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Luke Stark

Luke Stark

Doctoral Student Fellow

Doctoral Student, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Luke Stark is doctoral candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University under the supervision of Helen Nissenbaum. His dissertation project, “Self-Managed Feeling: Psychology and Interaction Design from Smartphones to the Anxious Seat,” is a genealogy of digital mood tracking applications, and explores how psychological tools and techniques have been built into the design of the mobile device we use on a daily basis. With a focus on affect and emotion, Luke’s broader scholarship explores the changing nature of human subjectivity in the computational age. Luke holds an Honours BA in History & English and an MA in History, both from the University of Toronto; he has been generously funded by the National Science Foundation, New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the Provost’s Global Research Initiative, the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, and Microsoft Research.