Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Piotrowski, M. (2025). Datafying climate justice education: more-than-human learning and self-care in the algorithmic Anthropocene. Environmental Education Research, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2523053

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Webb, P. T., Piotrowski, M., & Mikulan, P. (2022). Contagious Education. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 5. 169-181 https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v3i1.38965

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Piotrowski, M. (2019). ‘An atmosphere, an air, a life:’ Deleuze, elemental media, and more-than-human environmental subjectification and education. Environmental Education Research, 26(9–10), 1341–1352. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2018.1485134

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Piotrowski, M. (2018). Data desire in the Anthropocene. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture. 21(3). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1412

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Piotrowski, M. (2017). Writing in cramped spaces. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology. 8(3), 79-88. https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/rerm/article/view/2552/2461 

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Piotrowski, M. (2017). “Authentic” folds: environmental audiences, activists and subjectification in hypocrisy micropolitics. Continuum, 31(6), 1-844–856. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2017.1334874

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Piotrowski, M. & Ruitenberg, C. (2016). Liquid Subjects: How News Media Educate Political Subjects in Liquid Modernity. Critical Studies in Education. 57(3), 342-357 https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2015.1084943

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Piotrowski, M. (2015). Speaking ‘out of place:’ YouTube documentaries and viewers’ comment culture as political education. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 12(1). 53-72 https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2015.1008076

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Piotrowski, M. (2013). The rhetoric of oil in Canadian news: Framed for indigenous care. Canadian Journal of Communication. 38(4), 629-638. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2013v38n4a2649

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Presentations

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Piotrowski, M. (2021). The smart and the unknown: Contagious cognitions and the cybernetization of Earth. Paper presented at the New Materialist Informatics Conference.

 

Piotrowski, M. (2019, December). Pedagogy of the Concept: Philosophy as Horror, for Education in End-Times. Paper presented at the Pedagogies in the Wild: Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference.

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Piotrowski, M. (2019, June). The pleasure of data-selves and everyday media practices in oil politics. Paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association Conference. Vancouver, BC. 

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Piotrowski, M. (2019, March). Topologies of Life and Death: Eco-Films in Dark Times. Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Seattle, WA

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Piotrowski, M. (2018, June). Data desires in environmental movements. Paper presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

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Piotrowski, M. (2018, April). Elemental writing: Towards inquiry as a posthuman media
ecology. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association. New York,
NY.

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Piotrowski, M. (2017, May). The Post/Anthropocene and Social Justice Education: Phantasms, Subjectivities and Desire. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Ryerson University, ON

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Piotrowski, M. (2017, May). Atmospheric Audience Studies. Paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association, Ryerson University, ON

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Piotrowski, M. (2017, May) Sensing futures: Non-representational methodologies for post/Anthropocene intermezzos. Paper presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

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Piotrowski, M. (2016, May) Becoming-political in cramped spaces: Adult learning, media assemblages and environmental movements. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Calgary, AB

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Piotrowski, M. (2016, May) Writing in cramped spaces: Doing interdisciplinary research in/between the thousand disciplinary plateaus. Paper presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

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Piotrowski, M. (2015, June). Authenticity activism: Branding truthfulness in social movements. Paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association Conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.

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Piotrowski, M. & Gunster, S. (2015, June). Reluctantly cynical: Newsreaders on Climate Politics. Paper presented at the Conference on Communication and Environment. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

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Piotrowski, M. (2015, June). Truth-telling and Education for Civic Engagement: Parrhesia in a Culture of Fear and Newspeak. Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society Conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.

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Piotrowski, M. (2015, June) Post-signifying research: Mapping political subjectivization through le pli and Body without Organs. Paper presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

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Piotrowski, M. (2015, February). YouTube’s comment culture and the environmental movement. Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association Conference, Spokane, WA.

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Piotrowski, M. and Ruitenberg, C. (2014, May). Liquid news: educating neoliberal political subjects.Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON.

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Piotrowski, M. (2014, May). News audiences and climate politics: A schizoanalysis. Paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON.

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Piotrowski, M. (2013, December). Media, moral panics and activist art: The cultural pedagogy of political schizophrenics. Presented    at the Deleuze, Guattari, Schizoanalysis and Education Conference, Perth, Australia.

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Piotrowski, M. (2013, June).  “This is a Canadian Issue:” Unplaced critique and geopolitics in environmental films. A paper submitted for presentation at the Canadian Communication Annual Conference. Victoria, BC.

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Piotrowski, M. (2013, June). Regulating urgency through online video events for the purpose of environmental communication on climate change. A paper submitted for presentation at Global Power Shifts: An International Conference in Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, BC.

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Piotrowski, M. (2012, September). Beyond cultural frames: A cosmopolitan political pedagogy of environmentalism. Paper presented at the Beyond the Culture of Nature: Rethinking Canadian and Environmental Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC.

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Piotrowski, M. (2012, April). Fieldwork in philosophy: aesthetics in action. American Education Research Association, Vancouver.

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Piotrowski, M. (2011, May) Now playing…technology video series: innovative faculty development for learning about technology through videos.  Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Toronto.

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Piotrowski, M. (2011, June) Overview of schools’ adoption of curriculum mapping, management and delivery technologies, International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL), Kelowna, British Columbia

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Piotrowski, M. (2010, May). Voting for Engagement: Pioneering audience response systems in the UBC

Distributed Medical Education Program, Canadian Conference on Medical Education, St. John’s, Newfoundland

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Piotrowski, M. (2009, June). Going the Distance with Distributed Medical Education in BC, Canadian E-Learning Conference, UBC, Vancouver, BC

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Piotrowski, M. (2008, April) The Distribution of Images on Social Networking Sites, Politics Web2.0: an International Conference, University of London, London, UK

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Piotrowski, M. (2007, April) Moving Bodies in the Age of Visual and Virtual Empire.  The Human Condition Series: Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference: Empire. University Partnership Centre at Georgian College and Laurentian University, Barrie, Ontario.