Alina Rizwan (FOLLOW DEM #UofTGrad23) was honoured yesterday with a U of T Mississauga Award for Top Program Performers at an event hosted by Principal Alex Gillespie and incoming Dean Nicholas Rule (pictured here with ICCIT Director Sarah Sharma).

Fantastic keynote from Sarah Sharma at #CPCalgary on masculinist media theories of the manosphere and the possibility and promises of a feminist techo-logic. “Tech has a gender problem; gender has a tech problem.”

"Book publishers in the twenty-first century have created a market for white maternal memoirs in which relatively privileged women faux-transgressively confess mixed feelings about motherhood, apolitically." thebaffler.com/latest/the-goo…

ICCIT director Sarah Sharma's "Manifesto for the Broken Machine" inspires a new exhibition at Akademie der Künste. The show features anti-patriarchy art that "fashion[s] alternative worlds through aesthetic narratives of repair." Review by Annalisa Giacinti: berlinartlink.com/2023/06/13/aka…

The Sage Handbook of Human-Machine Communication includes chapters by ICCIT scholars: Jeremy Packer, Kate M Maddalena , beth coleman, Cosmin Munteanu, and Rhonda McEwen (a co-editor). It features media studies, feminist theory, HCI, computer science, robotics, history, & art.

We are especially excited about the symposiums keynote by Sarah Sharma: "Towards a Techno-Feminist Refusal" and more great panels with...

I'm reading the forthcoming book on smart homes by Heather Suzanne Woods and this is passage on "Drop Zones"—special rooms in luxury homes for receiving deliveries—paints a picture of a deranged, anti-social form of life. It is the hyper-modern servants' entrance for gig workers.

On September 21st, DIGS Lab and Media History invite everyone to a talk featuring Sarah Sharma (ICCIT)! Join us for a discussion of a techno-feminist media theory, Big Tech and the gendered politics of utility, exit and repair. Register here: milieux.concordia.ca/event/digs-mhr…

If you're in Toronto this week, go and see this incredibly beautiful and strange portal. It's an ethnography of inventio that asks how ghosts can have voices.

The @iccit's Jeremy Packer, Paula de Villavicencio, and Kate M Maddalena joined coauthors Kathleen Oswald, Alex Monea, and Joshua Reeves to discuss their book, _The Prison House of the Circuit_ (U of MN Press ) as part of Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal's Life in Pixels series University of Notre Dame. U of T Mississauga University of Toronto @researchuoft

Lilia Topouzova (ICCIT/U of T Mississauga/University of Toronto), Krasimira Butseva, and Julian Chehirian's installation "The Neighbours: Forms of Trauma" featured in Toronto's blogTO: blogto.com/events/the-nei…

We are so excited for the first WGSI UofT research seminar of the year on Wednesday, October 4th from 4-6PM ft. the brilliant SA Smythe who will be speaking to Black Mediterranean Freedom Dreams 🌊 Register below 👇🏽 eventbrite.com/e/wgsi-researc…

The ICCIT is hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure stream) in Critical Marketing/Advertising Studies and Digital Culture. Details about the position and guidelines for application can be found in the job call: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

✨NEW BOOK!💫 Feminist AI is out today! Get it 30% off (code ASPROMP8) here: bit.ly/3LMtaR8 Edited by CFI director Stephen Cave, Eleanor Drage, Kerry McInerney and Cambridge Gender's Jude Browne CambridgeGender @ bsky.social @KerryAMcInerney

"Rather than getting caught up in the glare of shiny new tech, ICCIT appraises it in a critical fashion. I am proud to be part of an institute that is consistently at the forefront of social change." Dr. Sarah Sharma's Director's Message: utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/about-ic…

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga is seeking applications for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the area of game studies. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

ICCIT Director Sarah Sharma will talk with Chase Joynt, director and writer, about his most recent book, Vantage Points: on Media as Trans Memoir this coming Sunday at Another Story Bookshop. eventbrite.ca/e/save-the-dat…

The ICCIT is hiring an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Design and Production. Details about the position can be found in the formal job call: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…