Jacob Saindon

PhD candidate researching the spaces, politics, and economies of digital technologies, new media, and attention. he/him.

• Learn more about my dissertation research.
• Call for papers for our session at AAG Detroit 2025.

Publications

• Peer-reviewed article (2023): "Towards care-ful distraction: Digital well-being and a politics of care during pandemic lockdowns in the U.S." in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
• Editorial collective (2022): disClosure, Vol. 30: Queer Theory & Animal Theory
• Book review (2022): The Ruse of Repair
• Book review (2020): How We Became Our Data

Conferencing

• "Advertising, space, and the measurement of attention" | SEDAAG 2023
• "Public data tools for understanding urban property ownership" (with Michael McCanless) | NACIS 2023
• "Mediating advertisee attention" | AAG 2023 (Session Organizer: Digital // Attention // Geographies)
• "Three vignettes of a billboardscape" (with Michael McCanless and Matthew Wilson) | SEDAAG 2022
• "Relational self-care: reconceptualizing the role of digital well-being through pandemic screen time self-tracking" | AAG 2022
• "The use of distraction: doomscrolling, losing time, and digital well-being in pandemic space-times" | 4S 2021

Courses

• GEO406: "Field Studies in Geography" | Instructor
• GEO210: "How the Internet Works: Digital Places and People" | Instructor
• GEO161: "Global Inequalities" | Instructor
• GEO160: "Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western World" | Instructor
• GEO109: "Digital Mapping" | Teaching Assistant