MTIS Iris Sanda
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Process, sources, and how the work gets made.

Research logs and behind-the-scenes notes for pieces that had one, starting with the first.

Research log

Behind: Food-Tech Innovation

The sources pulled together for the piece on Toronto's food-tech sector — corporate data, industry reports, job listings and association pages, each cited inline in the piece itself.

12 sources reviewed

Sources

  1. City of Toronto — Food & Beverage sector overview
  2. Built In Toronto — directory of food companies
  3. Destination Toronto — 10 groundbreaking innovations in Toronto's food & beverage sector
  4. Toronto Business Development Centre — The Foodtech Revolution in Canada
  5. Fasken — AgTech and Food Tech practice overview
  6. SimplyHired — food technology job listings, Toronto, ON
  7. Glassdoor — Toronto food technology jobs
  8. Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology
  9. George Brown College — FIRSt studio
  10. Eventbrite — FoodTech Frontier 2026, Ontario
  11. Canadian Food Innovation Network — portfolio overview
  12. Toronto Global — Hungry expands into Toronto (used for contrast)
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Research log

Behind: Dangerous Psychosocial Transformations

The full research log kept while writing the piece on COVID-19, social media and mental health — every source considered, with the excerpts and notes pulled from each one along the way.

47 pages · 15 sources reviewed

Sources

  1. Gao J, Zheng P, Jia Y, Chen H, Mao Y, Chen S, et al. (2020). Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231924.
  2. JMIR Mental Health, 2020;22(5):e19009
  3. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, via NCBI PMC8126999
  4. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020;22(11):e22600
  5. ScienceDirect, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, S2589750020303150
  6. NCBI PMC7338858
  7. JMIR Mental Health, 2020;22(5):e19556
  8. ScienceDirect, S1871402120301545
  9. NCBI PMC7752864
  10. ScienceDirect, S2214782920301111
  11. Stjernswärd S, Ivert A, Glasdam S. Perceptions and effects of COVID-19 related information in Denmark and Sweden — a web-based survey about COVID-19 and social media. Journal of Public Health, 2021.
  12. Brailovskaia J, Truskauskaite-Kuneviciene I, Margraf J, Kazlauskas E. Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: addictive social media use, depression, anxiety and stress in quarantine — an exploratory study in Germany and Lithuania. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2021;5:100182.
  13. Liu T, Li S, Qiao X, Song X. Longitudinal change of mental health among active social media users in China during the COVID-19 outbreak. Healthcare, 2021;9(7):833.
  14. Ryu J, Sükei E, Norbury A, Liu SH, Campaña-Montes J, Baca-Garcia E, Artés A, Perez-Rodriguez M. A shift in social media app usage during COVID-19 lockdown and clinical anxiety symptoms. JMIR Mental Health, 2021.
  15. Larnyo E, Dai B, Nutakor J, Ampon-Wireko S, Appiah R, Larnyo A, Akey-Torku B, Nkrumah E. Assessing the impact of social media use on everyday emotion in health crises. Healthcare, 2021;9(8):1011.
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