1. Sovereignty
2. Citizen engagement
3. Language and identity
4. Culture
5. And the understanding of communication itself within the Canadian context.
It has been funded by Funded by an SSHRC Research Development Initiative with additional support from Canadian Heritage.
"The Political Economy of Dissent: Global Publics after Cancun" (216K PDF)
by Daniel Drache
"The Growing Global Communication Grid: Shrinking The North-South Divide?"
(216K PDF)
by Daniel Drache, Marco Morra and Marc D. Froese
Media Coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS Outbreak:
Powerpoint Presentation (632K PDF)
by Daniel Drache, Seth Feldman, David Clifton
Media Coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS Outbreak:
A Report on the Role of The Press in a Public Crisis (80K PDF)
Modern dissent has its own politics of representation. In an age drowning in commercial images, counterpublics use the power of visual imagery to mobilize and sustain public dissent. The study of iconic imagery reveals the extent to which political images shape modern ideas and sustain the activism of counterpublics. Counterpublics use the power of visual imagery to mobilize and sustain public dissent. The reports from the counterpublic working group are for educational purposes and individual use only. The images were found online and should not be reproduced commercially. Anyone interested in contributing a digital report on modern dissent is encouraged to do so. Please contact Daniel Drache, drache@yorku.ca
I Gotta Be Me: Public Reason and the Hardwired Global Citizen
Semiotic
Disobedience: Shit-Disturbers in an Age of Image Overload
The Iconography of Dissent and Global Politics
Che: Modernity's Rock Star of Dissent
The Eye-Conics of Inequality: Feminism - The Defining Idea of Our Time
The Movement of Movements: Nixers and Fixers in the Global Village
Revolutionary Anger and the Struggle for Human Rights