Trauma-Informed Facilitation and Digital Media Literacy Education

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Overview

In this interactive workshop, presenters from MediaSmarts – Canada’s centre for digital media literacy- will share key learnings and best practices in implementing a trauma-informed lens in digital media literacy education and facilitation. We’ll walk participants through our trauma- and violence-informed facilitation handbook developed as part of the Resilience through DigitalSmarts program. The handbook provides a guide to trauma- and violence informed facilitation practices with a focus on online facilitation and program delivery. While the handbook is grounded in the context of digital media literacy education for survivors of technology-facilitated violence and abuse, it is useful for a wide range of projects, organizations, and individuals who want to introduce a trauma-informed approach in their program facilitation. This workshop will end with an interactive activity in which attendees will apply the six key trauma-informed principles highlighted in the handbook to their current projects or facilitat

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.