Todd Suomela's List: OIISDP 2013 Speakers

"My research investigates the uses of technology and the effects of technology on society.

Key areas of investigation include:
Social networks/Social media/Digital social capital
Digital humanities/Ebooks/Scholarly digital communication
Internet studies/Social media/Computer-mediated communication
Serendipity/Chance Encounters/Opportunistic Discovery of Information & People "

"Patrick Keilty holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies, concentration in Women's Studies (now Gender Studies), from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has previously been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has received additional education at the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University; the Art Center College of Design; and the California Rare Book School. He teaches courses on culture and technology, gender and sexuality, metadata, critical theory, and knowledge structures. "

Barbara Crow

"Professor Crow is the Interim Dean and Associate Vice-President Graduate. Her research interests are in the social, cultural, political and economic implications of digital technologies. She has edited collections on mobile technologies, US radical feminism, and Canadian Women's Studies. She has worked on a number of large-scale interdisciplinary grants with engineers, designers, artists and communication scholars to produce technical and cultural content for mobile experiences, (MDCN, 2004-2007 and CWIRP, 2006-2008). She is one of the co-founders of the Mobile Media Lab, co-founding editor of wi: a journal of mobile media, and was the president of the Canadian Women's Studies Association (2002-2004). Her most recent SSHRC project is "Senior and Cells" with Professor Kim Sawchuk."

"Jeremy Hunsinger holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. He is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research agenda analyzes the transformations of knowledge in the modes of production in the information age. His current research project examines innovation, expertise, knowledge production and distributions in hacklabs and hackerspaces."

"Dr. Sara M. Grimes is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, and Visiting Professor in Book and Media Studies at the University of St. Michael's College.

Sara researches primarily in the areas of children's digital media culture(s), play studies and critical theories of technology, with a special focus on videogames. Sara has published work exploring the commercialization of children's virtual worlds and online communities, the articulation of a critical theory of digital game play, discussions of intellectual property and fair dealing in digital game environments, as well as the legal and ethical dimensions of marketing to children online. Her work has appeared in journals such as New Media & Society, The Information Society, The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, Media International Australia and Communication, Culture & Critique, as chapters in edited volumes, as well as various magazines and blogs. She has also presented her research at a number of national and international conferences, workshops and festivals.

Sara teaches courses on children's cultural texts and artifacts, digital game studies, research methods, and the social and cultural dimensions of social media technologies."

"Rhonda McEwen is an Assistant Professor at the iSchool, University of Toronto. She holds an MBA in IT from City University in London, England, an MSc in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in Information from University of Toronto. Dr. McEwen's research and teaching centres around information practices involving new media infrastructures, with an emphasis on social media design, mobile communication, and assistive technologies for communication and peer interactions. She has worked and researched digital communications media for 15 years, both in companies providing services and in management consulting to those companies. McEwen is currently researching the use of iPod and iPad devices by non-verbal autistic children for communication and sociality in a Toronto school setting."

"Leslie Regan Shade's research focus since the mid-1990’s has been on the social and policy aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), with particular concerns towards issues of gender, youth and political economy. Her research promotes the notion of the public interest in ICT policy; publications, community outreach and student supervision have as their goal the promotion of a wider popular discourse on information and communication policy issues and media reform in Canada and internationally for a diverse public and policy audience. This includes an ongoing commitment to building participatory scholar-activist networks."

Barry Wellman

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