mina.momeni@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x41531
Location: ML 254C
Mina Momeni holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from the joint program at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University, and an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. She also completed a BA in Photography and studied painting at art school.
Momeni’s studies focus on understanding how individuals interact with and are influenced by digital media and smart applications. She explores how these technologies can create possibilities and empower users to act, while also constraining or disabling action in different contexts. Her research interests and teaching expertise lie at the intersections of digital media, artificial intelligence, digital arts communication, human–computer interaction, multimedia storytelling, visual culture, and computational creativity. As an interdisciplinary artist, Momeni’s artwork such as photographs, videos, multimedia, and installation art explores the relationship between people, ancient cultures, symbology, monuments, and memories. She has shown her work in galleries across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Momeni is currently working on two primary projects. The first project is a book manuscript that examines the affordances of Twitter in the political activities of human and bot users through two case studies: the 2017 Women’s March and the “Build the Wall” discourse in the United States in 2019. The second is a research project on political deepfakes as a recent form of AI-generated misinformation, examining how audiences understand and engage with them. A primary outcome of this project is a journal article titled Artificial Intelligence and Political Deepfakes: Shaping Citizen Perceptions Through Misinformation published in the double-blind peer-reviewed Journal of Creative Communication (2024), which explores the impact of deepfake technology.
Fellowships & Awards
Rogers Fellowship (2016-2021)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2019)
Graduate Development Award, (2017-2018)
TMU Graduate Fellowship (2017)
GDA Travel and Prize Award (2016)
TMU Graduate Award (2011-2012)