Best practices in digital empowerment and literacy skills for survivors

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Overview

In this session, presenters from MediaSmarts- Canada's centre for digital media literacy - will share key insights and learnings from our four-year intervention research project titled Moving On: Digital Empowerment and Literacy Skills for Survivors (MODELSS). This project adapts, delivers, and evaluates digital media literacy resources for practitioners in the violence against women (VAW) sector and survivors of family violence. We will share key findings from our program evaluation and best practices for: 1) designing and implementing an iterative program evaluation; and 2) developing digital media literacy programs for survivors of violence

Speakers

Dr. Kara Brisson-Boivin

Dr. Kara Brisson-Boivin is the Director of Research at Mediasmarts, Canada’s Centre for Digital Media Literacy. Kara is responsible for the planning, methodology, implementation, and dissemination of key findings from original MediaSmarts’ research studies as well as evaluations of MediaSmarts’ programs. Kara researches the various impacts of digital technology and culture on digital citizenship, digital well-being, and online resiliency for Canadians broadly and youth in particular. Kara works with a number of academic partners on tri-agency funded research projects, private and public sector groups, as well as federal departments on online issues including; digital equity and inclusion, digital well-being and online resilience, privacy, online hate, mis/dis information, and algorithms and artificial intelligence. Kara brings to MediaSmarts extensive publication experience in academic journals, magazines, news op-eds and research blogs; and a background in presenting research to key stakeholders on parliamentary committees, at academic conferences, invited talks, panels, keynote addresses, and in media interviews.

Khadija Baig

Khadija Baig is a Research and Evaluation Associate at MediaSmarts. She is responsible for supporting the entire research process: conducting literature reviews, preparing research ethics’ applications, designing qualitative and quantitative research instruments and mixed-methods studies, designing and conducting internal program evaluation, conducting statistical (quantitative) and thematic (qualitative) analysis of data, writing research reports, and knowledge dissemination. Khadija holds a Master of Computer Science (M.C.S) degree from Carleton University, Ottawa. She is also a Research Associate at CHORUS (Carleton’s Human Oriented Research in Usable Security), from the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. Khadija brings extensive research and publication experience to our team and she has designed, lead, and collaborated on research involving usable online privacy and security. Her research interests include: the privacy complications of DNA (genetic privacy), the privacy of vulnerable populations, accessible privacy and security, and the spread of antagonistic content online.

Vanessa Turyatunga

Vanessa Turyatunga (She/Her) is a Research and Evaluation Associate at MediaSmarts. She is responsible for supporting the research process: conducting literature reviews, preparing research ethics’ applications, designing mixed-methods studies, designing and conducting internal program evaluation, conducting statistical (quantitative) and thematic (qualitative) analysis of data, writing research reports, and knowledge dissemination. Vanessa holds a master's degree in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa and is currently completing her PhD in Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa. She brings extensive publication and knowledge mobilization skills, as well as interdisciplinary, community-based and participant-focused research and program coordination experience to the MediaSmarts research team. Vanessa's research interests include participatory action research, empowerment-based research methods and trauma- and violence-informed digital media literacy education.