Stuart Duncan

STUART DUNCAN

Emerging Researcher

Stuart is a PhD student in the Media and Design Innovation program at Toronto Met University, and his research focuses broadly on the field of computational social science concentrating on the social impacts of artificial intelligence and online algorithms, with a particular focus on its impacts in the field of journalism. Stuart also has a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from Toronto Met University and a Bachelor of Arts in Computing and Information Science from the University of Guelph.

As part of his research at the Explanatory Journalism and Uptake Project, he uses computational processes to analyze online content with the goal of measuring the characteristics of online deliberation in explanatory journalism. Professionally he has worked in media and journalism for almost two decades, most of that with the CBC where he is a producer on CBC News’ national social media team. He has also worked as an instructor at George Brown College and Toronto Met's RTA School of Media.