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Feeding My Family: How are Individuals using Social Media in the context of supporting Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Northern Canada?
Download2020-08-25
In this day and age, digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become an instrumental tool that people around the world can use to share and exchange information faster and more efficiently. There is no doubt that digital ICTs support more efficient and productive...
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New voters, new platforms: How first-time Generation Z voters used social media in the 2019 Canadian federal election
Download2020-07-01
Low levels of civic participation and political engagement among young people are persistent problems in many Western democracies, including Canada. Young voters are increasingly less politically aware and less likely to vote, and demonstrate lower levels of civic awareness than previous...
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2015-01-01
SSHRC Awarded Knowledge Synthesis grant 2015: The dominant form of energy of any given era shapes the characteristics and capacities of societies in an essential way; energy is a key aspect of the fabric of our social experience, and not just a neutral input that helps run the engines of our...
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2023-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: "Paper Lives, Post-Digital Connections" will explore the unlikely, and vibrant, connection of paper journals to digitally connected international communities devoted to journaling, particularly by members of Gen-Z, on the social media platforms they use the most:...
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09/16/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: "Reading for Our Lives" is a project that investigates the following questions: 1) Why readers turn to memoir to understand the world, 2) what kind of life narratives are present in their social media posts, 3) what role do social media platforms play in shaping readers’...
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2012-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Our project examines the reconfiguration of feminist activism in and for the 21st century through digital technologies. We do so in a case study of German "popfeminist" protest and performance art culture. The objective is to interrogate how the "Do it Yourself" (DIY)...
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2015-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: The objective of this project is to study and improve fundraising strategies. We will focus on what influences giving, in particular, the impact of involvement with the charity, fundraiser events, and the influence of social media. The proposed research will bridge the gap...
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2014-10-06
SSHRC Awarded IG awarded 2015: We will explore how sharing-breadth influences consumers' emotions. We suggest that, compared to narrowcasting (sharing with few others), broadcasting (sharing with many others) changes the perspective, or the lens, through which consumers view their sharing, from...