The Institute for Research on Digital Literacies
The Institute for Research on Digital Literacies

Mary Leigh Morbey

Mary Leigh Morbey is Professor of Culture and Technology in the York University Faculty of Education, Toronto, and serves as the Associate Co-Chair of the York Institute for Research on Digital Learning. She researches, teaches, and publishes widely on the theory, history, practice, and education of Web participatory and Social Media technologies, digital literacies, and technological mediations in visual culture, with an emphasis on the Global South. Her publications are included in Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, SIGGRAPH Visual Proceedings, the International Journal of Learning and Media (The MIT Press), and the International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, as well as other academic journals and books. She is currently completing a book on information communications technology access and education, and is the research team leader of the Ugandan Heritage Sites and Stories social media project of the Uganda National Museum in Kampala.

 

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