Dr. Jason Lajoie is an early career scholar in responsible innovation, research-creation design and equity, queer media theory, as well as a documentary filmmaker and Organizing Chair for the IEEE International Symposium for Technology And Society 2021 (ISTAS21). Jason’s research engages queer theory, Applied Media Theory, critical making, and DH methodologies—often in collaboration with the University of Waterloo's Critical Media Lab—to consider how queer identities are constructed, shared and negotiated through media and technology.