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Kim Sawchuk

Female
E-Mail
kim.sawchuk@sympatico.ca
Telephone
514-848-2424 ext. 2557
Personal website
http://kimsawchuk.com
Interests
Gender Representation, Gender Diversity, Mobile Telephony / Computing, Technology / Technological Change, Software, Free / Open Source, Internet, Community/municipal broadband, Networks, Information Science, Community Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Networks, Feminist media studies

Role(s)
Researcher

Location(s) of Work
Canada

Current Institutional Affiliation(s)


Discipline(s)

  • Communications

Biography

Kim Sawchuk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, the current editor of the Canadian Journal of Communications (www.cjc-online.ca) and Wi: Journal of the Mobile Commons Network (www.wi-not.ca). Her research involves the close study of the relationship between embodiment, social practice and discourses on technology. Kim writes on the politics and culture of health and biomedicine, new media art, and wireless technologies from a feminist, anti-racist perspective. For more information on her current projects in these areas, please feel free to browse this site.

Kim has an unusual passion for methodology, particularly qualitative methods. She has been experimenting with the potential of open source software and multimedia tools for collaborative research and developing research protocols and processes for better understanding how to enhance user participation within locative media projects. This was the focus of her research with the MDCN as one of the leaders of "EMU" (evaluating mobile users) with Barbara Crow of York University. She is currently heading up the user assessment component for a project on "Artifical Agents and Lo-Fi Embodiment" with Nell Tenhaaf and Melanie Baljko from York University.

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