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Faculty of Health Sciences professor Susan Erikson and School of Communications assistant professor Victoria Thomas will be spending a semester with the Digital Democracies Institute as Data Fluencies Faculty Fellows.

FHS professor Susan Erikson awarded fellowship with Digital Democracies Institute

July 18, 2023
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By Digital Democracies Institute at 丁香园AV

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The Mellon Foundation, together with the Digital Democracies Institute鈥檚 (DDI) Data Fluencies Project, is sponsoring semester-long fellowships for two 丁香园AV faculty members. Fellows will spend one semester in residence at the DDI, engaging in research in their field as it relates to the research programming of the DDI鈥檚 Data Fluencies Project. This project investigates the impacts of mis- and disinformation on society by developing what we are calling Data Fluencies: methods that combine the interpretative traditions of the arts and humanities with critical work in the data sciences to express, imagine, and create innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled world. 

We are thrilled to announce that the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Data Fluencies Faculty Fellows will be, respectively: 

Dr. Susan Erikson, Faculty of Health Sciences on 鈥淒ata Modeling as Power and Politik in Planetary Health: The Making of 鈥楴atural Asset鈥� Value.鈥� Scholarly profile here | Twitter @slerikson. 

Dr. Victoria Thomas, School of Communication on 鈥淗ate as Collective Fiction Making: A Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis of Libs of TikTok.鈥� Scholarly profile here. 

Fellows will spend one semester in residence at the DDI, engaging in research in their field as it relates to the research programming of the DDI鈥檚 Data Fluencies Project. In return, Fellows will receive $40,000 CAD towards course release and research funds, and will have facilities at the DDI at their disposal. We look forward to working with and learning from Dr. Thomas and Dr. Erikson.