Nicolette Little, PhD - Directory@UAlberta.ca

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Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Faculty of Arts - Media Tech Studies (MTS)

Email: nklittle@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

feminist media studies gender-based violence activism social media manosphere memory

About

Dr. Nicolette Little (Ph.D., University of Calgary) teaches with the University of Alberta’s Media and Technology Studies program. Her research interests include contemporary media culture and digital activisms, feminist media interventions in gender-based violence (GBV), tech-facilitated violence, and mediated cultural memory. She advises the Canadian federal government, media, policing services, and non-profits regarding media and GBV. Her recent publications include “Social Media Ghosts: How Facebook (Meta) Memories Complicates Healing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence” (Feminist Media Studies, 2023) and “Memorial-tweeting Ontario’s femicides: The use of Twitter (X) in gender-based violence-related activism and commemoration” (Canadian Journal of Communication, 2024). Her full-length work, From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (2026), is being published by University of British Columbia Press and will be out June 1, 2026. Nicolette also recently received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant (2025-2027) to study the use of private social media platforms for addressing dating violence, and actively mentors research assistants.