Brad Limov

Brad Limov is a postdoctoral research fellow in media, AI, and ethics at the Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI). His work examines how social movements and emerging technologies like generative AI influence media practices and industry norms. This research has focused on communities of practice and how they interact within spaces online and offline at events.

Brad’s efforts at TIPI primarily fall under the Good Systems Being Watched project, for which he explores similar ethical questions as they pertain to public institutions and the adoption of AI and surveillance technologies.

Brad received his PhD from the School of Journalism and Media at UT-Austin. His dissertation, Media Industry Events as Platforms for Social Justice: Moving from Inspiration to Impact in Creative Production, is the result of a three-year comparative event ethnography in Austin, Texas with case studies on South by Southwest and the Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference. He details how the problems identified and solutions proposed by social justice movements appear within discourses on practice at the events, as well as the ways talk translates into action within, or adjacent to, industrial constraints. His scholarly writing has appeared in Critical Studies in Media Communication, NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Information, Communication & Society, Media and Communication, and International Journal of Communication.