Author Archives: meganboler

On November 13 we convened a three-hour Summit with delegates from thirty 2SLGBTQ organizations from across Canada, a key element of our Queering Digital Tools Project, funded by the Canada Heritage Digital Citizen Contribution Program, which has been underway since February. The aim of the Summit was to solicit feedback and insights regarding how 2SLGBTQContinue reading “Queering Digital Tools Summit!”

I am delighted to have been awarded a 2024-25 Grant from the Digital Citizen Contribution Program of Canadian Heritage, titled Queering Digital Tools Against Hate: Countering 2SLGBTQI Mis-/Disinformation with Community-Informed Digital Stories, Gamification, and Resources (PI, M. Boler; co-investigator Dr Mark Lipton University of Guelph; community partner Egale Canada), of $290,000. This project examines andContinue reading “Research Project Updates!”

At long last, our research essay drawn from our multi-year research project funded by Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: “Digital Affect Culture and the Logics of Melodrama: Online Polarization and the January 6 Capitol Riots through the Lens of Genre and Affective Discourse Analysis” is now published in Social Media and Society https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228584Continue reading “Just published by Social Media + Society!”

Delighted to share a new essay, “Cruel, Convenient, and Intimate Publics: Berlant’s Lessons for Loneliness and Digital Media Commons“, co-authored with Ali Azhar, in a Special Section ‘Lauren Berlant and Media Theory‘, edited by Carolyn Pedwell & Simon Dawes on of the open access journal Media Theory (December 2023).

Had an amazing time attending two conferences in San Francisco this February– Creating Change 2023 which ran Feb 17-21, organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force, and the San Francisco Writers Conference (Feb 15-18, 2023). It was amazing going back and forth between the two venues, from workshops on publishing to panels on Education asContinue reading “Networking in SF Bay Area: Creating Change Natl LGBTQ Conference and SF Writers Conferences!”

How social media echo chambers influence your emotions and your political compass An expert explains how Facebook lives on psychology, politics and your attention, by Megan DeLaire, Dec 22, 2020 “The fact that we no longer have privacy in the digital sphere means our political system is increasingly being run by algorithms, by social mediaContinue reading “Boler in Media”

Trump would have done ‘terrible damage’ in second term: Political experts in Canada sound off on the future of U.S. politics under Joe Biden, Kamala Harris “Once disinformation or misinformation goes out, the opportunity to correct it is extremely difficult,” Boler told Yahoo Canada. “Even if people do see that correction, a very small percentage tendContinue reading “Boler in Media, Biden Wins, November 7”

Some of my least incendiary remarks regarding Twitter’s 11th hour decision to finally suspend Trump from Twitter (Global TV National News January 8):

Megan Boler, Professor, SJE OISE and Elizabeth Davis, PhD Candidate, SJE OISE editors, The Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda By Other Means (Routledge 2021) Wednesday December 2, 2020 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. EDT  Register through Zoom: https://oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuqqrTwsG9JDgYJPM6E6xtRdBTgdzaSd Join us for a presentation and discussion of the U.S. election, the rise of (digital) fascism, and the shifting discoursesContinue reading “Join us this Wednesday Dec. 2! “The Least Racist Person in this Room”: Digital Affect, the U.S. Election, and the Upside Down of Identity Politics”