Reactionary Futurism: The Rise of Technofascism in Silicon Valley

Presented by Assistant Professor Becca Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Part of the FIMS Rogers Chair 2025/26 lecture series and co-hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies.

Join us in person on October 30.

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (reception to follow)
Location: Conron Hall, University College

Speaker bio: Becca Lewis is the Old Dominion Career Development Assistant Professor in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford University Department of Communication, where she obtained her PhD in 2024. Her work examines the ideas and politics that shape Silicon Valley and the internet. She previously worked as a researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute, where she published flagship reports on far-right online broadcasting, media manipulation, and disinformation. Her work has been published in academic journals including New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, and American Behavioral Scientist, and in news outlets such as The Guardian and Business Insider. In 2022, she served as an expert witness in the defamation lawsuit brought against Alex Jones by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim.