Dr. Ganaele Langlois (CA) is Assistant Professor in Communication studies at York University, Canada, and Associate Director of the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media (www.infoscapelab.ca). Her research interests unite media theory and critical theory, philosophy of communication and software studies, particularly with regards to the shaping of subjectivity and agency through and with media technologies. Professor Langlois is amongst others Publisher of ‘Meaning in the Age of Social Media’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), co-editor of ‘Compromised Data? From Social Media to Big Data’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) and co-principal investigator on a SSHRC standard research grant to study the politics of social media platforms.