Jaime Kirtz
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Mail code: 5802Campus: Tempe
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Kirtz is an assistant professor of media studies and algorithmic culture in the School of Art, Media and Engineering. She is an affiliated faculty member in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication Graduate Program as well as affiliate faculty and member of the AI & Ethics and AI & Sustainability workgroups at the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. Kirtz is the founding Co-Director of the TechnoMaterials Lab, an experimental space for research on connections across physical and digital states of media technology.
Her work addresses material aspects and pressing social issues in algorithmic rhetoric, digital media and technology, and data-driven culture from a human-centric perspective. Her current research interrogates how gendered and racial inequalities extend from historical media to platform economies and AI-driven human-computer interactions and lies at the intersections between new materialism, feminist theory, science and technology studies and media archaeology.
She received her Ph.D. in Media Research and Practice from the College for Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was a fellow for the Center for Media, Religion and Culture and curator for the Media Archaeology Lab.
Ph.D. Media Research and Practice, University of Colorado Boulder 2019
M.A. English Literature and Writing, Concordia University 2014
B.Sc. Physics & English Literature, University of British Columbia 2010
- TechnoMaterials Lab, School of Arts, Media and Engineering (Co-Director)
- AI & Sustainability Workgroup, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
- AI & Ethics, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
- Center for Philosophical Technologies, School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Matviyenko, Svitlana, and Jaime Lee Kirtz. "Echo Chambers of Paranoid Knowledge: On Cyberwar Epistemology." Discourse 45, no. 3 (2023): 381-403.
Kirtz, Jaime Lee, and Zeerak Talat. "Futures for research on hate speech in online social media platforms." (2023): 467-482.
Kirtz, Jaime Lee. “Beyond the Blackbox: Repurposing ROM Hacking for Feminist Hacking/Making Practices.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, no. 13, 2018.
Kirtz is currently working on a book project that focuses on the domestication of data and AI that traces long histories of social norms and inequalities across media and technology in the home. She is also currently working on a grant-funded project on the embedded biases in GIFs and issues of emotion and AI, recommendation algorithms, and identity tourism.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| AME 486 | MAS Capstone II |
| AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
| AME 404 | Reading the Algorithm |
| AME 404 | Reading the Algorithm |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| AME 485 | MAS Capstone I |
| AME 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| AME 394 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| AME 486 | MAS Capstone II |
| AME 494 | Special Topics |
| AME 494 | Special Topics |
| AME 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| AME 485 | MAS Capstone I |
| AME 394 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| AME 485 | Digital Culture Capstone I |
| AME 111 | Intro to Digital Culture |
| AME 111 | Intro to Digital Culture |