Alessandra Renzi
Alessandra Renzi is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Concordia University. Her interdisciplinary work explores the linkages and relays between media, art and civic engagement through community-led research, ethnographic studies and media projects. She has studied pirate television networks in Italy, the surveillance of social movements in Canada after 9-11 and housing and data justice in Indonesia and Canada. Her current research investigates how society���s increasing reliance on platforms, algorithms and AI is changing urban landscapes and community organizing alike. She is the PI of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant titled "On the Margins of the Platform Economy: Community-led Responses to Technical Gentrification," with focus on Montreal's Parc Extension neighbourhood.
Selected Publications
Baumann, Y., Renzi, A., Shahamati, S., & Vukov, T. (2025). . In Handbook of Platform Urbanism (pp. 307-320). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Renzi, A., & Frenzel, J. (2025). . Big Data & Society, 12(2).