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Information Literacy and Civic Health: Lessons from Finland
By Jaya Singh After Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö noted a rise in foreign state-sponsored online disinformation and propaganda...
Jaya Singh
Sep 1, 20226 min read


2021 AAA Conference
Multimodal Ethnography as Method for Staying True to Political Engagements and Critical Epistemologies Invited Session - Roundtable /...
Body Online Lab
Jun 24, 20222 min read


Saint or Sufferer?: Challenging Caricatures of Surrogates Transnationally
Kaja Aagaard In 2010, Vaishali Sinha and Rebecca Haimowitz set out to tell the stories of Indian surrogates in a rich documentary about...
Kaja Aagaard
Jun 14, 20215 min read


“Distractibaking”: Kneading Ideas of Comfort and Care
Grace Kellogg On the surface, our kitchen resembled an Instagram-worthy image of a quarantine well spent. Covered in flour and still in...
Grace Kellogg
Mar 7, 20215 min read


2021 Society for Applied Anthropology
TBO members are excited to be taking part in the upcoming 2021 Society for Applied Anthropology conference, March 23-27. If you’re headed...
Body Online Lab
Jan 10, 20211 min read


2020 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture
TBO members participated in a talk about "Critical Play: Experiments in Student Activism and Digital Research" as part of the 2020-21...
Body Online Lab
Nov 18, 20201 min read


From Turmeric Shots to the Chia Café Collective: Critically Rethinking Wellness Culture
Anna Wood This past summer, I was interning at a food access organization in Vermont when I came across a row of bottles in the corner of...
Anna Wood
Nov 17, 20204 min read


Pakistani Feminism and Instagram Models
Amun Chaudhary Pakistani Feminism, much like Pakistani culture, is both rich and layered in diversity. The most recent development is...
Amun Chaudhary
Aug 20, 20203 min read


Body Anonymity in the Culture of Remote Work
Katie van der Merwe The coronavirus has had widespread effects, including enormous consequences on the culture and methods of...
Katie van der Merwe
Aug 20, 20205 min read


2020 TBO Summer Collective
Hosted online in June to August 2020, TBOSC brought together participants from Middlebury College and the University of Toronto to work...
Body Online Lab
Aug 20, 20201 min read


Community Wellness and Social Justice in Online Spiritual Activism
Jaya Singh During these tumultuous times, countless online discussions related to self-help and mental health care have become...
Jaya Singh
Aug 19, 20204 min read


“Hips TikTok when I dance, on that Demon Time she might start an OnlyFans” Sex Work and TikTok
Emma Bernstein Mia Khalifa is potentially one of the most noticeable case studies for the overlap between TikTok, a new social media...
Emma Bernstein
Aug 19, 20203 min read


To Whoever Threw That Tear Gas...
Claire Martens A six second viral video from 2014 gifted us an iconic phrase that many know: “whoever threw that paper, your moms a hoe”....
Claire Martens
Aug 19, 20204 min read


Learning Anatomy Online
Anneliese Mills The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada has had widespread consequences for the organization of health care services and medical...
Anneliese Mills
Aug 19, 20206 min read


Agency and Duplicity Online: A Tale of Two Influencers
Natasha Cuneo In early June, Toronto-based influencers Jessica Mulroney and Sasha Exeter got into a very public showdown. It began when...
Natasha Cuneo
Aug 19, 20204 min read


There is no Black Panther in Brazil
Modele Kuforiji When the film Black Panther was released in Brazil in 2018, Afro-Brazilians garbed in bright African prints gathered to...
Modele Kuforji
Aug 19, 20205 min read


"Let Me Give You Personal Attention":The Multisensorial Experience of ASMR as Feminized Digital Care
Emilly Renaud ASMRtists claim ASMR videos help audiences with anxiety, stress, depression, and insomnia, all serious mental health issues...
Emilly Renaud
Aug 7, 20208 min read


Beyond Food Aesthetics: Food Blogging and the Production of Authorial and Entrepreneurial Selves
Tyentyen Chen AAA/CASCA Presentation Writeup This paper was inspired by my desire to understand the rise of trendy food aesthetics in...
Tyentyen Chen
Aug 7, 20208 min read


Digital Activism and Socially Conscious Online Entrepreneurship Amongst the #WitchesOfInstagram
Jaya Singh
Jaya Singh
Jul 17, 202015 min read


Blackface in the Digital Era
Yasmine Hassen
Yasmine Hassen
Jul 17, 20209 min read
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