The KMDI is excited to partner with the Faculty of Information on the official launch of the GLAM Incubator. The GLAM Incubator aims to connect Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums with university researchers, industry partners,Continue reading
Category: Research News
Latest KMDI-Semaphore research publishes and events.
New KMDI Study Examines How Academics Use TikTok, the Benefits and the Perils
In a bid to shine a spotlight on their research and make it more accessible, academics around the world are following in the footsteps of their students and taking to TikTok to share videos. The trend isContinue reading
New Network Supports Black Scholarship and Excellence
KMDI research collaborator, Professor Beth Coleman from the Faculty of Information and the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at U of T Mississauga is the inaugural Director of The Black Research Network, aContinue reading
KMDI Director, Professor Sara Grimes Releases New Book, “Digital Playgrounds”
“Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games“, explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped children’s commercial digital play spaces over the past twoContinue reading
Rhonda McEwen – The Power of Touch
When Professor Rhonda McEwen learned that her daughter was on the autism spectrum, she began to think about communications technology in new ways A casual conversation led to Professor Rhonda McEwen’s home life and workContinue reading
Creative Hubs Database – A Networking Dream for Researchers, Creative Workers and Funders
Over the last few years, with the support of KMDI, SSHRC and the University of Toronto Connaught New Researcher program, KMD-CS Director, Professor Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Luka facilitated the creation of the Creative Hubs andContinue reading
The MEME Project: Applying Multimedia Emergent Mapping to Education
Cartography and mapping are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in many spheres, including education. Today’s cartography relates to both analogue and digital environments, extending to participatory collaborations with individuals from a variety of knowledge communities, with growingContinue reading
A Personal Narrative of Nina Czegledy’s Latest Artistic Endeavors
It has been my privilege to be a long term KMDI Fellow. My relationship with the people of the institute has helped to sustain my research and creative activities over the years. It is inContinue reading
KMDI Partners with Bonham Centre’s Sexual Representation Collection to Digitally Archive Adult Film History
The preservation and study of adult film history entail a number of challenges. The material often falls outside of the collecting and preservation mission of traditional libraries and archives. This may be a result ofContinue reading
Rhonda McEwen, Director of the Sensory Information Processing Lab Appointed Special Advisor on Anti-Racism and Equity
Growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, U of T Mississauga associate professor Rhonda McEwen didn’t know what it was like to be a minority. Most of the people in her life, including her neighbours, universityContinue reading
The KMDI Pivots to Online in Response to COVID-19: A Message from KMDI Director Sara Grimes
As we start the new semester and new school year, I wanted to take this opportunity to say welcome, as well as acknowledge that this year we are coming “back to school” during an incrediblyContinue reading
Semaphore PhD Student Helps Build a More Egalitarian Internet
Jack Jamieson wants to help build a better, more egalitarian internet – in effect, helping to realize the vision of the technology’s early pioneers. The PhD candidate in the KMDI-Semaphore research institute at the UniversityContinue reading
Semaphore Post-Doctoral Student Explores Virtual Reality As A Microbiology Teaching Aid
Imagine being inside an E. coli bacterium, smaller than a speck of dust and surrounded by genetic material, molecules and proteins. This could soon be commonplace for some microbiology students thanks to work by University of Toronto researchersContinue reading
Interview with Professor Sara Grimes: The Franklin Lecture and Ursula Franklin Working Group
Who is Ursula Franklin, and what does she represent? Ursula Franklin was a scholar, a scientist and an activist. She conducted research and taught at the University of Toronto for over 40 years and wasContinue reading
Kids DIY Media: Best Practices for Designers Report
Sara Grimes, Director KMDI-Semaphore Reports: Best Practices for Designing Connected, Digital DIY Media Platforms for Kids I am so very happy to finally share with the world key results from our Kids DIY Media Partnership —Continue reading
Indigenous-led lab at the University of Toronto Launches App to Report Pollution in Chemical Valley
The Technoscience Research Unit is launching an app that begins to address some of the pollution data gaps in Canada’s Chemical Valley. The Pollution Reporter App will be available for download on the Apple andContinue reading
Ryerson Professor Jenna Jacobson – How Semaphore Supported her Academic Journey
“You can do a PhD on social media?” Yes…I actually did, and my colleagues at Semaphore researched other non-traditional topics such as video games, 3D printing, touch technologies, and virtual reality. I’m Jenna Jacobson, anContinue reading
Digital generation: U of T Researchers Work with UN to Support Children’s Rights Online
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information are holding a series of workshops with children to better understand how they use digital technology – information that will be shared with the United NationsContinue reading
KMDI Alumni Matt McPherson Builds Digital Humans
Would-be entrepreneurs enrolled in a business of software course at the University of Toronto are being asked to play God in the digital realm. The theme for the course, offered by the department of computerContinue reading
How Does Social Media Affect Teenage Female Athletes?
There are teenagers everywhere. They sit in the bleachers, damp in layered clothes, munching on dried mango and Cliff bars. It’s the final session of our three-day swim meet and these adolescent female athletes haveContinue reading