Luis Contreras is a Ph.D. student in Communication, Information, and Media at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information. He currently serves as the Program Manager for the Latino Studies Research Initiative (LSRI), where he leads public-facing research on Latinx history, migration, and media. His research explores graffiti, digital platforms, and algorithmic infrastructures, with an emphasis on how marginalized communities navigate and resist systems of visibility and control. He is also interested in the affective and infrastructural labor performed by immigrant families, particularly the symbolic and data-mediated roles of eldest daughters, using frameworks of intersectionality, care, and digital labor. Luis brings experience as a lecturer in communication, media, and storytelling, having taught at universities in both California and New Jersey as well as at Snapchat’s headquarters in Santa Monica.
- Title
- LSRI Program Manager and Doctoral Student
- Area of Study/Expertise
- Emerging media technologies and Latino communities, graffiti and street art, digital ethnography, platform governance, creator economies
- luis.contreras@rutgers.edu