Associate Professor
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - Department of Sociology
York Research Chair
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext. 77990
kurasawa@yorku.caKey Areas of Expertise
- Digital culture and online community
- Big data, data mining and crowdsourcing
- Global justice, human rights, and humanitarianism
- The role of social media in human rights activism and humanitarian crises
- New technology links to solving global problems
- The visual representation of news events (photography, video, etc.)
- Municipal (Toronto), provincial (Ontario and Québec), and federal politics
- Québec culture, society, and politics
Languages
French
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Faculty of LAPS Profile
Fuyuki Kurasawa Website
Radio Canada International - The Rob Ford Saga
Radio Canada International - Provincial election in Ontario
Radio Canada International - Elections: little doubt in Alberta, close fight in Ontario
Book - The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices
Research: The Long Shadow of History: The Paradoxes of Iconographic Reiteration in Anti-Slavery Advocacy
Research: A Message in a Bottle: Bearing Witness as a Mode of Transnational Practice
Radio Canada International - 24 heures en 60 minutes
Radio Canada International ICI #ONRC - Élections fédérales: Analyse de la bataille de l'Ontario
ICI Radio-Canada - Trudeaumanie 2.0 : Comprendre l'élection du Parti libéral et l'engouement pour son chef
YFile - Ten emerging and established researchers appointed York Research Chairs
CBC News - Violent news 'more intense' through smartphones and social media, expert says
CBC News - Abuse of Ghostbusters star a PR 'nightmare' that forced Twitter to ban Yiannopoulos, expert says
CBC - Do you need to see it to believe it?
CBC - Facebook reviewing reporting practices after killing posted online
Awards
Tier 2 York Research Chair in Global Digital Citizenship - 2015
York University
Permanent Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology - 2004 - present
Yale University
Outstanding Book Award for The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices - 2009
Global Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Co-Chair, Research Committee on Sociological Theory - 2006 - 2010
International Sociological Association
Fulbright Scholar - 2003 - 2004
Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program
Canadian Young Leader - 2000
The Globe and Mail (July 1 issue)
Member of the College - 2015
Royal Society of Canada
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