Faculty at the ICCIT research the relationship between humans and technology. Whereas most academic departments are organized by a shared discipline, we are disciplinarily diverse. We bring a variety of theoretical orientations, philosophies, and methodologies to human-technology problems. Because we gather around a shared problem rather than a shared discipline, the breadth of our academic scope is immense. Technology is embedded in human activity in almost every realm: health & medicine, business & finance, gender, race, sexuality, identity, writing & journalism, science, environmentalism, space exploration, activism, class & labour, marketing & public relations, political economy, interpersonal communication, family, war, play, and education.
Though we study almost every kind of human activity through a diversity of disciplines, faculty at the ICCIT share three basic assumptions that emerge from rigorous research in the humanities and social sciences. (1) The relationships between humans and technologies are not monolithic, simple, or self-evident. (2) These relationships, because they are so complicated, must be constantly questioned, re-described, challenged, and re-designed. (3) Humanity's trajectory—its future as a species —is bound up in its relationship to technology.
Meet Our Faculty
Our faculty’s research is featured regularly in major Canadian and international media outlets, appears in high-impact academic journals, and garners prestigious grants and awards. As members of a multi-disciplinary unit, ICCIT faculty approach problems from more than one perspective. Find out more about our faculty's latest research news here.
Faculty Research & Activities
Published Books
Podcast Features
Academic Publications
News Articles
Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan
by Sarah Sharma, Rianka Singh
Clear, Precise, Direct: Strategies for Writing
by Duncan Koerber and Guy Allen
The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon
by Alessandro Delfanti
The Prison House of the Circuit
by Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, and Joshua Reeves
Being Material
by Marie-Pier Boucher, Stefan Helmreich, Leila W. Kinney, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill
Biohackers: The politics of open science
by Alessandro Delfanti
Disconnect:
Facebook’s Affective Bonds
by Tero Karppi
Communication Matters:
Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks
by Jeremy Packer, Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
by Beth Coleman
In the Meantime:
Temporality and Cultural Politics
by Sarah Sharma
Integrating Cognitive Architectures into Virtual Character Design
by Jeremy Owen Turner, Michael Nixon, Ulysses Bernardet, and Steve DiPaola
Introduction to Digital Media
by Alessandro Delfanti, Adam Arvidsson
Killer Apps:
War, Media, Machine
by Jeremy Packer, Joshua Reeves
Media and Management
by Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen, Melissa Gregg, and Marc Steinberg
Mobility without Mayhem:
Safety, Cars, and Citizenship
by Jeremy Packer
New Media Unions:
Organizing Digital Journalists
by Nicole S. Cohen, Greig de Peuter
Super-sticky Wechat and Chinese Society
by Yujie Chen; Zhifie Mao;Jack Linchuan Qiu
Reckoning with Social Media: Disconnection in the Age of the Techlash
by Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, Tero Karppi
Undoing Networks
by Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst, and Lea Zierott
Visual Futures:
Exploring the Past, Present, and Divergent Possibilities of Visual Practice
by Tracey Bowen and Brett Caraway
Ensuring “compassion” is at the core of compassionate dialysis screening (featuring ICCIT's Olga Bountali)
Resoundingly Human Podcast
The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism (featuring ICCIT's Sarah Sharma)
Theorizing the Web Podcast
The Spark Guide to Civilization, Part Four: Attention (featuring ICCIT's Sarah Sharma)
Spark with Nora Young
Lego, Robots, and Homesickness: Reflecting on Nostalgia (featuring ICCIT's Kate Maddalena)
The Medium/The Message
Loblaw’s PR response to consumer criticism shows it prioritizes profit over people
by ICCIT's Dan Guadagnolo
Published 2/22/2023
Femcels: Inside the enigmatic subculture of involuntary celibate women
by Sarah Do Couto featuring ICCIT's Brett Caraway
Published 2/2/2023
Loblaw’s PR response to consumer criticism shows it prioritizes profit over people
by ICCIT's Dan Guadagnolo
Published 2/22/2023
Femcels: Inside the enigmatic subculture of involuntary celibate women
by Sarah Do Couto featuring ICCIT's Brett Caraway
Published 2/2/2023