Current Projects

Casino Capitalism: Digital Gambling, Screen Workers, and Cyberlibertarians

Chelsea’s dissertation research illustrates the global links between the digital gambling industry’s feminized labor force, neoliberal economic policies, and cyberlibertarian ideologies. She is advised by Drs. Patrice Petro, Alenda Chang, Laila Shereen Sakr, Maurizia Boscagli, and Jane Ward.

Conspiracy Theory Thinking, Populism and the Digital Age: Critique and Consensus in a Fractured World

Supported by the UC Irvine Humanities Center’s Building Intellectual Community grant, this working group brings scholars together across the humanities to explore how the proliferation of conspiracy theories in the digital age is related to other historical phenomena that emerged during periods of political instability and the rise of new forms of media and communication.

Alt-Right Media Literacy Series

Interdisciplinary six-part speaker series with scholars invited to speak on the movement from the academic lenses of history, cultural identity, art, new media practices, religious studies and esotericism, and feminism. Fall 2022–Spring 2024. More information at altrightmedialiteracy.com.