{"id":2,"date":"2020-06-24T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research-itsdev\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:54:22","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute for Technoscience &#038; Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2025\/10\/ITS-Homepage-banner-new-1024x266.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2025\/10\/ITS-Homepage-banner-new-1024x266.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2025\/10\/ITS-Homepage-banner-new-400x104.png 400w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2025\/10\/ITS-Homepage-banner-new-1536x399.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2025\/10\/ITS-Homepage-banner-new.png 1878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: Zoran Svilar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column border-lg border-primary px-3 py-4 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div style=\"height:18px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Monthly Virtual Seminar Series for this Winter (12:00pm - 1:30pm)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 22, 2026 \u201cCounting\u00a0herons, photographing melting ice: Public participation in climate change research.\u201d with Dr. Sarah Blacker.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More information coming soon and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/connections-collaborations\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/events\/\">here<\/a> when available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email <a href=\"Techsoc@yorku.ca\">Techsoc@yorku.ca<\/a> with any questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Welcome to the Institute for Technoscience &amp; Society!<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our goal is to create a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary research and information about the relationship between technoscience and society. We want to support excellent research on this relationship, especially on the configuration of social, political, and economic power underpinning scientific claims, medical practices, emerging technologies, sites of innovation, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to get involved in the Institute, then please get in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact: techsoc@yorku.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.kb-advanced-slider-2_ebb516-47 .kb-slider-size-fixed .kb-advanced-slide-inner-wrap{min-height:1px;}.kb-advanced-slider-2_ebb516-47 .kb-advanced-slide-inner-wrap{padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.kb-advanced-slider-2_ebb516-47 .kb-slider-pause-button{color:#000;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);border:1px solid transparent;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-advanced-slider kb-advanced-slider-2_ebb516-47 carousel-quote wp-block-kadence-slider\"><div class=\"kb-advanced-slider-inner-contain kb-adv-slider-html-version-2\"><div class=\"kb-blocks-advanced-carousel kt-blocks-carousel kt-carousel-container-dotstyle-dark\"><div class=\"kb-blocks-advanced-slider-init kb-slider-loading kb-blocks-slider kt-carousel-arrowstyle-blackonlight kt-carousel-dotstyle-dark kb-slider-size-fixed kb-slider-type-slider kb-slider-ratio-12-5 kb-slider-group-arrow kb-slider-arrow-position-center kb-slider-tab-ratio-inherit kb-slider-mobile-ratio-inherit splide kb-splide  kb-slider-version-2\" aria-label=\"Slider content\" data-slider-center-mode=\"true\" data-slider-type=\"slider\" data-loop-type=\"loop\" data-columns-xxl=\"3\" data-columns-xl=\"3\" data-columns-md=\"3\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\" data-slider-anim-speed=\"400\" data-slider-scroll=\"1\" data-slider-fade=\"true\" data-slider-arrows=\"true\" data-slider-dots=\"true\" data-slider-hover-pause=\"false\" data-slider-auto=\"false\"  data-dragging=\"true\" data-slider-speed=\"7000\" data-slider-gap=\"30\" data-slider-gap-tablet=\"30\" data-slider-gap-mobile=\"30\" data-slider-gap-unit=\"px\"><div class=\"splide__track\"><ul class=\"splide__list\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-slide kb-advanced-slide-item kb-slide-2_8c3ad4-1a\"><div class=\"kb-advanced-slide\"><div class=\"kb-advanced-slide-inner-wrap kb-slide-align-left kb-slide-valign-middle\"><div class=\"kb-advanced-slide-inner\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2024\/12\/MaryOttHeadshots-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1625\" style=\"width:167px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2024\/12\/MaryOttHeadshots-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2024\/12\/MaryOttHeadshots-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2024\/12\/MaryOttHeadshots-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edu.yorku.ca\/edu-profiles\/index.php?mid=2177798\">Dr. Mary Ott <\/a>is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at 快播视频. Drawing on sociomaterial, posthuman, and complexity orientations, she explores the agency of space, time, and materials in curriculum design and pedagogy. A current focus is on understanding the unintended consequences of technology in teaching and learning. Mary completed her PhD in curriculum studies at Western University with a focus on multiliteracies, and postdoctoral work in health sciences education in the Schulich School of Medicine &amp; Dentistry, Western University. She also holds an appointment as a centre researcher in the Centre for Education Research &amp; Innovation at Western.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-slide kb-advanced-slide-item kb-slide-2_f3f2ae-44\"><div class=\"kb-advanced-slide\"><div class=\"kb-advanced-slide-inner-wrap kb-slide-align-left kb-slide-valign-middle\"><div class=\"kb-advanced-slide-inner\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2025\/12\/Fenella-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2272\" style=\"width:167px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fenella Amarasinghe is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education. Her dissertation draws on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt to consider the ways that ethics is pedagogically constituted in engineering education. Fenella previously taught the first-year common engineering course on ethics, communication and problem solving at Lassonde School of Engineering and she developed ethics curricular content for undergraduate engineering programs at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is also a Research Assistant for a cross-institutional research project that investigates students' perceptions and experiences of the Technological Stewardship Practice Program and the concept of Tech Stewardship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>We recognize that many Indigenous Nations have longstanding relationships with the territories upon which 快播视频 campuses are located that precede the establishment of 快播视频. 快播视频 acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and M\u00e9tis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ITS is committed to maintaining a safe and equitable space. We recognise that technology, medicine, and science have long histories of excluding women, racialized minorities, sexual minorities, disabled communities, Indigenous peoples, and other historically marginalized communities. 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