Leslie Shade, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

City as platform: smart cities and civic engagement in the data society
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
$243,086
Opening the door on digital privacy: practices, policies, and pedagogies
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$138,464
The equality project
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$2,499,520

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

City as platform: smart cities and civic engagement in the data society

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Coleman, Beth

Keywords: civic engagement; civic imaginary; critical data studies; critical policy studies; data analytics; participatory design; smart cities; urban innovation

$243,086

Opening the door on digital privacy: practices, policies, and pedagogies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lipton, Mark

Keywords: media studies; communication; computer science; digital policy; digital literacy; young adults; 21st century learning; commodification; surveillance; mobility; digital identities; interdisciplinary research; digital storytelling; intermedia storytelling

$138,464

The equality project

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: children and youth; digital literacy; online marketing; online privacy; online equality; cyberbullying

$2,499,520

Clicking to cope: the influence of information and communication technologies on the resilience, social support and school engagement of Canada's sexual and gender minority youth

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Craig, Shelley L.

Keywords: information and communication technologies; sexual minority youth; resilience

$162,334

Feminist and queer approaches to technoscience

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Keilty, Patrick

Keywords: feminist; queer; technology; philosophy of science; colloquia; workshops

$19,452

How the geospatial web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: geospatial web 2.0; governance; web 2.0; user generated content; volunteered geographic information

$2,552,984

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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