Ph.D., University of Toronto, Philosophy of Education

M.A., University of Toronto, Philosophy of Education

B.A. (Hons.), University of Toronto, Philosophy and Religious Studies

information, media, communication, and digital humanities; ancient philosophy (especially Plato) and comparative religion; philosophy of technology (ethics, education); orality and literacy studies; history and philosophy of the book, libraries, archives, and museums

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science (tenure-track), University of Missouri, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT)

Assistant Professor of Information (status appointment), University of Toronto, Faculty of Information

Assistant Professor of Culture and Technology (contract appointment), University of Toronto, Faculty of Information; cross-appointed to the University of St. Michael’s College Program in Book History and Media Studies

Thesis Supervisor (contract appointment), University of Guelph, School of English and Theatre Studies, Program in Media Studies, cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy

Lecturer (Adjunct), University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Theory and Policy Studies

Lecturer, (Adjunct), University of Toronto, Faculty of Information, McLuhan Centre in Culture and Technology

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of History and Philosophy

Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Senior Fellow, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.

Visiting Fellow, University of Michigan, Departments of Classics and History.

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Full Scholarship, University of Toronto

University of Toronto Award for Distinguished Achievement in Philosophy and Religion

Lindon Clarke Harvey Prize in Philosophy, Victoria College, University of Toronto

Marian Edith Binning Scholarship, Victoria College, University of Toronto

Editorial Board Member, Open Information Science. De Gruyter Open Berlin, Germany.

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Ethics in Digital Research (formerly the International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education), IGI Global.

Founding Co-Editor, MediaTropes (MT, a peer-reviewed journal of media and cultural studies), University of Toronto, www.MediaTropes.com

Editorial Board Member, Explorations in Media Ecology (EME, an international journal of media and media environments), Fordham University

Gibson, T. (in press, 2019). Digital humanities, libraries, and collaborative research: New Technologies for digital textual studies. College and Undergraduate Libraries.

Gibson, T., Murray, S.J., Erdelez, S., Disney, B., & Greenspan, B. (2018). Digital humanities, libraries, and crowdsourcing: Foundations of digital textual technologies. Building and Sustaining an Ethical Future with Emerging Technology. In Proceedings of the 81 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 55(1), 808-811.

Murray, S.J., Chau, J., & Gibson, T. (2016). Intelligence and war. [Special Issue]. MediaTropes VI(2), i-xiv.

Gibson, T. (2016). Between orality and literacy: Plato’s hybrid medium and the foundations of media theory. In Norm Friesen (Ed.), Transatlantic Developments in Media and Communication Studies. Berne, Switzerland: Springer.

Erdelez, S., Howarth, L., & Gibson, T. (2015). How can information science contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease research? In Proceedings of the 78 Annual Meeting of The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 52(1), 1-4.

Gibson, T. (2015). Website (peer-reviewed and under separate contract; hosted on the Oxford University Press site). Connecting scholarship and digital media. Toronto, New York, London: Oxford University Press.

Gibson, T. & Lipton, M. (2014). Research, write, create: Connecting scholarship and digital media. Toronto; New York; London: Oxford University Press.

Meszaros, C., Gibson, T., & Carter, J.  (2014). Interpretation and the art museum: Between the familiar and the unfamiliar. In Juliette Fritsch (Ed.), Museum gallery interpretation and material culture (pp. 43-65). London and New York: Routledge / Taylor & Francis.

Gibson, T. (2013). Information. In M. Danesi (Ed.), Media and communications. (pp. 349-354). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Gibson, T. (2012). On the interface: Between media cultures and worlds. In S. van den Berg (Ed.), Walter J. Ong Centenary Forum. [Special Issue]. Journal of Religion and Literature 44(2), 179-188.

Gibson, T.G. (2011). Tradition and text: Plato’s dialogues, the literate revolution, and the foundations of media theory. International Journal of McLuhan Studies, 1, 74-88.

Gibson, T. (2011). Tradition into text: Plato and the literate revolution. In M. Ciastellardi, C. Miranda de Almeida, and C.A. Scolari (Eds.). McLuhan galaxy: Understanding media, today. Conference Proceedings, Barcelona, Spain: Universitat Oberta Catalunya Press, 32-44. [“Best Paper Award”].

Murray, S.J., & Gibson, T. (2011). Unknown knowers: Mediating knowledge in the “global village.” In E. Malewski, & N. Jaramillo (Eds.), Epistemologies of ignorance in education (Chapter 10). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Gibson, T. (2010). The fisher: Repetition and sequence in Plato’s Sophist, Statesman, and Ion. [Special Issue]. Plato and Platonism: The Constitution of a Tradition. The McNeese Review, 48, 82-109.

Gibson, T. (2019, March 22). Vault | firmament | stereoma: A digital text analysis of division and parallelism in Genesis and Plato. Society for Biblical Literature, New England / Eastern Canada Region, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Gibson, T., & Murray, S.J. (2018, May 11). Aristotle’s critique of Plato: The Greek Key Interface and the rhetoric of the “unwritten doctrines.” Inaugural Conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society / Conférence inaugurale de la Société aristotélicienne du Canada. Dominican University College / Collège universitaire dominicain, Ottawa, Canada.

Gibson, T. (2017, June 9-12). Ancient technologies of representation: The Greek Key Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for the study of patterns of argument in classical and biblical texts. Technologies of the Book. International Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). University of Victoria, Canada.

Gibson, T. (2016, October 29). The Dark Sea and the Lake of Heaven: Representation and rhetoric in Zhuangzi I-V and Plato: An approach from information science. Chinese Philosophy Panel. International Conference of the Society for Ancient Philosophy, Fordham University.

Gibson, T. (2015, October 24). Sight and insight: Body and soul in Plato and Plotinus. International Conference of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, NYC.

Gibson, T., & Wadholm, R.R. (2014, July 7). The Greek key: New technologies for the analysis of rhetorical figures in classical and biblical texts. Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Early Jewish and Christian Studies, EABS/SBL Consultation Group. International Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature and European Association of Biblical Studies, Universität Wien (University of Vienna), Austria.

Gibson, T. (2014, May 23). Private and public: Digital media ethics and information–global and local perspectives. International Conference on Education, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket, Thailand.

Gibson, T. (2013, October 12). The vicious circle: The definition of knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus. International Conference of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, NYC.

Gibson, T. (2012, October 29). Secrets and lies: Digital media ethics and integrity in global perspective. International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Loyola University Chicago.

Gibson, T., & Murray, S.J. (2012, June 23). Authenticity and khrēsis in Michel Foucault’s reading of Plato’s Alcibiades I. International Conference, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS), Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia.

Gibson, T. (2012, October 29). Secrets and lies: Digital media ethics and integrity in global perspective. International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Loyola University Chicago.

Gibson, T. (2011, May 25). The great divide: Orality and literacy in the global village. International Conference, Understanding Media Today. Universitat Oberta Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Gibson, T. (2018, September 19). Digital technologies and scholarship: New horizons for the humanities. Nominated speaker for Lightning Talk and Panel, “Human in the Digital Age.” University of Missouri System Summit, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Gibson, T. & Campion Riley, A. (2018, August 15). The virtual research environment and libraries. Invited featured talk for Virtual Conference, The Computer Campus: Integrating Information Systems and Services. National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

Gibson, T. (2016, October 25). On Plato’s forms: The ideas and intellectual legacy of E.A. Havelock. Keynote, plenary panel. The Toronto School of Communication: Then | Now | Next. International conference, iSchool, University of Toronto.

Ross, S., Gibson, T., Newman, W., & Lankes, R.D. (2016, January 8). A brief history of ethics. Keynote and plenary panel. President’s program: The ethics of our profession. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Boston, MA.