What the tick tock of online regulation says about our digital discourse | CBC Radio

Published: 19 March 2024

March 17, 2024 | In this episode of The Sunday Magazine, Taylor Owen joins a discussion on digital discourse and the future of online safety regulation. The US House of Representatives voted to...

AI and Canada's proposed Online Harms Act | GZERO

Published: 6 March 2024

March 5, 2024 | In this episode of GZERO AI, Professor Taylor Owen takes a look at the Canadian government’s Online Harms Act, which seeks to hold social media companies responsible for harmful...

How we can move forward, now that the divisive Bill C-18 is law | The Globe and Mail

Published: 2 August 2023

July 23, 2023 | In this opinion piece by Taylor Owen and Supriya Dwivedi, they reflect on the passage of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, where the government is hoping that Google and Meta would...

New podcast launches to cover the impact of technology on our democracy during the 2019 Canadian federal election

Published: 5 September 2019

Attention Control with Kevin Newman podcast released its first episodes this week, exploring digital media’s impact on the 2019 federal election....

Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge Winners Announced

Published: 15 August 2019

The Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge has awarded 18 Research Awards ranging from $3,000 to $75,000 to research teams from Canada and abroad. The Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge is a...

Curbing Online Harms | CBC Radio

Published: 23 June 2022

June 20, 2022 | With the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression's new report hot off the press, Commission co-chair and Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen sat down for an interview with...

Stronger government regulation of social media companies could improve free speech, says expert | CBC Radio

Published: 2 May 2022

In an interview with CBC Radio, Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen—who leads the School's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy—opined on the role regulation can play in safeguarding free...

Whose speech will Elon Musk’s Twitter be protecting, exactly? | Globe and Mail

Published: 28 April 2022

April 27, 2022 | Taylor Owen and Supriya Dwivedi of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy write that Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter might strengthen the democratic governance that...

New podcast brings leading research on kids and tech to the mainstream

Published: 10 March 2022

It’s one of the most pressing questions for researchers and families today: How are children affected by digital technology? Parents, caregivers, experts and policymakers are struggling to...

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