About Me

Dr. Lauren J. Dwyer is an Assistant Professor in the Information Design program at Mount Royal University. Her research examines how emerging technologies, including algorithmic media systems, AI-influenced journalism, and social robots, reshape communication, behaviour, and public trust. She investigates how machine systems curate perception, influence autonomy, and reorganize media and design ecosystems.

Before joining Mount Royal, she served as Academic Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics at SAIT, where she developed applied AI education. She earned her PhD in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University, where she explored the communicative and emotional affordances of social robots. Her current work focuses on the politics of information design in algorithmic infrastructures, tracing how they mediate trust, well-being, and collective meaning in contemporary life.