Recent publications
2025 Pronzato, R., & Kubrusly, A. Critical, Qualitative and Situated: Pedagogical Initiatives in a Datafied Society. Societies, 15(9), 263. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15090263
2025 Kubrusly, A. Recursos Práticos para o Bem-Estar Digital Juvenil: Temas e Estratégias. Medi@ções, 13(1), 35–49. https://doi.org/10.60546/mo.v13i1.433
2025 Caldeira, S. P., Jorge, A., & Kubrusly, A. “How Can You Be a Feminist if You’re Always Online?” Online Activisms, Ambivalence, and Dis/Connection. Television & New Media, 26(4), 399-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241281693
Current research projects
2026 Futures Of AI-Impacted Teaching and Learning: Perceptions from Students
Research team: Dr. Annette Markham, Dr. Lachlan Robb, Dr. Taina Bucher, and Dr. Riccardo Pronzato
“Futures Of AI-Impacted Teaching and Learning: Perceptions and Imaginaries from Students: A Pilot Project” is a multi-university study of how higher education students think, feel, and make sense of their generation’s use of Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education, and how they perceive the impact of these technologies on the changing future of higher education amidst rapid and often radical institutional responses. The study seeks to collect in-depth qualitative accounts of students’ lived experiences and perspectives, in the form of audio, text, or video narratives gathered through a DIY auto-ethnography.
2025-2029 Understanding Our Digital Futures: KidTech, AdTech and Branded Content in the DigiVerse
PI: Dr. Natalie Coulter (York University)
This project investigates the complex ecosystems of these immersive platforms as they are radically shifting the landscape of media and entertainment and capitalizing a new digital future of large-scale digitization of entertainment, education, commerce and services all within one corporate platform: Roblox.
2025 Kids, KidTech and the Metaverse: Global childhoods in digital capitalism project
PIs: Dr. Natalie Coulter (York University) and Dr. Rebekah Willett (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Questioning KidTech explores the shift where much of children’s daily lives have moved into online spaces; and in this shifting reality, we ask what it means to be a child in these spaces. We need to understand what these digital spaces are, how they are experienced, and how they are shaping children’s social, cultural and economic lives. https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/questioning-kidtech/
Upcoming conferences
January 2026 Pronzato, R. & Kubrusly, A. Critical, Qualitative and Situated: Pedagogical Initiatives in a Datafied Society. Beyond the Audience Conference, Rome, Italy.
June 2026 Kubrusly, A. Fostering critical AI literacy to build alternative futures: Tales from the field. 6th International Media Literacy Research Symposium, Rome, Italy.
June 2026 Kubrusly, A. Digital media through adolescents’ eyes: personal beliefs and collective narratives. Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital Conference, London, United Kingdom.
