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Western Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Western University is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron peoples, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum. This land continues to be home to diverse Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) whom we recognize as contemporary stewards of the land and vital contributors of our society.
EDID News
- November 14, 2024
3 potential consequences of Ontario's reluctance to deem intimate partner violence an epidemic
The Conversation, November 13 - Health Information Science doctoral student Eden Hoffer discusses the merits of declaring intimate partner violence an epidemic in Ontario.
- October 31, 2024
'A Different Man' examines tensions between personal identity and societal expectations
FIMS PhD Media Studies student Billie Anderson shares her insights on the new film 'A Different Man' and how it pushes the conversation about our perceptions of disability.
- September 11, 2024
Sheima Benembarek joins FIMS as the Fall 2024 Asper Fellow
Author, freelance journalist, and magazine-publishing professional, Sheima Benembarek has joined the Faculty of Information and Media Studies as the 2024 Fall Asper Fellow.
- June 14, 2024
Juan Escobar-Lamanna: The Video Game Industry & Accessibility for Disabled Users
FIMS PhD student Juan Escobar-Lamanna is working to fill in the research gaps looking at how the video game industry can, does, and should include users with disabilities.
- January 29, 2024
Microsoft's ban on third-party controllers on the Xbox excludes some disabled gamers from using the device
PhD student Juan Escobar-Lamanna explores Microsoft's ban on third-party controllers from an accessibility standpoint.
- January 04, 2024
Chase Joynt joins FIMS as 2024 Asper Fellow
Filmmaker, writer, video artist, actor, and professor, Chase Joynt, has been appointed as the Asper Fellow for the 2024 winter term.
- June 29, 2023
Western hosts summer school for academic librarians from Africa
Thirteen academic librarians from 12 countries across Africa visited Western for a week-long bibliometrics and research impact summer school, coordinated and hosted by FIMS.
- May 02, 2023
'Londombia' photo project celebrates the lives of Colombians in London
CBC News, May 1 - FIMS instructor Juan Bello is heading an upcoming photo exhibit celebrating London's Colombian community and their history in the city.
- December 15, 2022
Pacinthe Mattar named the Winter 2023 Asper Fellow
FIMS is pleased to announce that Pacinthe Mattar, award-winning journalist and recent Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, has been named the next Asper Fellow in Media.
- November 21, 2022
FIMS PhD students and Western Libraries help launch Media Library in El Salvador
The Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador project is working in collaboration with Centro Arte para la Paz (CAP) in Suchitoto, El Salvador, to create a Mediateca, a digital space for the preservation of historical media.
- October 24, 2022
Local radio hosts recognized with an honorary university degree
Long-time radio hosts, activists and teachers Dan and Mary Lou Smoke tell London Morning about their careers in broadcasting and what receiving an honorary degree from Western University means to them.
- September 22, 2022
Governments' use of automated decision-making systems reflects systemic issues of injustice and inequality
The Conversation - In 2019, former UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston said he was worried we were "stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia."
- September 02, 2022
New faculty member set to explore research-creation
As the Faculty of Information & Media Studies welcomes the inaugural class for the Creative Arts & Production major this September, the FIMS community is also excited to announce the addition of a new faculty member set to teach in the program.
- July 21, 2022
There is no structure in art because art is free - and that is why art is remembered
Research Profile: How do you dismantle a system built on patriarchal, heteronormative settler-colonial ideologies? You use feminist, queer and colonial work to think differently about these systems.
- July 11, 2022
Advancing Social Justice in an Age of Datafied Governance
Joanna Redden and Alison Hearn are part of a team of researchers recently awarded SSHRC funding to pursue questions about the use of Artificial Intelligence or Automated Decision Support by government services.
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