Daphne Rena Idiz (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Sessional Lecturer with the Creative Labour and Critical Futures cluster at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Her research critically engages with media industries, production cultures, and audiovisual media policy, with a particular focus on the impacts of and responses to emerging technologies such as streaming television and generative AI.

Daphne’s work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including Media, Culture & Society, Critical Studies in Television, the Journal of Digital Media & Policy, and the International Journal of Communication. She has also contributed to policy-oriented research, most notably the European Commission’s Study on Media Plurality and Diversity Online.

She is also co-editing a forthcoming special issue for Television & New Media on “Streaming Production Cultures.”

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.