Research and Evaluation - What We do
What we do
Research
We conduct qualitative and quantitative community-based research projects, design and facilitate program and resource evaluation, and mobilize the findings and recommendations from our research in collaboration with various community, government and academic partners.
Evaluation
We design and facilitate program and resource evaluations to ensure that all our programs, resources and materials are effective and impactful. MediaSmarts’ collaboration with partners is essential to this work.
Policy & Knowledge Mobilization
Our research informs policy development in both the public and private sectors. We mobilize the findings and recommendations from our research and evaluation projects in many ways, including through academic publications, research reports, white papers, blog posts, opinion editorials, public consultations, testifying before parliamentary committees, conference presentations, media interviews, podcasts, infographics and social media.
- Should Warning Labels be Required on Social Media Platforms?
- The impact of Sharenting, MediaSmarts Talks
- What We Do Online Matters, The Walrus Talks at Home
- Seeing Queer Characters in Kid's Media | The Agenda
- How digital literacy can help close the digital divide
- General comment No. 25 (2021) on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment
Collaboration
Research at MediaSmarts would not be possible without community members, organizations, and academic partners who guide and support our work and call on our expertise to return the favour. We sit on many advisory committees for other research projects across Canada and are always looking for new opportunities to collaborate with others in the digital media literacy field.
If you are interested in collaborating with the MediaSmarts research team, please send an email to info@mediasmarts.ca.
- Canadian Sociological Association
- Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University
- Consensual and Non-Consensual Sexting in Adolescence (SSHRC) with Faye Mishna and Betsy Milne from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto
- Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Research Committee,
- SickKids, the Hospital for Sick Children, Engaging Children & Youth in Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Healthcare
- The Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership (SSHRC) with Benoit Dupont and Vicky Desjardins from the Université de Montréal
- YWCA Canada, Project Block Hate