For Stakeholders
Policy Briefings
Birch, K. (2023) Personal Data Governance in the Big Tech Era: What is Happening to Our Personal Data?, ITS Policy Briefing #01-2023.
Policy Reports
Birch, K. (2023) There Are No Markets Anymore: From Neoliberalism to Big Tech, in State of Power 2023 Report, Amsterdam: The Transnational Institute.
Birch, K. and Adediji, D. (2023) Rethinking Canada’s Competition Policy in the Digital Economy, ITS Policy Report #01-2023.
For Academics
Books
Adelman, D., Brock, A., Dial, A., Dinkins, S., Fouché, R., He, H., Nagy, J., et al.(2025)Peer-reviewed Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, Stanford University Press, here.
Birch, K. (2023) Data Enclaves, London: Palgrave Macmillan, here.
Birch, K. and Muniesa, F. (eds) (2020) Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, open access.
Gehl, R. W. (2025). Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media. Oxford University Press.
Gehl, Robert W., and Sean Lawson. “Automated Masspersonal Social Engineering.” In The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture, edited by Leopoldina Fortunati and Autumn Edwards, 119–32. De Gruyter, 2024. here.
Juhasz, A., Langlois, G. and Shah, N. (2021) Really Fake, Minneapolis: Meson Press, open access.
Lightman, B. and Sera-Shriar, E. (eds.) (2024) Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Mosby, I., Rotz, S. and Fraser, E. (2020) Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet, Regina: University of Regina Press, here.
Steigerwald, J. (2019) Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, here.
Tienhaara, K. and Robinson, J. (eds.) (2022) Routledge Handbook on the Green New Deal, New York: Routledge, here.
Tilleczek, K. and Campbell, V. (eds) (2019) Youth in the Digital Age: Paradox, Promise, Predicament, Abingdon: Routledge, here.
Topak, Ö.E., Mekouar, M. and Cavatorta, F. (eds) (2022) New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, here
Widmer, A. (2023) Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, here.
Journal Articles
Allan, K. & Robinson, J. (2022) Working Towards a Green Job? Autoworkers, Climate Change and the Role of Collective Identity in Union Renewal, Journal of Industrial Relations 64(4): 1-23, here.
Andrews, K., & Monsó, S. (2025). Does comparative cognition have a WEIRD problem?. Journal of Comparative Psychology. Advance online publication, here.
Andrews, K. (2022) Does the sentience framework imply all animals are sentient?, Animal Sentience 32(17), open access.
Artyushina, A. (2020) Is civic data governance the key to democratic smart cities? The role of the urban data trust in Sidewalk Toronto, Telematics and Informatics 55: 1-13, here.
Bergstrom, K. (2022) When a door becomes a window: using Glassdoor to examine game industry work cultures, Information, Communication & Society, 1-16, here.
Birch, K., Komljenovic, J., Sellar, S. and Hansen, M. (2025) Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership in EdTech startups, Learning, Media & Technology 50(1): 15-28, here
Birch, K., & Adediji, D. (2025). Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy. Big Data & Society, 12(1), here.
Birch, K. (2024) Assetization as a mode of techno-economic governance: Knowledge, education, and personal data in the UN’s System of National Accounts, Economy & Society, open access.
Birch, K., Marquis, S., & Silva, G. C. (2024). Understanding Data Valuation: Valuing Google’s Data Assets. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, here
Birch, K. (2023) Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation, Social Studies of Science 53(1): 29-48, open access.
Birch, K. and Ward, C. (2024) Assetization and the new asset geographies, Dialogues in Human Geography, open access.
Blacker, S. (2022) Technologies of quiescence: Measuring biodiversity, ‘intactness,’ and extractive industry in Canada, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 8(2): 1-25, open access.
Blacker, S., Kimura, A. and Kinchy, A. (2021) When Citizen Science Is Public Relations, Social Studies of Science 51(5): 780-796, open access
Charette, M., & Schaffzin, G. (2025). The intersectional implications of a quantitative epistemology in pain care and research. Canadian Journal of Pain, 8(20), here
Cairney, P., Corrin, T. and Kennedy, EB (2024). “The Production and Utility of Evidence Synthesis During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: Perspectives of Evidence Synthesis Producers.” Evidence & Policy. here
Desai, S., Mutsuddi, R., & Astell, A. (2024) Enhancing Prompt Perception in Dementia: A Comparative Study of Mixed Reality Cue Modalities, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 6: 1419263, here
Douglas, C. M., & Grunebaum, S. (2024) Lessons learned from the Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative for future risk-sharing and managed access agreements for pharmaceutical and advanced therapies in Canada, Health Policy 143: 105044, here
Douglas, C. M. (2023) International Experiences and Made-in-Canada" Social Pharmaceutical Innovations" as Responses to Challenges Facing Drugs for Rare Diseases, Healthcarepapers 21(1): 66-72, here
Douglas, C.M., Aith, F., Boon, W., de Neiva Borba, M., Doganova, L., Grunebaum, S., and Kleinhout-Vliek, T. (2022) Social pharmaceutical innovation and alternative forms of research, development and deployment for drugs for rare diseases, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 17(1): 1-13, open access.
Duncan, E., Rotz, S., Magnan, A. and Bronson, K., E. (2022) Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetization, Sociologia Ruralis 62(2): 231-249, here.
El Morr, C. (2024). The Need for a Feminist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 4(1), 332-333, here
Fitzpatrick, S. and Andrews, K. (2022) Animal culture and animal welfare, Philosophy of Science 89(5): 1104-1113, here.
Freiman, Ori (2022). Making Sense of the Conceptual Nonsense 'Trustworthy AI'. AI and Ethics 4, open access.
Gebresselassie, M., & Baljko, M. (2025). Accessibility of third-party transit apps and the role of transit agencies and their open data. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 32, 101504, here.
Gebresselassie, M. (2024). Labor issues from the perspective of drivers on the Uber and Lyft apps and the impact on riders who use wheelchairs. Travel Behavior and Society, here.
Gebresselassie, M. (2024). Why app-hailed transportation remains inadequately accessible to wheelchair users. Disability & Society, here.
Gebresselassie, M. (2022) Wheelchair users’ perspective on transportation service hailed through Uber and Lyft apps, Transportation Research Record, open access
Goldstein, D. and Kennedy, E.B. (2021) Mapping the ethical landscape of wildland fire management: Setting an agendum for research and deliberation on the applied ethics of wildland fire, International Journal of Wildland Fire 31(10): 911-917, open access.
Hadlaw, J., Windover M.(2025). DX Marks the Spot: Linking and Interpreting Artefacts,of the former Design Exchange Collection. Scientia Canadensis 45, no. 2 special issue on The Material Culture of Science and Technology in Canada, here
Hamidi, F., Owuor, P.M., Hynie, M. and Baljko, M. (2022) "Knowledge comes through participation”: Understanding disability through the lens of DIY assistive technology in Western Kenya, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6(CSCW1): 1-25, here.
Hamm, E. (2012) Mining history: People, knowledge, power, Earth Sciences History 31: 321-326, here.
Harvey, A., Chung, E., & Fisher, S. (2025). “Situating and sustaining feminist action: lessons from digital games inclusivity organizing.” Feminist Media Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2025.2493114
Harvey, A., Shepherd, T., Rudnicka-Lavoie, D. and Mohabir, E. (2025). “Best Practice or Buzzword? The Opportunities and Challenges of Mentorship for EDI in Creative Technology.” Diversity & Inclusion Research, 2(2), http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70017
Harvey, A. (2021) Making the grade: Feminine lack, inclusion, and coping strategies in digital games higher education, New Media & Society 24(9): 1986-2002, here.
Harvey, A. (2019) Becoming gamesworkers: Diversity, higher education, and the future of the game industry, Television & New Media 20(8): 756-766, here.
Hassan, Y. (2024). Machine Learning as a State-building Experiment: AI and Development in Africa. In C. Borch & J. P. Pardo-Guerra (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning. Oxford University Press, here.
Hassan, Y. (2024). The Politics of Memory: NLP Models as Liberating Artifacts. Science, Technology and Society, 09717218241282551, here.
Hassan, Y. (2022) Governing algorithms from the South: a case study of AI development in Africa, AI & Society, open access.
Hassan, Y. (2020) The politics of sharing: Sociotechnical imaginaries of digital platforms, Information Polity 25(2): 159-176, here.
Howson, P., Rosales, A., Jutel, O., Gloerich, I., Llorens, M. G., de Vries, A., Crandall, J. & Dolan, P. (2024). Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones. Political Geography, 103210, here.
Karpin, I. and Mykitiuk, R. (2021) Reimagining disability: the screening of donor gametes and embryos in IVF, Journal of Law and the Biosciences 8(2): lsaa067, open access.
Komljenovic, J., Birch, K., Sellar, S., Bergviken Rensfeldt, A., Deville, J., Eaton, C., ... & Williamson, B. (2025). Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(2), 276-29, here
Komljenovic, J., Birch, K., & Sellar, S. (2024). Monetising Digital Data in Higher Education: Analysing the Strategies and Struggles of EdTech Startups. Postdigital Science and Education, 6(4), 1196-1215, here
Komljenovic, J., Sellar, S., & Birch, K. (2024). Turning universities into data-driven organisations: Seven dimensions of change. Higher Education, 1-18, here
Langlois, G. (2022) Cosmomedia: Natural dyes in Japan, Media Theory 5(2): 289-306, open access.
Laywine, N. (2024) All that glitters: extraction as communication in international voluntourism practice, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1–20. here
Laywine, N., Simon V. & Sinnreich, A. (2024) Laughing to Keep From [User Input Undefined]: ChatGPT, Jewish Humor, and Cultural Erasure, First Monday 29(7), here
Lightman, B., & Luk, C. Y. (2024). One Hundred Years of Internationalizing the History of Science. Isis, 115(3), 455-480.
Lim, E., Lisker, M., Hess, L., Engeler, M., Friedman, L., Lingel, J., & Ali, M. U. (2025). Abolish privacy. First Monday.
MacDonald, M.E., Burton, N., Aseffa, F., & Toole, J. (2024) Equity in Care: Midwifery in Ontario during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice. 23(1): 89-103, here.
MacDonald, M. and Foley, E. (2022) The innovation imperative in global health: gendered futurity in the Sayana Press, Medicine, Anthropology, Theory 9(2): 1–15, open access.
Ma, K.W.F. and McKinnon, T. (2022) COVID-19 and cyber fraud: emerging threats during the pandemic, Journal of Financial Crime 29(2): 433-446. open access.
MacDonald. M (2020) Misoprostol: The social life of a life-saving drug, Science, Technology & Human Values 46(2): 376-401, here.
Martin, A. and McMillan, A. (2022) Concussion killjoys: CTE, violence and the brain’s becoming, BioSocieties 17: 229–250, open access.
Meijering, T., & Rosales, A. (2025). Bitcoin as Tool for Financial Inclusion in El Salvador: The Perils of Authoritarian Governance. Journal of Politics in Latin America, here
Mialet, H. (2020) How dogs become accurate instruments: care, attunement, and reflexivity, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7: 66, open access.
Mialet, H. (2022) The body in balance: Making sense of sensation, Body & Society 28(3): 89-113.
Miroshnichenko, A., & Birch, K. (2024). Constructing digital assets through blockchain technologies? Unpacking the techno-economic configuration of non-fungible tokens. Social Studies of Science, here
Murphy, N…Ott, M. et al. (2024, advance online).Ethical issues in normothermic regional perfusion in controlled organ donation after determination of death by circulatory criteria: A scoping review. Transplantation, 109(4), 597-609, here
Nagaraj, S. et al. (2020) From clinic to computer and back again: Practical considerations when designing and implementing machine learning solutions for pediatrics, Current Treat Options in Pediatrics 6: 336-349, open access.
Nairn, A. (2019) The Evolution of Social Constructs: A Proposal for the Re-Conceptualization of Sociobiology for Understanding Interdependent Social Networks as Evolving “Organisms.” Using Norbert Elias’s, The Court Society, Journal of Big History, 2(4), 61-76, open access.
Ott, M., Dengler, L., Hibbert, K., & Ott, M.C. (2025). Fixing disconnects: Exploring principled adaptations to a competency-based curriculum. Medical Education, 59(4), 428 – 438, here
Ott, M., Murphy, N., Lingard, L., Slessarov, M., … & Weijer, C. (2024). Sowing “seeds of trust”: How trust in normothermic regional perfusion is built in a continuum of care, American Journal of Transplantation, here
Pinto-García, L. (2025). Maraña: War and Disease in the Colombian Jungle. University of Chicago Press, here.
Pinto-García, L. (2025). Unnecessary Adversaries Amidst War: Biomedical and Non-Biomedical Approaches toLeishmaniasis in Rural Colombia. In M. A. Duarte da Silva & C. Lynteris (Eds.), Rural Disease Knowledge: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives (pp. 200–222). Routledge.
Reynolds, J.L., Kennedy, E.B. and Symons, J. (2022) If deliberation is the answer, what is the question? Objectives and evaluation of public participation and engagement in science and technology, Journal of Responsible Innovation, open access.
Robinson, J. (2020) Building a Green Economy: Advancing Climate Justice through Labour-Environmental Alliances, Mobilization 25(2): 245-264, here.
Rotz, S. et al. (2019) Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities, Journal of Rural Studies 68: 112-122, open access.
Shaw, J.D. and Mykitiuk, R. (2022) Jurisgenerative tissues: Sociotechnical imaginaries and the legal secretions of 3D bioprinting, Law Critique, here.
Skaala, Ø., Harvey, A., Borgstrøm, R., Fjeldheim, P. T., Andersen Fjeldheim, K. C., Winterthun, S., ... & Glover, K. A. (2025). Migration phenology and population status of Atlantic salmon and sea trout are confounded by stronger environmental changes. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 82(6), fsaf101, here.
Raney, T., Spicer, Z., & Stedman, I. (2025). Addressing Councillor-Perpetrated Sexual Violence in Local Governments: A Case Study of Ontario, Canada. State and Local Government Review, 0160323X251339427.
Stedman, I. and Brudno, M. (2021) Trust, tort law and the integration of black box artificial intelligence into clinical care, Health Law in Canada Journal 42(2): 57-79, open access.
Stephens, L., Epstein, I., Baljko, M., & Smith, H. (2024). Micropolitics in Participatory Processes: The Impact of Ableism and Other ‘Hidden’Power Structures on Equitable Participation and Outcomes. Planning Theory & Practice, 25(4), 548-566, here
Topak, Ö. E. (2025). Authoritarian Surveillance Trends: Structural Racism and Transnationalism. Surveillance & Society, 23(1), 117-122.
Topak, Ö. E. (2024). Bio/Necropolitical Capture and Evasion on Africa–Europe Migrant Journeys. International Political Sociology, 18(4), olae039.
Topak, Ö. (2019) Humanitarian and human rights surveillance: The challenge to border surveillance and invisibility?, Surveillance & Society 17(3/4): 382-404, open access.
van Beinum, A. (2024). Rethinking human–technology relations: exploring the sociopolitical dimensions of invasive brain stimulation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1-11, here
Watts, F., Nairn, A. & Petersen, A. (2022) Science, Religion, Culture, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 57(4): 838-848.
Widmer, A. (2021). Positioning human microbiome DTC tests on the search for health, data and alternatives amid the financialisation of life, Medicine Anthropology Theory 8(2): 1-12, open access.
Wolf-Meyer, M. J., & Elliott, D. (2024). A Brief History of the Ethnographic Fieldnote and Its Possible Futures. In Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing (pp. ix-xxii). University of Minnesota Press.
Wolf-Meyer, M. J., & Elliott, D. (2024). Fieldnote Confessions. In Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing (pp. xxiii-xxxviii). University of Minnesota Press.
Book Chapters
Artyushina, A. (2023) Can a smart city exist as commons?, in D. Frischmann, M. Madison and M. Sanfilippo (eds) Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons, pp.55-80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, here.
Bronson, K., Rotz, S. and D’Alessandro, A. (2021) The human impact of data bias and the digital agricultural revolution, in H. James Jr (ed.), The Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, here.
Gehl, R., and Lawson, S.(2024). Automating Mass personal Social Engineering. In Fortunati, L. and Edwards, A. (eds.) The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture. (119-132) De Gruyter.
Gehl, R., and Lawson, S.(2024). Masspersonal Social Engineering and the Evolution of the Influence Industry. In Emma Briant and Vian Baker (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry. (83-96) Routledge.
Gordon, K., Sooknanan, V., Emembolu, I. Gouglas, S. Harvey, A., Weststar, J. and Whitson, J. (2024). Building Equitable and Sustainable Game Development Education. In Daniel Harley & Gerald Voorhees (Eds.), ADE for Games: Approaches to Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Games Research and Creation, (pp. 42-48). Play Story Press.
Hamidi, F., Hynie, M., Korntheuer, A., & Baljko, M. (2025). The View from Elsewhere: Investigating Infrastructural Inequities at the Intersection of Disability and AI-enabled Interactive Technologies. In C. El Morr, Y. El-Lahib, & R. Gorman (Eds.) Beyond Tech Fixes Towards an AI Future where Disability Justice Thrives, Springer.
Harvey, A. (2024). Diversity. Routledge Resources Online: Screen Studies, Sarah Atkinson. London: Routledge.
Harvey, A. (2024). There’s Nothing Written About It’: Disciplinarity, Regionality, and the Ghosts Haunting Game Studies. In Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur & Emma Vossen. (eds.) Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be. Punctum.
Lightman, B. (2022) The ‘Greatest Living Philosopher’ and the useful biologist: How Spencer and Darwin viewed each other’s contributions to evolutionary theory, in I. Hesketh (ed.), Imagining the Darwinian Revolution, pp.37-57. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, here.
Lightman, B. (2022) The nineteenth-century origins of the problem: Naturalistic metaphysics and the dead ends of Victorian theology, in P. Harrison and P. Tyson (eds), After Science and Religion, pp.35-58. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Lim, E., Kaur-Gill, S., & Kantachote, K. (2024). 22 Subaltern Digital Cultures: Precarious Migrants on TikTok. The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice, 205.
Mialet, H. (2020) Becoming the other: The body in translation, in D. Gruber and L. Olman (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science, pp.375-384. London: Routledge, here.
Mykitiuk, R. (2020) Accommodation in the academy: Working with episodic disabilities and living in between, in C. Spivakovsky, L. Steele and P. Weller (eds), The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community, pp.73-86. Oxford: Hart Publishing, here.
Schaffzin, G. (2022) From efficiency to pain: A history of the visual analog scale, in R. Goyal and A. Hegele (eds), Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in Medical Humanities, London: Bloomsbury, here.
Schaffzin, G. (2023) The face-based pain scale: A tool for whom?, in E. Guffey (ed.), After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution, London: Bloomsbury, here.
Williams, J.W. (2020) Recidivists, rough sleepers, and the unemployed as financial assets: Social impact bonds and the creation of new markets in social services, in K. Birch and F. Muniesa (eds), Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, pp.297-312. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, open access.