Associate Professor
Josef Nguyen (he/him/his) is an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media and in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Digital Studies Institute and of the Science, Technology, and Society Program. His research and teaching engages media studies, science and technology studies, and feminist and queer theory to investigate the contested meanings of technological labor and design in digital culture, with particular attention to consent and/as digital technology; creative labor and the creative economy; sex, intimacy, and technology; feminist, queer, and trans gaming; DIY, craft, and maker cultures; and fan media and fandom practices.
His first book, The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2021. His second book, Click to Agree: Sex, Software, and the Terms and Conditions of Digital Consent, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. Additionally, he has published work in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, including Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, American Literature, Cultural Politics, Lateral, Feminist Media Histories, Transformative Works and Cultures, and JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.