Biography

Dr. Daphne Rena Idiz (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Industries at York University. Her research investigates how media industries, cultural policy frameworks, and production cultures respond to and shape technological change, with a particular focus on streaming and generative AI (GenAI). She holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. She is currently Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project (see: https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/), which explores how creative workers are experiencing and negotiating the rapidly evolving impacts of GenAI and digital technologies in their lives and work. She is also Co-Investigator on the SSHRC-funded research project “Worker-led AI Governance: Power Resources and Shared Learnings of Cultural Workers in Canada and Brazil.”

Dr. Idiz is co-editor of the special issues “Streaming Production Cultures” (Television & New Media, 2026) and “Cultural Workers and Generative AI” (AI & Society, 2026). Her work has been published in outlets such as Media, Culture & Society, Television & New Media, Media Industries, New Media & Society, the Journal of Digital Media & Policy, Critical Studies in Television, the International Journal of Communication, and AI & Society. She has also contributed to public policy development through commissioned research for the European Union and award-winning scholarship recognized with the 2025 CRTC–CCA Prize for Excellence in Policy Research (Research Category).