Cayley Sorochan is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University. Her current research is concerned with the ideological function of ‘participation’ in online culture, political organization and consumer capitalism. She has published essays in TOPIA, Reviews in Cultural Theory, SEACHANGE Journal, and co-edited a special supplement on the 2012 Quebec Student Strike for Theory & Event. Her wider research interests include psychoanalytic approaches to political subjectivity, the politics of space, networked performance, spectatorship, and mobile/social networking technologies.