The LabCMO

LabCMO brings together researchers interested in the use of digital technologies and media from the point of view of the changes they bring about in society. LabCMO is co-directed by Florence Millerand and Guillaume Latzko-Toth. 

LabCMO’s work uses interdisciplinary approaches, mostly qualitative or mixed, to address digital media and their audiences; emerging informational and cultural practices and new mediation devices; online sociability, identity and political action; citizen engagement in a digital context; the socio-political stakes of information capitalism and alternative movements (free software, peer production, citizen science, open data, etc.); work and collaborative dynamics in digital environments.

Founded in 2002, LabCMO spans two main campuses, respectively at Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval (Québec). In total, nearly 20 researchers and 70 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from 5 academic institutions are affiliated with the LabCMO. These people come from graduate programs in communication, sociology, STS (science, technology and society) and related disciplines, as well as doctoral and postdoctoral fellows.

LabCMO is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture and is affiliated with the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST).