Dr. Breigha Adeyemo is a critical platform studies scholar whose work examines how power, race, and design intersect in virtual reality (VR), gaming, and immersive digital platforms. Her research analyzes how platform logics and digital racial capitalism shape user experience, while documenting how marginalized communities resist and reimagine immersive technologies. She also maintains a secondary interest in surveillance studies, particularly how immersive and algorithmic systems extend practices of monitoring, control, and resistance.
Her scholarship appears in Feminist Media Studies and other venues, and she has presented at international conferences including ICA and ACM CHI. She is also the lead author of forthcoming works on inclusivity in VR and “unbecoming,” a framework for dismantling and reimagining extractive platform systems. In addition to academic publications, she contributes public scholarship through outlets such as The Conversation.
A committed teacher and mentor, Dr. Adeyemo has taught widely across communication, media, and technology, drawing on her expertise in critical virtual ethnography and Black cyberfeminism. She co-founded The Good Ground Project, a nonprofit providing scholarships to underrepresented students, and is passionate about inclusive pedagogy that bridges theory, practice, and design justice.
Areas of Interest: critical platform studies, social VR, digital racial capitalism, platform governance, Black cyberfeminism, critical virtual ethnography, design justice, democracy
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