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

Matt Ratto with PPE during Covid

Research with real-world impact

An interview with Matt Ratto, Associate Dean, Research  As a professional faculty founded almost a century ago to train librarians, the Faculty of Information has long engaged in research inspired by the practical needs of people using libraries to access information. This orientation has persisted as the Faculty has expanded to include, first, archival and […]

Montage of jazz album covers

Jazz Journeys with Alan Stanbridge

For the vast majority of working jazz musicians, the metaphor of the journey has profoundly real implications. It is perhaps unsurprising then, writes Professor Alan Stanbridge in Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, that the theme of travelling has featured extensively in the history and discourses of jazz, in ways that often blur or conflate the real, the fictional and the metaphorical. These […]

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Crosstalk Series 2024-25

Join the Faculty of Information’s Crosstalk Series, an informal weekly speaker series in which two faculty members discuss their current research, look for common themes and answer questions from the audience. Learn about diverse research in the field of Information, uncover ‘hidden’ connections and encourage crossectoral collaboration within the Faculty. All students, staff and faculty […]

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 […]