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Jacob Saindon is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at Miami University specializing in digital geographies, science and technology studies, and social theory. His research critically examines intersections between information technologies, market forces, and consumer subjectivities with emphasis on spatial relations and attention economies.
His educational background includes:
- MA in Geography from the University of Kentucky
- BA in Geographical Studies from the University of Chicago
Saindon's research spans digital geographies, geospatial media, new media, and social theory, investigating how information technologies shape consumer subjectivities and spatial relations. His current project analyzes U.S. advertising industries' role in producing attention markets through media technologies that conceptualize and model attentive subjects. Prior work examined digital well-being practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring user relationships with personal technologies amid global crisis.
His publications reveal critical engagement with digital life's political dimensions, including care ethics during pandemics, queer-animal theory intersections, critiques of technological repair narratives, and historical analyses of datafication processes. These works demonstrate consistent focus on power relations within digital infrastructures and consumer subject formation.
Saindon teaches undergraduate courses in geographies of information/digital technologies, GIS, and social research methods. His pedagogy emphasizes technological fluency and information literacy, preparing students to critically navigate diverse information systems through courses like "Mapping a Changing World" and "How the Internet Works: Digital Places and People".
