Jonathan Cinnamon

Dr. Jonathan Cinnamon is an Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies at UBC Okanagan. As a digital geographer with training in human geography and geographic information science, Dr. Cinnamon’s overall research goal is to examine how digital geographic data, technologies, and forms of representation shape the human experience.

Empirically, Dr. Cinnamon’s work has two main strands. First, he investigates how grassroots, corporate, and government actors conceive of and deploy digital data and technology. This work has advanced conceptual and empirical knowledge of digital injustice, big tech dataveillance, and grassroots data activism. Second, he develops novel digital and visual methods for data collection and analysis in human geography, demonstrating new ways to capture, represent, and analyze geographic space. This work comes together through two current SSHRC-funded projects focusing on experimental digital urbanism in Canada, and the impacts of digital platformization in global cities.

Dr Cinnamon received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in 2013. Prior to joining UBC Okanagan, he was a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, ON) and the University of Exeter (Exeter, UK), and held visiting positions at Wits University (Johannesburg, South Africa), and Ohio State University (Columbus, OH).

Dr Cinnamon is Co Editor-in-Chief of Digital Geography and Society.

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