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, 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 andaward-winning scholarship recognized with the 2025 CRTC–CCA Prize for Excellence in Policy Research (Research Category).

In her non-academic life, Daphne is a voracious reader, serious foodie, to-do list fanatic, mushroom forager, trivia team member, hobby beekeeper, and dinosaur enthusiast. And a ✨Taurus✨, in case you were wondering.