Media and Technology Studies UAlberta

Master’s grad builds an AI-powered bridge for neurodivergent students Digital humanities master’s graduate Francerlândio Macena da Cruz created an app based on his own research journey called NeuroBridge, designed to help neurodivergent students cut through distraction to overcome executive paralysis.

Congratulations to all the Arts grads walking the stage at Spring Convocation today! 🎓

Your dedication, creativity, and hard work have brought you here, and we can’t wait to see where they take you next! ✨

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Leading up to Arts Convocation tomorrow, we're proud to share stories from the 2026 graduating class 🎓

Media and Technology Studies UAlberta grad Kaetlyn Osmond’s journey to the convocation stage was anything but linear. Following a successful figure skating career — highlighted by three Olympic medals, two World Championship medals and three Canadian national championships — the now retired athlete traded the ice for the chance to take her lifelong passion for the media industry, and turn it into a career.

Read more: https://bit.ly/49J5okZ

Congratulations, Kaetlyn!

The Media and Technology Studies Salon Series presents:

Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multi-Media Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada
A book launch at Audreys Books

Tuesday, June 9
7-8:30 p.m.
Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Ave. Edmonton

Join us for the book launch of Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multi-Media Activism and Gender Based Violence in Canada on Tuesday, June 9 at 7:00 p.m. with author Nicolette Little, in discussion with Dr. PB Berge.

Nicolette Little teaches in the Media and Technology Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies programs at the University of Alberta, and directs its Feminist Collaboratory and Data Visualization Centre. She advises the Canadian government, national media, law enforcement, and not-for-profit organizations regarding media and gender-based violence.

Book signing and light refreshments following the launch.

Event link: https://audreys.ca/events/4961020260609

This National Indigenous History Month, we invite you to go beyond the land acknowledgement and take some time to understand your relationship to the land, treaties, and to the Indigenous communities near you.

Across the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, along with FNS, we take our commitment to treaty and to the 94 Calls to Action seriously and make it a priority not just in June, but year-round.

This , we're amplifying First Nations, Inuit and Métis voices and taking some time to ground ourselves on the land in which we're situated.

From backlot tours to backing up hard drives How U of A digital humanities and computing science researchers are helping preserve Japanese film history and a cherished film landmark in Kyoto.

Join us on Friday, May 22 from 3-4 p.m. in 2-20 A Visualization Room (Digital Scholarship Centre, Cameron Library) for "Indigenous Connectivity: Kinship and Identity in a Digital World", a talk by Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko.

Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko explores the evolving state of Indigenous connectivity and digital participation in Canada, drawing on his work with Indigenous communities, broadband initiatives, and digital equity efforts across Turtle Island and Inuit Nunangat. Through reflections on his journey in the MACT program at the University of Alberta, he considers how technology, governance, education, and community-driven approaches intersect in shaping Indigenous participation in the digital society.

Congratulations to Dr. Persephone Blue (PB) Rivas-Berge for receiving the 2025 Killam Accelerator Research Award! Dr. Blue is cross-appointed in Media & Technology Studies and Women's and Gender Studies and is the co-Director of the Certificate in Computer Games Development. Dr. Blue’s research interrogates how media technologies produce both harm and possibility.

Learn more about Dr. Blue’s research here: https://ow.ly/RTrY50YQHt1