Platforms & Media
Municipal Matters: Building Capacity for Local Climate Conversations
This report examines the challenges of communication around local climate action—especially when policies face the spread of false information.
Platforms & Media
Harmful Hallucinations: Generative AI and Elections
This report reveals how technology threatens democratic processes like elections by enabling deception, polluting the information environment, and intensifying harassment.
Platforms & Media
The Peril and Promise of AI for Journalism
Journalists around the world are responding to the dramatic rise of artificial intelligence (AI), and particularly generative AI. Many newsrooms are experimenting with these tools and identifying new opportunities. At the same time, many journalists
Health
Mpox Communications: A Queer Pandemic
Just as most countries lifted Covid-19 measures, another pandemic emerged in the summer of 2022: mpox. Mpox is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus. It is endemic in East, Central, and West African countries.
Health
Responding to Online Abuse: What We Heard from Health Communicators
The pandemic created an unprecedented demand for health communication. This workshop report summarizes insights from a range of health communicators.
Platforms & Media
Platform Governance in Canada: Essay Series
An introduction and set of 16 short essays on platform governance in Canada. Jointly published by the Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy at McGill University and CSDI.
Platforms & Media
Online Hate During the Pandemic
Authors: Dr. Chris Tenove and Dr. Heidi Tworek This paper was funded by a grant from British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC), which holds the copyright. The conclusions in this paper do not necessarily reflect the views
Health
Democratic Health Communications during COVID-19: A RAPID Response
This report recommends how to put health communications at the heart of democracies’ response to Covid-19.
Platforms & Media
Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Online Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics
This report examines incivility on social media in the 2019 federal election campaign and beyond.
Platforms & Media
Digital Threats to Democratic Elections: How Foreign Actors Use Digital Techniques to Undermine Democracy
What digital threats face our democracy? How do they work, and what might be done about them? Read more in this report by Chris Tenove, Jordan Buffie, Spencer McKay, David Moscrop, Mark Warren, Maxwell A. Cameron.