Research Groups: Institutes, Labs and Centers

Centre for Culture and Technology

The Centre for Culture and Technology is dedicated to theoretical, aesthetic and critical inquiry into the ways contemporary media shape contemporary forms of experience and our prospects for living together and relating to one another in an interconnected world. The Centre’s inquiry is dedicated not only to contemporary media and its effects, but also to the contemporary critical approaches necessary for understanding our media: feminist, queer, decolonial, and antiracist.

Affiliated faculty members

Beth Coleman headshot

Beth Coleman

Associate Professor

Wendy Duff

Professor

Patrick Keilty

Associate Professor

Thy Phu

Professor

Sarah Sharma

Professor

Recent News

CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025

Faculty of Information at CHI25: Top international conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Faculty of Information professors and students will have a strong presence at the 2025 ACM  (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2025 is taking place in Yokohama, Japan from April 26 to May 1, bringing together researchers, practitioners and industry leaders to […]

Cover of the Sharing Healthcare Data Report

Prof Guha co-authors report on how to improve healthcare data sharing

Assistant Professor Shion Guha has co-authored a new report calling for action to improve healthcare data sharing. Focused on actionable recommendations to improve healthcare, the report identifies key strategies for establishing trust, promoting equity and navigating the evolving regulatory landscape of AI in healthcare.   The report, which was released in February, grew out of […]

A photo of the Six Nations Council House taken in the early 20th century

Activating Indigenous photographic history at Deyohahá:ge: 

As Indigenous histories have been systematically erased, many First Nations’ analog records remain uncatalogued and inaccessible. These physical artifacts, including important films and photographs, are particularly at-risk for degradation and loss.  Given that archives hold the evidence of history and that the histories we know are the histories available to us, the Faculty of Information’s GLAM […]

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 […]