A5036236623- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Ethics in medical practice
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Marriage and Sexual Relationships
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Sex work and related issues
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Unity Health Toronto
2023-2024
St. Michael's Hospital
2024
University of Waterloo
2017-2023
North Carolina State University
2023
The ability of governments and nations to handle crises protect the lives citizens is heavily dependent on public's trust in their related social institutions. aim present research was understand public government during a time crisis, drawing interview data (N = 56) collected COVID-19 pandemic (2021). In addition general (n 11), participants were sampled obtain diversity as it relates identifying First Nations, Métis, Inuit 7), LGBT2SQ+ 5), low-income 8), Black Canadians young adult...
This panel offers a reflection on the evolution and transformations of apps app studies over past decade, emphasizing how have seamlessly integrated into our daily routines shaped cultural economic landscape. process, known as ‘appification’, involves integrating various aspects life activities mobile applications, fundamentally altering we communicate, access information, make payments, use digital services (Dieter et al., 2019; Goggin, 2021; Morris Murray, 2018). Research in has evolved...
Vaccine hesitancy exists on a continuum ranging between complete adherence and refusal due to doubts or concerns within heterogeneous group of individuals. Despite widespread acknowledgement the contextual factors influencing attitudes beliefs shaping COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, qualitative research with equity-deserving groups, accounting for unique lived experiences, remains gap in literature. We aim identify begin understand document by groups as it relates relationships government health...
There is growing academic interest in the leisure spaces of online dating as a specific avenue technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV). Yet, limited attention paid to survivors' experiences and understandings intermediated by apps. Using feminist standpoint theory an intersectional lens, in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 current former app (e.g. Tinder, Grindr) users diverse identities backgrounds who previously experienced violence. Sexual was found take multiplicity forms...
Abstract Context The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited a commitment from the health policy and services research communities to rebuilding trust in healthcare created renewed appetite for measures of system monitoring evaluation. aim present paper was develop multidimensional measure that: (1) Is responsive conceptual methodological limitations existing measures; (2) Can be used identify systemic explanations lower levels equity-deserving populations; (3) design evaluate interventions aiming...
We propose the concept of algorithmic heteronormativity to describe ways in which dating apps’ digital architectures are informed by and perpetuate normative sexual ideologies. Situating our intervention within affordance theories grounding analysis walkthroughs several popular (e.g., Tinder, Bumble, Hinge) interfaces, promotional materials, ancillary media, we identify four ideologies—gendered desire, hetero homonormativity, mononormativity, shame—that manifest specific features, including...
Abstract Newcomers to Canada have been disproportionally affected by COVID-19, with higher rates of infection and severity illness. Determinants may relate social structural inequities that impact newcomers’ capacity follow countermeasures. Our aim was describe document factors shaping acceptance COVID-19 Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted individuals living in for <5 years. Participants asked discuss their pandemic experiences, perceptions measures. Five themes...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and exacerbated inequities in health for structurally marginalised Canadians. Their location on society's hierarchies constrained their ability to access healthcare follow recommended behaviours. aim of this article is identify, from the perspective populations, factors influencing acceptance or rejection countermeasures by Interviews were conducted with Canadians 18 + who identified as Black (n = 8), First Nations, Métis, Inuit 7) low-income (<40,000 annual...
Vaccine hesitancy–the reluctance to receive recommended vaccination because of concerns and doubts about vaccines–is recognized as a significant threat the success programs has been associated with recent major outbreaks vaccine-preventable diseases. Moreover, association between complementary alternative medicine (CAM) use vaccine hesitancy and/or refusal frequently reported in literature. To date, gaps persist our understanding contemporary Canadian CAM providers’ beliefs regarding how...
Canadians and Quebecers increasingly consult complementary alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners in parallel with biomedical providers. The close relationship between vaccine hesitancy CAM use remains under explored Western countries. We present the results of a qualitative study conducted among one Quebec's most used approaches: naturopathy. Using Boholm Corvellec's relational theory risk to illustrate naturopaths' construction vaccination as an "object risk", we describe how health...
In recent years, location-based real-time dating apps like Grindr and Tinder have assumed an increasingly pivotal role in brokering socio-sexual relations between men seeking proven to be fertile ground for the study of identity negotiation impression management. However, current research has given insufficient consideration how various contextual elements technology use interact with one another shape self-presentation behaviour. Through analysis interview data, we found construction on...
Geo-social networking applications (GSNAs) like Tinder and Grindr are popular tools for connecting with people romance, sex, other purposes, particularly among sexual minorities. This paper draws on narrative interviews 13 bisexual persons (5 cisgender men, 6 women, 2 trans/nonbinary persons) to explore their GSNA use, including motives gratifications, relational dynamics, implications individual identities cultural understandings of bisexuality. Participants presented complex ambivalent...
This article reflects upon and provides updates to appnography as a methodology for the study of dating digital app culture. Based on empirical fieldwork in-depth nterviews with members research team, we re-assess re-map appnography’s original five methodological considerations—digital versus “real,” profiles, space, place, community, contextualization, temporality—along two axes: design considerations user considerations. We also add third axis, researcher considerations, features expound...
While gender-based differences in consumer behavior have been previously investigated within the context of gender-neutral or unisex retailers, men’s women’s retailers remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, most studies frame retail environment as a passive platform through which essential gender yield setting-specific bifurcated behavior, and do not address role commercial establishment shopping habits play identity formation maintenance. To this gap, we analyzed using interactionist...