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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 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) taking place in Bergen Norway from October 18 to 22, 2025. CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and […]
Examining the impact of greenhouse growth
As Canada’s greenhouse sector expands rapidly, it’s become increasingly reliant on migrant labour to keep crops growing. This development has raised questions about the conditions of migrant workers, as well as new agricultural technologies and their impact on labour and the environment. It’s a field ripe for research, as PhD student Olivia Doggett has discovered. […]
PhD student’s Connaught fellowship supports research into outdoor gig workers
Ashique Thuppilikkat of the Faculty of Information has been named one of 15 doctoral students at the University of Toronto to receive a Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship for 2025-26. The annual fellowships are designed to offer doctoral students the opportunity to explore the world of public scholarship. Fellows focus on engaging the public through their scholarly […]
Four PhD students named Schwartz Reisman fellows
The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society has announced its 2025-26 graduate fellows including four doctoral students from the Faculty of Information. Along with 11 other PhD students from across U of T, they join SRI’s interdisciplinary community dedicated to ensuring that advanced technologies benefit all of society. SRI fellowships support interdisciplinary research that […]
PhD grad, folk star, artist, etc – Camille Intson’s ‘multi-hyphenate’ life
Camille Intson jokingly refers to herself as Hannah Montana, but an even more apt comparison would be Hannah Montana on steroids. The fictional Disney character, after all, has only two personas – rockstar Hannah and regular high school student, Miley Stewart. Intson, in contrast, takes on multiple roles – recent PhD graduate, newly minted professor, […]
PhD student Christine Tran awarded King’s Coronation Medal
Faculty of Information doctoral candidate Christine Tran has been awarded a King Charles III Coronation Medal for the exceptional leadership she provided at Massey College during the pandemic. As Don of the Hall at the time, Tran created a welcoming and inclusive environment for the college’s junior fellows and left a lasting impact, said Massey […]
Woman of influence and PhD student
Jul Jeonghyun Parke tracks social media’s virtual influencers for her PhD thesis. Not only does she check in regularly on the ubiquitous online activities of figures like Shudu, Rozy and Lil Miquela, she also keeps tabs on what their creators are up to. Her research documents both how these non-human influencers have come to wield […]
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 […]