Jake Pitre

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

• B.J. (Carleton), M.A. (Carleton), PhD (Concordia)
• SP413 St. Patrick’s Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

Dr. Jake Pitre, who received his PhD from Concordia University in Montreal, researches and teaches on topics including labour, platforms, and futurity, in the context of film and media studies. His dissertation, “Unwanted Utopias: Technopolitical Futurities and Streaming Video Under Platform Capitalism,” explored the narratives told by Big Tech companies as ones bound up in futurity, and used platforms such as Disney+, Twitch, and TikTok as case studies. He has also published work examining queer aesthetics, fan cultures, media industries such as Hollywood, and more. 

Publications

(2025) “Twitch and the Political Economy of Cultural Production,” in Platforms and the Moving Image, eds. Philipp Dominik Keidl & Jana Zündel. Lüneburg, Germany: meson press.

(2023) “Queer Aesthetics in the Streaming Age,” in Television Studies in Queer Times, ed. F. Hollis Griffin. New York: Routledge.

(2023) “TikTok, Creation, and The Algorithm.” The Velvet Light Trap no. 91.

(2022) “The Magical Work of Brand Futurity: The Mythmakingof Disney+.” Television & New Media.

(2022) “Platform Strategy in a Technopolitical War: The Failure (and Success) of Facebook Watch.” Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images vol. 2, no. 1.