Sophie Toupin

Bio

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"Sophie Toupin is pursuing a Ph.D in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship award recipient. Her doctoral research examines the relationship between technology and anti-colonialism in Southern Africa. Her secondary research interest explores the linkages between technology, feminism and activism through ethnographic studies and projects. Her work has been published in Canadian Journal of Communication, Journal of Peer Production, and Les cahiers du gerse, among others. Finally, she is the project administrator for Media@McGill a hub of research, scholarship, and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology and culture at McGill University." (https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Handbook_of_Peer_Production)

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"Sophie Toupin is currently working for Media@McGill, a hub for research, scholarship and public outreach on media, technology and culture at McGill University in Montreal. In 2012-2013 she was a research associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Centre in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her research interests focus on the relationship between feminist online and offline practices within social movements, and feminist, queer and trans hacker culture." (http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/no/29-The-Montreal-Issue/femhack-feminism-and-hacking-converge-montreal-tech-collective)