• Not Everyone Is a Target: An Analysis of Online Identity Crime Victimization Using Routine Activities Theory 

  Zaslawski, Zina

  This study examines online identity theft, consumer fraud and phishing victimization using data from a national survey of Canadians. The goal is to answer the following questions: (1) Is everyone equally likely to be a ...

• SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP AND SEXUAL DISSIDENCE: QUEERING MOTHERHOOD IN TURKEY 

  Baba, Habibe

  This dissertation examines the ties of kinship and affinity in the lives of sex or gender non-complying individuals, or sexual dissidents, in Muslim contexts in an era globally marked by the racialization of Islam, the ...

• Patient Perspectives of Robotic Interaction in Healthcare: A Case Analysis of the Kinarm Robot in Brain Function Analysis 

  Upton, Paige

  The Kinarm assessment, which is the focus of my study, is a robotic standardized assessment tool that measures brain function and memory in elderly patients. The Kinarm assessment remakes bodies in the process of turning ...

• Successful Aging with Illness 

  Carver, Lisa

  In twenty years almost one in four Canadians will be over the age of 65. How successfully these people age will influence their quality of life and contribute to their physical health. Illness and disease are frequent ...

• CLASHES IN CONFINEMENT: MEN’S GENDERED EXPERIENCES WITH CONFLICT IN CANADIAN PRISONS 

  Horton, Alicia

  This dissertation presents the results of in-depth qualitative interviews with twenty-three formerly imprisoned men regarding their lived experience with prison conflict and the pain of incarceration. The results suggest ...

• The Reproduction of Social Disadvantage in South Africa: mapping consumer credit scoring onto the ANC’s policy of ‘social transformation’ 

  Singh, Sachil (2016-11-01)

  South Africa has the continent’s most sophisticated banking and credit systems with approximately 19 million credit-active consumers. Their credit profiles are based on automated algorithmic assessments that generate data ...

• RE-MEANING THE SACRED: COLONIAL DAMAGE AND INDIGENOUS COSMOLOGIES 

  Watts, Vanessa (2016-10-03)

  Indigenous ways of knowing are dependent on an inheriting process both amongst humans and between human and non-human being. These multi-relationships cross material and immaterial borders as sites of knowledge production. ...

• Autonomy-Oriented Social Movements and the Politics of Affect 

  Spink, ERICA (2016-09-27)

  Abstract This dissertation explores damaging tendencies that exist within autonomy-oriented activism in the West. I examine how affect shapes the way that internal conflict is approached and internal strife is dealt ...

• The Open Data Smart City: A Case Study of Smart City Progress through Open Data Initiatives 

  Alaimo, Vincenzo (2016-09-23)

  Smart cities, cities that are supported by an extensive digital infrastructure of sensors, databases and intelligent applications, have become a major area of academic, governmental and public interest. Simultaneously, ...

• Disability in the Digital Age: Reconfiguring Access, Inclusion and Equality 

  Saltes, NATASHA (2016-09-20)

  There is an abundance of research that examines disability and technology in the context of computers and the Internet, however few have examined disability and mobile devices. Also largely absent from existing literature ...

• Surveillance Studies and the Surveilled Subject 

  Saulnier, Alana (2016-05-19)

  Surveillance studies has been somewhat inattentive to the perspective of the surveilled subject. It is the functioning of the surveillance apparatus, not the relatively inconsequential subject, which has tended to frame ...

• Capital Building at Camp: A Bourdieusian Analysis of a Summer Camp for Marginalized Girls 

  Macquarrie, Isabel (2016-05-02)

  This study employs a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to investigate capital building at Skylight—an overnight summer camp for girls seven to fifteen who have experienced trauma and/or abuse. Using participant observation ...

• Labour, Heritage, and the Politics of Difference: Working Class History Museums in the Changing City 

  DesRoches, Davina (2016-04-15)

  As a contemporary communications medium, the museum has undergone significant reinvention and reorientation of purpose within the past several decades. While the late twentieth century saw the rise of a fundamental reimagining ...

• Intimate Partner Violence against Women: An Examination of Spousal Abuse and Maternal, Child Health and Economic Outcomes in Ghana 

  Cofie, Nicholas (2016-01-05)

  While research suggests that context, structural socioeconomic and cultural factors matter in intimate partner violence research, quantitative research on the subject in sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular Ghana, has ...

• The Social Reorganization of Polar Science: Responding to Cryospheric Change in the International Polar Year 2007-2008 and Beyond 

  Vardy, Mark (2015-11-09)

  While the natural sciences have convincingly argued for the reality of anthropogenic climate change, the social sciences have not paid sufficient attention to how knowledge of climate change becomes real through social ...

• Deceptive Deeds Done With UAVs: A Democratic Deficit in Canada 

  Mansour, Mark J. (2015-10-13)

  In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), known colloquially as drones, have proliferated throughout North America. Canada, in particular, has been favourable to the growth of the UAV market. Given that this topic ...

• A Problem of Corporate Convenience: A Case Study of the GM Ignition Switch Recall 

  MacNeil, Ryan (2015-10-06)

  In light of the overwhelming harm caused by General Motors and its failure to recall defective vehicles for nearly a decade, this thesis explores the GM ignition switch recall and the numerous errors and omissions that ...

• Resisting Alienated Labour Through Hacking: The Case of Free and Open Source Software 

  Ramsay, Mark (2015-10-03)

  Despite the growing dependence we have developed upon an array of computer-based technologies, technology in and of itself is not the cause of alienated conditions of labour. Rather, it is the cultural context within which ...

• Manufacturing Ideologies of the "Bad" Mother in Ontario Child Welfare 

  Veenstra, Mandi (2015-09-22)

  In Canada, under the guise of austerity measures, the state is increasingly distancing itself from the responsibility of helping families raise their children (Vandenbeld Giles 2012; Walmsley and Tessier 2015). This ...

• The New Political Economy of Policing: an Exploration of the Militarization of Policing in the United States 

  Pereira, Colby (2015-09-14)

  Public perceptions of policing in the United States have drastically shifted in the last decade as images of police brutality have dominated the media. This thesis asks whether or not the militarization of policing in the ...

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