Neta Alexander

Neta Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale University, where she teaches courses on digital culture, disability media, and algorithmic bias. Before joining Yale, she taught at Colgate University and served as Assistant Editor of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. She holds a PhD from New York University and an MA from Columbia University.

Her research focuses on intersections of digital culture, science/technology studies, and critical disability studies. Key works include Failure (2020, co-authored with Arjun Appadurai), analyzing how Silicon Valley and Wall Street monetize failure, and her forthcoming book Interface Frictions, exploring design features like autoplay and Night Shift through a lens of 'digital debility.'

Her articles appear in Journal of Visual Culture, Cinema Journal, and Media Fields Journal, with recent work addressing teleprompters, Holocaust commemoration via VR, and disability media studies. Public scholarship includes writings in The Atlantic and Haaretz, examining topics like predictive personalization and medical technology.

• Current courses: AI Ethics, Media and Algorithmic Bias
• Research interests include: digital latency, interface design, crip media futures

Her work bridges academic and public spheres, challenging ableist techno-worlds and exploring mediation through disability-informed frameworks.