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Andrew Thomas Dunn is a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research broadly explores the intersections of phenomenology, aesthetics, and critical infrastructure studies in the interpretation of multiple media. His dissertation, Towards an Ecological Pragmatism: Attitude and Agreement in the Epoch of Deep Mediatization, considers how novels and digital infrastructures mediate our understanding of the world. He holds an M.A. in English from CUNY Brooklyn College, an MLIS from Rutgers University, and a BA from Bowdoin College. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of “Inside the Swarms: Personalization, Gamification, and the Networked Public Sphere,” published in Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).