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...
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2021 AAA Conference
Multimodal Ethnography as Method for Staying True to Political Engagements and Critical Epistemologies Invited Session - Roundtable /...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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”....
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Learning Anatomy Online
Anneliese Mills The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada has had widespread consequences for the organization of health care services and medical...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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Blackface in the Digital Era
Yasmine Hassen
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