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A group of us from the AML attended Ron Deibert’s talk at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, on November 9. Deibert is the Director of The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at [...]

Comparitech is a company that offers a variety of online services. As part of its corporate citizenship and marketing, it also offers guides for wise internet use. Among those guides is [...]

Four out of ten internet users have experienced online harassment. 88% of teens say that they have witnessed someone being mean to someone else on social media sites. This resource is designed to [...]

One of the most compelling aspects of media studies involves sites of struggle. Sites of struggle are social phenomena that become arenas for changing values and behaviours. They include fashion, [...]

In November, 2018, Jesse—’CBC tech columnist’—Hirsh appeared in his regular time slot on the Metro Morning radio show to comment on Facebook’s long list of ethical missteps, among them failing to [...]

A frequent feature of 21st-century political campaigns has involved researching candidates’ online activities in hopes of finding damaging data that might be used against them.

“I haven’t done anything wrong, so why should I care what information is collected and shared about me?” The privacy crisis is about agency. It’s not just a matter of who owns or shares [...]