Becky Holt / Concordia University

Becky Holt is a researcher who focuses on the intersections between Internet technology, digital culture, and adult content. A doctoral candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, her dissertation centers on MindGeek—the company responsible for Pornhub and most other popular pornographic platforms. Becky locates MindGeek alongside other tech giants and tracks the impact of online pornography on emergent digital economies and the web at large. Her work is forthcoming in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. Becky is also working as a coordinator for the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University.