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Kim Sawchuk Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Concordia University kim.sawchuk@sympatico.ca

Kim Sawchuk is the current editor of the Canadian Journal of Communications. Her research involves the close study of the relationship between embodiment, social practice and discourses on technology. Kim has an unusual passion for methodology, particularly qualitative methods. She has been experimenting with the potential of open source software and multimedia tools for collaborative research and developing research protocols and processes for better understanding how to enhance user participation with locative media projects. When Pain Strikes (1999, with co-editors Cathy Busby and Bill Burns) and Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media (2000, co-edited with Janine Marchessault) are but two of Kim’s many publications. In addition to her academic interests, Kim has been a new media activist. In 1996 she co-founded StudioXX, a feminist research and media arts centre in Montréal.