The Civic Media Lab supports research, teaching, and innovation on the relationship between media, new technologies, civic life, and social justice. We currently focus on four research areas, although projects are often sited across categories:
Fostering understanding of national and global contexts and the digital skills to promote understanding and co-existence amongst communities of different ethnicities or religions
Keywords: cultural studies, race studies, gender and sexuality studies, Islamophobia, far-right radicalization
Research on the relationship between digital tools, civil societies, and democratic practices
Keywords: digital democracy, activism, advocacy, misinformation, algorithmic studies, privacy and surveillance studies
Creation and research in the areas of new media art, hacking/critical making, sound, and listening
Keywords: media art, creative coding, critical making, sound and music studies, film and screen studies, visual culture
Studying the relationship between sensory experiences, their mediation, and community building, value-making, cross-cultural dialogue
Keywords: sensory studies, taste lab, anthropology of food