Information & Media Studies

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The Faculty of Information & Media Studies empowers students to examine how information and media shape our everyday lives. Students learn to critically analyze how media and media consumers are influenced by economic, political, cultural and technological factors. Current areas of study include social media, artificial intelligence, social justice issues, representation in media, privacy and surveillance, popular music, the media's role in decolonization and information practices and public libraries.

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FIMS Founders and Future Fund

FIMS Founders and Future Fund gifts support FIMS students, inspiring them to study, analyze, and critique media, to understand our ever-more complex information systems, and to communicate creatively in new ways. Gifts to the Fund help us provide our students with modern infrastructure, technology, and equipment and to offer scholarship and bursary opportunities that ensure all can learn at FIMS. Donors provide students access to learning and to communicating their work in the world beyond campus.

Journalism Fund

Join a community of donors who are elevating the learning experience for students pursuing a Master of Media in Journalism & Communication. Your gift provides the faculty with the flexibility we need to support students with stipends for unpaid internship opportunities, financial aid including scholarships and bursaries, and field equipment to help students share compelling stories on multiple platforms.

Askunessippi (Antler River) Scholarship

The Askunessippi Scholarship was established with a generous gift from an alumnus of the MLIS Class of 1992. The gift provides an annual scholarship to help fund an entering student in the Master of Library and Information (MLIS) program, with preference given to an Indigenous student (First Nations, Métis or Inuit). The Askunessippi Scholarship recognizes the importance of supporting Indigenous students, creating a greater diversity of librarians, and better reflecting the communities who use public libraries and other information services. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the scholarship to help us change the face of librarianship in Canada and beyond.