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Faculty of Information at ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Faculty of Information professors and students will have a strong presence at the 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) taking place in San José, Costa Rica next week (November 9-13). CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and […]
Congratulations to our newest grads!
The Faculty of Information celebrated its newest grads on October 30. A total of 105 Master of Information students received their degrees alongside one Master of Museum Studies student and five PhD students. Congratulations to all 112 of our Fall 2024 grads. Photos from the ceremony and reception are now available to browse and download.
As Jackman Fellow, PhD student Hassan Asif will explore underground Islamic media
PhD student Hassan Asif, who has just been named a Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow in the Humanities, plans to use his fellowship to advance his dissertation, which explores the intersection of digital media, remix culture and Islamic devotional music in Pakistan. His project examines the digital remixing of na’at, which are hymns in praise […]
Virtual influencers in three minutes or less
Congratulations to PhD student Julia Jeonghyun Parke, a top 20 finalist in the SSHRC’s 2024 Storytellers Challenge. This annual contest challenges postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better. For her research, Parke tracks the […]
Talking sense into Artificial Intelligence
Every week, the researchers in Assistant Professor Anastasia Kuzminykh’s lab get together to update each other on their work. While they are all investigating human-AI communication, there is a wide range of topics. Some of the students are researching how chatbots like Siri and Alexa are perceived by users. Others are exploring the influence of […]
Congratulations to our seven doctoral graduates
An unusually high number of PhD students will be officially graduating from the Faculty of Information on Wednesday, November 8. Browsing their thesis title gives a taste of the wide-ranging research that takes place at the Faculty. Our newest doctoral degree recipients are: Zachary Batist Thesis: Archaeological Data Work as Continuous and Collaborative Practice Supervisor: […]
Investigating human-powered AI
PhD student Julian Posada’s research into the human workers behind the Artificial Intelligence industry has landed him a tenure track position at Yale Before the pandemic struck, Julian Posada planned to travel to Venezuela to interview the people who do outsourced artificial intelligence work for foreign companies. But disappointed as he was to have to […]