Jordan Kinder

Jordan Kinder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His research and teaching focus on the cultural politics of energy, media, infrastructure, and the environment, drawing from materialist media and communication studies, the energy and environmental humanities, and critical Indigenous studies. His work examines how media systems, social platforms, and communication practices shape public understanding of extractive industries, environmental conflict, and infrastructural power. He is the author of the book *Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media* (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), which critically analyzes how pro-oil movements in Canada mobilized through social media during contested oil sands pipeline debates. The book received the Canadian Communication Association’s 2025 Emerging Scholar Prize and was a finalist for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s 2025 Ecocritical Book Award. His research has appeared in journals such as the *Canadian Journal of Communication*, *Journal of Environmental Media*, and *South Atlantic Quarterly*, and he is currently working on a historical monograph on media and infrastructure politics surrounding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline proposals of the 1970s.