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Megan Boler
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Latest funding
- $99,959
The "Wicked Problem" of AI: Facilitating Participatory and Cross-Sector Imaginaries of Ethical AI
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $249,492
Rebuilding Public Trust after COVID-19: Examining Public Health Measures and Their Impacts on Disadvantaged Communities
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $126,760
"Digital Dissenters and Polarized Politics: Affect, Identity and Social Media in the U.S. and Canadian Elections"
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
The "Wicked Problem" of AI: Facilitating Participatory and Cross-Sector Imaginaries of Ethical AI
Principal investigators: Boler, Megan
Rebuilding Public Trust after COVID-19: Examining Public Health Measures and Their Impacts on Disadvantaged Communities
Principal investigators: Lemmens, Trudo
Keywords: disability law and policy; public health law and policy; public health ethics; health governance; vaccine policy; human rights; community engagement; health equity; infectious disease; public health communication
"Digital Dissenters and Polarized Politics: Affect, Identity and Social Media in the U.S. and Canadian Elections"
Principal investigators: Boler, Megan
Keywords: social media; emotion; xenophobia; race; propaganda; elections; ideology; politics
Affect, propaganda and political imagination: new directions for interdisciplinary research
Principal investigators: Boler, Megan
Keywords: emotion; politics; democracy; computational propaganda; communications; social media
GLOBAL LANDSCAPE - Safeguarding democracies: an interdisciplinary synthesis of digital media studies and the politics of emotion to understand identity, belonging and trust in the post-truth media landscape
Principal investigators: Boler, Megan
Youth, Bytes, Copyright: Investigating Young Canadians' Encounters with Digital Copyright
Principal investigators: Burwell, Catherine
Keywords: copyright; youth; digital media; user-generated content; remix culture; media education; qualitative research
Sociable media in the hands of young citizens evolving forms of participatory democracy
Principal investigators: Boler, Megan
Keywords: digital media; communications; youth studies; civic participation; social networking sites; democracy; social movements; information technology; political theory; popular culture; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; civic education. equity; global justice
Teaching and learning high school philosophy in Ontario schools
Principal investigators: Norris, Trevor
Keywords: philosophy; teacher education; philosophy of education; adolescent development; thinking; curriculum theory; curriculum development; democratic theory; citizenship education; youth; ethics; metaphysics; epistemology; diversity; postmodernism; pragmatism
Digital economy trading zones interactional expertise and the role of public, private and academic values
Principal investigators: Ratto, Matt V.
Keywords: public-private-academic cluster; digital media; games; space; geo-location; urban; identity; sensors; physical computing; social implications
Voices from digital natives: informal learning and sociable media in child and youth cultures
Principal investigators: Nolan, Jason
Keywords: social technology; internet; children; youth; new media; gaming; informal learning
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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Profile data last refreshed on September 26, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.