Prof. @UofTInfoFaculty & @CSI_UofT. 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🎥 🖥️ 🐈

Toronto and Los Angeles
Joined May 2017
We are thrilled to announce a new book series on Adult Film and Media, published by @IntellectBooks, edited by Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty, Darshana Sreedhar Mini. More information here: intellectbooks.com/adult-fil…
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Erika Lust wrote a very good, smart book about being a pornographer in the 21st century. Thank you @latimes and Marc Weingarten for taking it seriously and asking relevant questions. A lesson for other outlets. @erikalust latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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Spooky season special: The Library is home to the sole surviving nitrate print of the first film adaptation of "Frankenstein," produced in 1910 by the Edison Manufacturing Company! Watch the full film and learn how it came to the Library. ⬇️ blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/11/th…
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Big news!📰 For the first time, #UofT Libraries is providing FREE digital access to @globeandmail & @nytimes for current @UofT students, faculty, librarians & staff. News, podcasts, recipes, games & more... all at your fingertips. Learn more & register: uoft.me/UTLnewsaccess
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Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde!
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“We experience writing as a way of transmitting an author’s state of mind, or set of emotions, to our own,” Louis Menand writes. But, today, digital systems can generate replicas of sentences that sound just like the authors we love. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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“The purpose of punctuation is to make writing easier to read,” Louis Menand writes, “and making writing easier to read means giving greater and greater numbers of people access to the written word.” A new book by Florence Hazrat, celebrating punctuation in all its forms, makes the striking claim that the history of punctuation is the history of humanity itself. It has entered into a class of books about the mechanics of writing—to which Sarah L. Kaufman’s “Verb Your Enthusiasm” belongs. But how do we think about these sentences, words, and marks amid a current evolution in the phenomenology of reading? Authors like Hazrat and Kaufman want us to understand reading as a bodily experience, one which can transmit an author’s state of mind, or set of emotions, to our own. Menand considers the strange power of, among other things, punctuation: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UV…
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The GLAM Incubator @UofTInfoFaculty has announced its Call for Projects for 2026. Deadline is October 30. Check it out! glam.ischool.utoronto.ca/?pa…
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The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of @DollyParton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
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Are we nearing the end of Toronto’s strip club era? theglobeandmail.com/gift/e4b…
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As more and more students begin using A.I. to complete assignments, professors across the country are changing their approach—and losing their hope. “My emotional response to all this is hard to describe, something between disgust and despair,” a history professor writes. “Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?” Jay Caspian Kang collects testimonials from 12 faculty members from across the country on how A.I. usage in the classroom has changed their work. Read them here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Pc…
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