
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries
This study builds on theories of user imaginaries by examining how LGBTQ+ creators in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany respond to perceived algorithmic bias. Through observation and close reading of creators’ Instagram content, the study finds that expectations of discrimination based on sexual and gender identity, embedded in geographical and sociocultural contexts, shape these users’ understandings of threats posed by algorithmic governance…
If We Look at It From an LGBT Point of View…’ Mobilizing Lgbtq+ Stakeholders to Queer Algorithmic Imaginaries
This paper presents the results of an exploratory study that examines the social implications that platform algorithms raise for LGBTQ+ communities. We share the preliminary results of our Phase 2 group interviews, which were conducted with Canadian social media managers of LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations and with Canada-based LGBTQ+ tech workers. Algorithmic controversies relating to LGBTQ+ communities identified in Phase 1 were used as prompts …
Hybrid Constellations
This paper examines the role of social media in the definition and organization of lesbian sociocultural landscapes. Building from geographical studies that identify how lesbians’ dispersion across cities counters heteropatriarchal occupations of space, the study is anchored within Montreal/Tiohtià:ke to identify local approaches to visibility and gathering. This angle is combined with digital scholarship that considers how mobile technologies, p…
The hottest new queer club
Lockdowns and preventative measures during the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of nightlife venues that have long served as outlets for queer sociality. This article examines queer people’s response to such measures through a study of Club Quarantine (Club Q), a series of online queer club nights established during the early days of Canada’s lockdown in March 2020. It draws on mixed methods to explore Club Q’s negotiation of Zoom videoconfer…
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries
This study builds on theories of user imaginaries by examining how LGBTQ+ creators in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany respond to perceived algorithmic bias. Through observation and close reading of creators’ Instagram content, the study finds that expectations of discrimination based on sexual and gender identity, embedded in geographical and sociocultural contexts, shape these users’ understandings of threats posed by algorithmic governance…
Hybrid constellations
“Our Community's Algorithm, It Works Very Well Too”
Platform algorithms can pose issues of legibility and exclusion for LGBTQ + people, yet queer perspectives remain largely absent from public debates on artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems. This paper examines how LGBTQ + actors interpret, challenge, and reconfigure algorithmic logics to foreground their critical role in engaging with platform governance. Our analysis brings together the concept of algorithmic imaginaries as shared vis…
Staring Back at the Surveillance Gaze
Digital platforms and social media shape social, economic, and political life, making participation almost unavoidable (Van Dijck, Poell, and De Waal 2018; Steinberg 2019). This platformization, driven by datafication, records and commodifies user activity for corporate profit (West 2019). While users perceive their engagement as private, they present a public persona that is subject to commercial and political surveillance (Baym and boyd 2012; Z…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Heteronormativity (3 works) · Lesbian (3 works) · Negotiation (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Queer theory (3 works)