Jacquelyn Burkell
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Solution Network Member
Canadian AI Safety Institute Research Program
Safeguarding Courts from Synthetic AI Content
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About
Jacquelyn Burkell’s research focuses on the social impact of technology, examining how technological mediation changes social interaction and information behaviour. She is a co-investigator on the Autonomy Through Cyberjustice Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership grant, and was also a co-investigator on the eQuality Project, a SSHRC Partnership grant focusing on youth equality and privacy online. Her current research focuses on informed consent, and she is a collaborator on a SSHRC Insight Grant focused on challenges to the individual model of consent for the release of personal information. She works collaboratively with colleagues in law, sociology, engineering and multiple other disciplines. She thrives on the excitement and challenge of interdisciplinary research and is particularly interested in bringing empirical work from psychology and sociology into dialogue with legal and policy issues, in order to inform effective and appropriate responses to some of the challenges of our changing digital environment.
Relevant Publications
- Kelly, D. and Burkell, J. (2025). Chapter 3: It’s not (all) about the information: The role of cognition in creating and sustaining false beliefs (pp. 41-66). In M. Sanfilippo and M. Ocepek (Eds.), Governing Everyday Misinformation. Cambridge University Press.
- Burkell, J., Bailey, J. (2023). Reasons for judicial decisions: Coming to terms with what explainable AI can and cannot give us (pp: 251-274). In K. Gentelet (Ed.), Justice Sociale et Intelligence Artificielle, Quebec City, Canada: Les Presses de l’Université Laval.
- Burkell, J., and Regan, P. (2020). Voting public: Leveraging personal information to construct voter preference. In N. Witzleb, M. Paterson, and J. Richardson (Eds.), Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law (Chapter 4). Abingdon, Axon: Routledge Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429288654. (22 pages)
- Burkell, J., and Gosse, C. (2020). Politics and porn: how news media characterizes problems presented by deepfakes. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 37(5), 497-511.
- Burkell, J.A. (2016). Remembering me: Big data, individual identity, and the psychological necessity of forgetting. Ethics and Information Technology, 18(1), 17-23. (Invited paper).