Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy

@mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social

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Our organization examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy. We’re housed at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, and led by Taylor Owen.

Figure 1: The network at a glance: recent, high-volume, and predominantly run from Vietnam.
Figure 6: Map of the major topics among coordinated posts with at least 10 reactions.
Gen(Z)AI final reports. Photo by Lindsay Ralph.
Gen(Z)AI project co-lead, Helen Hayes, moderating a panel on Canadian Digital Regulation with the Honourable Evan Solomon (Minister of AI and Digital Innovation) and the Honourable Marc Miller (Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture). Photo by Lindsay Ralph.
Gen(Z)AI participants, youth fellows, and project leads posing for a group photo with the Honourable Evan Solomon (Minister of AI and Digital Innovation) and the Honourable Marc Miller (Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture). Photo by Lindsay Ralph.
Taylor Owen (Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and the founding director of The Center for Media, Technology and Democracy). Photo by Lindsay Ralph.
Sally Guy (Head of Public Policy and Government Relations, Mila). Photo by Lindsay Ralph.
Helen Hayes (Associate Director, Policy, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy). Photo by Lindsay Ralph.
Peter MacLeod (Founder and Principal, MASS LBP). Photo by Lindsay Ralph.
Figure 7. Shared video titles across inauthentic channels. Inner nodes are near-identical title clusters (Levenshtein similarity of at least 0.90) posted by five or more channels; outer nodes are channels; arcs link each channel to each matching title.
Figure 3. Most viewed inauthentic video thumbnails. Top 16 most viewed video thumbnails from the inauthentic channels.
Source: Media Ecosystem Observatory data from posts shared by Canadian influencers, news outlets and politicians
Source: Media Ecosystem Observatory data from posts shared by Canadian influencers, news outlets and politicians
Figure 3. Who heard David Suzuki’s headline? Demographic breakdown
Figure 2. Climate doomerism expectations in Canada. Demographic breakdown
Figure 1. Climate doom prevalence in Canada. Demographic breakdown
Mediodecci Lustarini, Executive Secretary, Directorate General of Digital Space Monitoring, Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, Indonesia.
Taylor Owen, Founding Director, Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, McGill University.
Craig Silverman (Journalist and Misinformation Expert).
From left: Craig Silverman (Journalist and Misinformation Expert), Iesha White (Director of Intelligence, Check My Ads), David Reevely (Ottawa Correspondent, The Logic).
Vass Bednar (Managing Director, Canadian SHIELD Institute) and Jennifer Quaid (Professor in the Civil Law Section, University of Ottawa).
Vass Bednar (Managing Director, Canadian SHIELD Institute) in conversation with Jennifer Quaid (Professor in the Civil Law Section, University of Ottawa).
Aengus Bridgman, Associate Director of Research, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy and Media Ecosystem Observatory, McGill University.
Anya Schiffrin, Director, media, advocacy and communications program, School of International Affairs at Columbia University.
From left: Murad Hemmadi and Gary Marcus. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Cory Doctorow. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
From left: Justin Hendrix and Miles Taylor. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
From left: Ava Smithing, Meetali Jain, and Megan Garcia. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
From left: Meetali Jain and Megan Garcia. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
From left: Ava Smithing, Meetali Jain, and Megan Garcia. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Professor Fen Osler Hampson. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Catherine Tait and Emily Bell. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Maria Ressa. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Maria Ressa. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Maria Ressa. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Maria Ressa. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Taylor Owen. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Jim Balsillie. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
From left: Jim Balsillie and Taylor Owen. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
Evan Solomon. Photo by Dzesika Devic.
From left: Elizabeth Denham and Claire Atkin. Photo by: Dzesika Devic.
Elizabeth Denham. Photo by: Dzesika Devic.
From left: Jennifer Welsh, Philippe Dufresne, Elizabeth Denham, and Claire Atkin. Photo by: Dzesika Devic.