Aurélie Petit

Aurélie Petit (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Film and Moving Image Studies program at Concordia University, Montreal. Her dissertation examines the relationship between reactionary online cultures and Japanese animation in the United States, with a focus on exclusionary discourses towards marginalized communities. Steaming from this project, she is looking into the circulation of pornographic animation on streaming platforms. Aurélie will be working with Tarleton Gillespie at the Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research to research the limits of automated content moderation on Pornhub regarding animated child pornography. Additionally, she is the new AI + Society Initiative Research Fellow in AI and Inclusion at the CRAiEDL STEAM Collective at the University of Ottawa.