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Nicole S. Cohen is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age, which received the 2017 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association.
Murat Akser worked as programmer at Toronto International Film Festival and as coordinator at Canadian Film Centre. As a cameraman he worked in major Hollywood productions and he is a member of IATSE International Cinematographers Guild and Canadian Academy of Film and Television.
Constance Crompton is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa.
Alumni List
Name | Thesis/MRP | Supervisor | Committee Member / Second Reader |
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Claudia Abate | Pop Music as a Counter Culture? Hybrid Identities and the new Global Youth | Bailey, Steven | Murphy, Michael |
Annamaria Aceto | Mazepa, Patricia | Mazepa, Patricia | Mazepa, Patricia |
Temilade Adebiyi | Femvertising Meets Black Feminism: Inside Nike’s Feminist Aesthetic and Collaboration with Serena Williams | Thompson, Cheryl | Fresco, Estee |
Ololade Adekunle | The commercialization of cuteness: Exploring the Sharenting Practices of Nigerian Mothers in North America | Coulter, Natalie | Jacobson, Jenna |
Renee Alleyn | Cosmopolitan Nationalism and its Theoretical Application in Studies of the Canadian National Project | Reisenleitner, Markus | Bailey, Steven |
Amina Ally | Justin Bieber is Freaking Sexy!”: An Exploration of Fangirl Desire and (Dis)Identification Using Schizoanalysis | Campbell, Miranda | Driver, Susan |
Dylan Alsop | Climate Crisis, Youth and Media: a story anaysis of Geo-Doc videos as agents for social transformations | Berland, Jody | Tschofen, Monique; Terry, Mark |
Rawan Al-Wakeal | Strengthening Canadian Identity Via New Design Interface: MyTIFF-Festivals and MyTIFF-Learning for the Toronto International Film Festival | Bailey, Steven | Hayward, Mark; Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella |
Melissa Anderson | Urban Sanctuary Assemblages: A Case Study on Canada’s Sanctuary City Movement | Coombe, Rosemary | Shields, John |
Michele Anderson | Sense of Place: Finding a Place for Toronto Chinese-Canadian Diaspora in the Creative City Discourse | Drache, Daniel | Frolic, Bernard |
Antonia Antonopoulos | “Participatory Video” By and For BRAC Peer Educators | Fletcher, Fred | Evans, Barbara |
Julia Aoki | Revitalizing the Park: Digging up Historical Narratives in Oppenheimer | Eichhorn, Kate | Marchessault, Janin |
Catherine Argiropoulos | The value of culture: Culture and Municipal Policy in the city of Toronto | Dowler, Kevin | Zemans, Joyce |
Sophie Argyle | Clocked by the App: Discovering Queer Identity on TikTok | Driver, Susan | Coulter, Natalie; Boyd, Jason |
Aurore Coco Avolonto | The Choice of Acculturation Strategies: Intercultural Adaptation of International Students from Sub-Saharan African Francophone Countries in Ontario | Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie | Hayward, Mark; Garon, Francis |
Olukayode Ayankojo | Diasporic Community Cultural Identity and the Internet | Blum, Alan | Bailey, Steven; Prokopow, Michael |
Loren Aytona | The Kids Are (Not) Alright: Framing Canadian Young Worker Subjectivities Through Policy & Media Discourse | Vosko, Leah | Thomas, Mark |
Seung Woo Baek | Ignored and Deleted: Understanding content moderators as racialized media of social network services | Elmer, Greg | Kusno, Abidin; Shiga, John |
Daria Bagan | Having the Best of Both and None of Any: Television, Popular Media and Social Representations of The Working Woman | Burwell, Jennifer | MacLennan, Anne |
Joseph Bahn | Living With Culture: The “Creative City” and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche | Drache, Daniel | Crichlow, Warren |
Nicholas Balaisis | Ethical Interventions: Italian Neorealism and Everyday Life | Marchessault, Janine | Mooers, Colin |
Jennifer Ball | Constructing & Representing Identities of Criminalized Popularities | Cukier, Wendy | Feldman, Seth; Skinner, David |
Brenda Bannis | Can Koudnet Help Reclaim Community | Fisher, Caitlin | Hyman, Belerie; Fletcher, Fred |
Natalia Barykina | Complicating Post-Soviet Urban Space: Theoretical Inquiry into Power, Architecture, Media and Social Space in contemporary Minsk | Ingram, Susan | Reisenleitner, Markus |
Arianne Beauchamp | Seducing Quebec Audiences: Looking into Quebec Film’s Box-Office Boom at the Turn of this Century | Elmer, Greg | Marchessault, Janine |
Katherine Bell | News Coverage of the Pope’s death | Crow, Barbara | Fletcher, Fred; Allen, Gene |
Sabrina Bellissimo | Marketing and Adversiting to Teenage Girls in the Social Media Age | Gammel, Irene | Campbell, Miranda |
Andrea Benoit | Cleaning Up: Reality, Responsibility and Relativity in The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty | Bruce, Jean | Crow, Barbara |
Megan Berry | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Kris Bertram | Decolonizing the Digital: Radio Spectrum in an Age of Neocolonialism | Middleton, Catherine | Slowey, Gabrielle |
Michael Bickerton | Strategic Storytelling: Challenging Dominant Metaphors of HIV and AIDS through Serial Television Drama | Denisoff, Dennis | Dowler, Kevin |
Andrew Bieler | Rhythmanalysis of Critical Mass: A Meeting Place | Marchessault, Janine | Dowler, Kevin; Kipfer, Stefan |
Susan Bigelow | Technologies of Perception: Miyazaki in Theory and Practice | Marchessault, Janine | Goulding, Jay; Bailey, Steven |
Emily Blyth | Exploring Online Narratives of Inequitable Policing in Ontario: An Analysis of Tweets and Initial Web-Based News Articles in 2020 | Nielsen, Emilia | Heynen, Robert J; Green, Ruth |
Nis Bojin | What Do We Learn When We Change the Way We Play? Augmenting the Computer Gameplay Experience | Durlak, Jerry | Herman, Andrew |
Gabrielle Boodhoo | MMIG and Adultification: Representation of Missing and Murdered Girls in Canada in Canadian News Articles | Coulter, Natalie | N/A |
Maya Boritz | The Strategic Use of the Internet within Civil Society Organizations towards an Expanded Framework | Crow, Barbara | Alhassan, Amin |
Allison Bottomley | Art in the Neighbourhood – Public Culture and the Urban Environment | Cohnstaedt, Joy | Mooers, Colin |
Allison Bowsher | They’re Gonna Put Me In The Movies: The Pop Music Soundtracks of the Conventional, the Unconventional and the Vampires | Bailey, Steven | MacLennan, Anne; Mooers, Colin |
Frederique Bournot | White Noise: Essay on Multiculturalism in the Canadian Racial and Cultural Imaginary | MacLennan, Anne | Fletcher, Fred; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella |
Sheilagh Brasset | Baudrillard’s Last Man: The Necessity of Self-Satire for a Critical Spirit | Bailey, Steven | Rowland, Wade |
Jennifer Breckenridge | Evolution of Commodified Identity and its Resistance & Renegotiation | Rowland, Wade | Mooers, Colin |
Natalie Brown | Remote Witness: Google Earth and the Visualization of Conflict in Crisis in Darfur | Viseu, Ana | Elmer, Greg; Rowland, Wade |
Roberta Brown | Representations of the Female Serial Killer in Film | Young, Suzie | Fisher, Caitlin; Cukier, Wendy |
Christene Browne | The Cinematic Dreams of Black Female Protagonists | Sanders, Leslie | Bociurkiw, Marusya; Kazimi, Ali |
Ren Bucholz | Laws of Air and Ether: Copyright, Technology Standards, and Competition | Coombe, Rosemary | Skinner, David; Elmer, Greg |
Tara Burke | “Steal Away”: The Commodification of the Black Gospel Choir | Bowman, Rob | Salter, Loira |
Zoe Burke | The meaning of murals: The role of public art in Canadian communities | Campbell, Miranda | /A |
Jacquelyn Cain | Representations of Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Marchessault, Janine | Trifonova, Temenuga |
Iain Cameron | Ambiguous City Space | Marchessault, Janine | Snyder, Don |
Christopher Caruso | Value-for-Signal: The Future of Television Broadcast Regulation in Canada | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven |
Maria Casasfranco | Family Engagement in the Development of Tablet Applications for Facial Expression and Emotion Recognition for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella | Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie; Wong, Wendy |
Hilary Chan | Ready-Made Experience: Consumer Culture | Coombe, Rosemary | Hadlaw, Jan |
Mahssa Chavoshi | RYUReady: Building Online Communities | Bailey, Steven; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella; MacLennan, Anne | N/A |
Michael Cheatley | When Old Space Was News: Transformations in American Urban Form and Commercial Newspapers, 1890–1920 | Moore, Paul | Allen, Gene |
May Chew | Proximal Bodies: A Museological Journey from Distantiation to Collection | Viseu, Ana | Bailey, Steven |
Kiera Chion | Super Girls in China: The Performance of NeoLiberal Values, Desire and Alternative Temporalities | Little, Ken | Lee-Loy, Anne Marie; Crow, Barbara |
Hanna Cho | Untethering Social Capital: A case study in Wireless Community Networking | Middleton, Catherine | Crow, Barbara |
Alan Chumley | Milestones & Metrics: Toward The Economic Value of Public Relations | Gillies, Donald | Crow, Barbara |
Ryan Clement | Comic Worlds: American Comics, Japanese Manga and the Question of Globalization | Fisher, Caitlin | Wong, Wendy |
Kristine Collins | Locating the “Critical” in Media Education in Ontario | Mazepa, Patricia | Gillies, James |
Rachel Crowe | Intercultural Communication and the Internet: Exploring the Dissonance Between Canadian Online Communications Strategies and the Use Practices of Chinese International Students in Canada | Middleton, Catherine | MacLennan, Anne |
Julia Cucci | Reinventing Music: The Evolution of the Independent Artist in the Digital Era | Gauntlett, David | Robinson, Danielle |
Emma Culpeper | How to Succeed in Acting (After Much Trying…): Flexibility, Vulnerability and Social Capital for the Actor in a Liquid Modern Age | Moore, Paul | Slopek, Ed |
Jesse Cumming | Buffered: Livestreaming and the Social Implications of New Technology | Marchessault, Janine | Reisenleitner, Markus |
Jessica Cwynar-Horta | Documenting Femininity: Body-Positivity and Female Empowerment on Instagram | MacLennan, Anne | Coulter, Natalie; Langlois, Ganaele |
Stephanie D’Lima | Sharing Food With Strangers: The Potential Role Of Peer To Peer Food-Sharing Platforms In The Promotion Of Toronto’s Alternative Food System | Koç, Mustafa | Fletcher, Fred |
Candice D’Souza | Popularizing Pedagogy: The Potential Role Of Peer To Peer Food-Sharing Platforms In The Promotion Of Toronto’s Alternative Food System | Crow, Barbara | Khayatt, Didi; Mooers, Colin |
Yolande Daley | Visual Persuasion: Paparazzi and the Power of Photographic Reflections | Little, Ken | Gillies, Donald |
Lauren Daniel | Canada’s Dark Secret: The Re-Emergence of Blackface Within Canada’s Multicultural Nirvana | MacLennan, Anne | Dua, Ena |
Heather Davis | Imag(in)ing Colonial Landscapes: Nationalism and Amnesia Early Canadian Photography | Tschofen, Monique | Seaton, Beth |
Patrick Dawson | Star Stuff: An Exploratory Case Study of the Cosmos Television Franchise—A Companion Paper to the Scalar Project | Theophanidis, Philippe | Elwick, James; Kemp, Dave |
Eleni Deacon | Evolving Mythologies of the Media: Digital Journalism in Contemporary Film | Forsyth, Scott | Allen, Gene |
Scott Deeming | Abandonware, Commercial Expatriation and Post-Commodity Fan Practice: A Study of the Sega Dreamcast | Lessard, Bruno | Brayton, Jennifer; Bailey, Steve |
Michael DeJong | Objectivity and the Kyoto Protocol: A Case Study of Newspaper Framing | Fletcher, Fred | Allen, Gene |
Vanessa Del Carpio | Layers of In-Between: On Women and Fashion | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella | Matthews, David; MacLennan, Anne |
Monika Delmos | Museums of Cultural Waste: The Garage Sale as a Locus of the circulation of Cultural artifacts | Feldman, Seth | Innes, Christopher |
Lisa Dobbin | The Pirate Party Movement: Charting a Course Toward Copyright Reform in the Digital Era | Coombe, Rosemary | Pedersen, Isabelle |
Anne Doelman | Looking Back to What Exactly? Understanding the Implications of Working with 15mm Home Movies in a Digital Non-Linear Editing Environment | Elder, Bruce | Wickens, Renate |
Greg Dube | The Street is Disgusting and Beautiful: The Meanings, Materials and Politics of Automobility | Slopek, Ed | Marchessault, Janine |
Alexandra Duncan | From the Street to the Gallery: A Critical Analysis of the Inseparable Nature of Graffiti and Context | Hornstein, Shelley | Eichhorn, Kate |
Stephanie Dunlop | After Merger Mania: The Effects of Canadian Media Concentration | Skinner, David | Crow, Barbara |
Holly Dupej | The Lyric Online: Re-envisioning a Genre for Digital Poetry | Eichhorn, Kate | Uppal, Priscila; Cain, Stephen |
Susan Dupej | Self-Representing Culture: Aboriginal Identities and Place Branding in a Canadian Tourism Context | Coombe, Rosemary | Slopek, Ed; Holmes, Teresa |
Olivia Dziwak | Acast, Academia: Aaaaarg Fail and the Politics of Illicit File-Sharing | Langlois, Ganaele | Couture, Stephane |
Diana Edelhauser | Escorts Online:Effects Of Policy On Sex Work Through Digital Spaces | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven; Coulter, Natalie |
Elizabeth Edwards | Brotherly Love: Remaking Homosexuality and Masculinity in Fan Fiction | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven; Rubenstein, Anne |
Kelly Egan | The Site of Sound: An Exploration of the E/Affects of Intermedia Texts Through Animated Sound Film | Tschofen, Monique/Elder, Bruce | Dowler, Kevin |
Gary Ellis | Toying with Us? Analysis of Gender and Race in Children’s Television Advertisements | Fletcher, Fred | Gillies, Donald |
Tesni Ellis | Media-Making at Youville Centre: Voicing Young Mother’s Agency Through Digital Storytelling in the Alternative Classroom | Longfellow, Brenda | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella; Schifellite, Carmen |
Kirsten Ellison | The Myth of Agelessness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Agelessness in North American Anti-Aging Skin Care Advertisements | Pedersen, Isabel | MacLennan, Anne; Cody, Susan |
Erin Elofson | Evolving Media Richness Theory to Support the Communication Technologies of Today’s Tomorrow | Middleton, Catherine | Crow, Barbara |
Lucy Eskedjian | Naturalizing Nature: The Use of Idyllic Tropes of Nature as Response to Risk on Environmental Advertising | Bruce, Jean | Cukier, Wendy |
Fernando Espinosa De Los Reyes | Cultural Corportism in Mexico: Approaching the Question of Intellectual Incorporation | Mooers, Colin | Skinner, David |
Gabrielle Etcheverry | Ediciones Cordillera: A Study of Chilean Literary Production in Canada | Panofsky, Ruth | N/A |
Jacqueline Ewald | “Water Should be for Life, Not for Profit”: National Mythologies and Environmental Policy in the Case of Nestle Water-Bottling in Ontario | Mooers, Colin | Skinner, David |
Karen Fernandes | Democracy, Power and Decision Making: A Study of Ontario Municipal Board Decisions for Downtown Toronto 2000–2008 | Salter, Liora | Walsh, Philip; Bailey, Steven |
John Fernandez | Exploring Interactivity: Expanding the Performance Right for Sound Recordings in American Copyright Law. | Coombe, Rosemary | Ojo, Tokunbo |
Edileia Figueiredo | Motivating Political Participation Online: A case study of E-Participatory Budgeting from Brazil | Elmer, Greg | Skinner, David |
Charles Finley | The Palimpsest of Discourse: A Framework for Comparitive Urban Theory and Practise | Tschofen, Monique | Marchessault, Janine |
Rebecca Fisseha | Translation as Experience: Haddis Alemayehu’s Fikir Iske Megabir | Panofsky, Ruth | Adem, Teferi (Ctre for Race & Ethnic Rels); Mukherjee, Arun |
Ian Fitzgerald | “A simple story for simple people.”: Current Trends in the Hollywood Romantic Comedy as a Film Genre | Fogarty, Mary | Moore, Paul |
Laura Flanagan | Mothering on Instagram | Friedman, May | O’Reilly, Andrea; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella |
Susan Flavelle | Leave it to the Men: Representations of Gendered Power and Authority in Television Advertising | MacLennan, Anne | Moore, Paul |
Gregory Flemming | Television and Psychoanalysis: A Laconian Model of Television and its application. | Dowler, Kevin | Herman, Andrew |
Matthew Flisfeder | Globalization, Postmodernism and Public Space: A Visual Study of Yonge – Dundas Square | Berland, Jody | Dowler, Kevin; Shields, John |
Victoria Floyd | Play me a Story: Personal Narrative Development in the SIMS 2 | Jensen, Jennifer | Crow, Barbara |
Keith Flynn | Lucian Influence on Abstract Expressionism | Hornstein, Shelley | Zemel, Carol |
Rebecca Foley | “Crazy B****”: Discriminatory Language, Radio Censorship, Regulation, and Enforcement Policies in Canada | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven; Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie |
Laura Fox | Thinking In Networks: The Interactive Documentary as a Tool for Social Change | Langlois, Ganaele | Longfellow, Brenda; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella |
Naomi Fraser | Expressions of Resistance: An Investigation into Aesthetics, Social Movements and Change | Crow, Barbara | Shields, John |
Alla Gadassik | Hybrid Art in Motion: Live-Action and Animation | Elder, Bruce | Feldman, Seth |
Adrianne Gaffney | Consumption and Belonging in the Era of Neo-Tribalism | Gillies, Donald | Siegel, Arthur |
Teisha Gaylard | Canadian Digital Television: The CRTC’s Licensing Framework and Canada’s Broadcasting Policy Objectives | Siegel, Arthur | Gillies, Donald |
Madison Generoux | Driven by Desire: Fan Practices and the Promise of Queerness | Jennex, Craig | Boyd, Jason |
Amanda Graham | Lost and Unfounded: Revealing Disappearances in the Art of Oscar Munoz | Tschofen, Monique | Marchessault, Janine |
Océane Nyela | Braided Archives: Black hair as a site of diasporic transindividuation | Langlois, Ganaele | Monique Tschofen; Davis, Andrea |
Olga Grass | Interactive Branding and Consumer Identity: Me.com | Mooers, Colin | Ripley, Louise |
Matthew Greaves | The Fetishism Of The Ipad | Ruggles, Myles | Slopek, Ed; Bailey, Steven |
Hyacinth Greville | Genealogy of the Royal Ontario Museum | Gillies, Donald | Fletcher, Fred |
Marc Griebel | On “Inextricable Links” and “Innovative Bridges”: Tracing the Multiscalar Conjunctures and Generative Possibilities of Repatriating Crop Genetic Resources as Indigenous Biocultural Heritage | Coombe, Rosemary | McAllister, Carlotta |
Susan Grossman | The Role of media in sustaining capitalist hegemony: A critical review | Mooers, Collin; Mazepa, Patricia | Crow, Barbara |
David Groundwater | The New Cryptographers | Coombe, Rosemary | Baskoy, Tuna |
Richard Grunberg | Communicating the Concept | Durlak, Jerome | Fletcher, Fred |
Jade Guthrie | Thorncliffe Community Market: Developing a ‘Sense of Place’ for Female Newcomers in Marginalized Neighbourhoods | Koç, Mustafa | Riesenleitner, Markus |
Stephanie Guthrie | Narratives of Quality and Conflict: Media Studies in the Ontario Secondary Curriculum | Gillies, Donald | Mazepa, Pat; Trott, Elizabeth |
Zena Haberman | Meaningful Fiction: An Approach For Appreciating The Book in a Visual Culture | Tschofen, Monique | Feldman, Seth |
Haidi Hall | Print Media Charaterizations of Low Income Communities in Toronto: The Branding of Jane and Finch | Mazepa, Patricia | Alhassan, Amin |
Maura Hanley | BLINDED BY TRANSPARENCY: AI Disclosure Practices in the Canadian Financial Industry | Elmer, Greg | Langlois, Ganaele; Obar, Jonathan |
Abu Faiz Haque | Invisibility of Visible Minorities: A Community Perspective | McCullough, John | Morbey, Mary Leigh; Tschofen, Monique |
Brooke Harrison | Jerry Lewis and Victorian Liminality | Pomerance, Murray | Keil, Charles |
Sarah Harrison | Having the Straight Edge: The Politics of the Straight Edge Subculture | Gillies, Donald | Marchessault, Janine |
James Harrison | An Archaeology of Terror(ism) in Hollywood Film | Pomerance, Murray | Forsyth, Scott |
Ziaul Hasan | Objectivity and Partiality in Primetime News Coverage of National Elections in 2018 and 2019 by Public Channels in Canada and Bangladesh | MacLennan, Anne | Heynen, Robert |
Alex Hayter | Be the Bad Guy: Roleplaying Human Rights Abusers in Newsgames | Jenson, Jennifer | Bailey, Steven |
Talson Henderson | The Uncanny in Modernity and the Techne of Anipaint | Bell, Shannon | Slopek, Ed |
Dylan Hennessey | The Future of Security: The Impact of the Anti-terrorism Act on Canadian Media | Mazepa, Patricia | Mooers, Colin |
Abigail Henry | Digitality and its (Dis)Contents: Rediscovering Caribbean Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age | Coombe, Rosemary | MacLennan, Anne; Ford-Smith, Honor |
Jamaliah Henry | #BLACKLIVESMATTER; New Media, Democracy And The Digital Public Sphere | Hadlaw, Jan | MacLennan, Anne |
Jeffrey Heydon | Fetishizing Fictions: An Investigation into the Use of “race” in Television Sports Advertising | Fletcher, Fred | Gillies, Donald |
David Hibbs | Individualised Environmentalism(s): The Deadly Sins of Environmental Organizations | Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie | MacLennan, Anne; Dowler, Kevin |
Mary Higgins | Transitions in Political Communication: Opening and Closing Publics | Mazepa, Patricia | Drache, Daniel |
Samantha Hodder | Documentaries and Broadcasting in the Canadian Context | Feldman, Seth | McCullough, John |
Jaigris Hodson | A Tangled Web: Public Reason, Web 2.0 and a New Definition of Action for Participatory Technologies | Drache, Daniel | Crichlow, Warren; Crow, Barbara |
Eben Holmes | Gameplay, Simulation, and the Aesthetics of Contingency | Pomerance, Murray | Lessard, Bruno |
Jeannine Holwill | The Cult(ure) of Charity and the Myths of Free The Children | Alhassan, Amin | Viseu, Ana; Naghibi, Nima |
Guy Hoskins | The Efficacy Aggregator; Avaaz.org as Transnational Public Space | Drache, Daniel | Baskoy, Tuna |
Calvin Hughes | Virtual Influencers and the New Wave of Digital Labour Exploitation | Bergstrom, Kelly | Langlois, Ganaele; Akanbi, Opeyemi |
Megan Humphrey | Framed: Mainstream Media Coverage of Anti-Globalization Protesters in Seattle and Miami | Crow, Barbara | Skinner, David; Shields, John |
Mike Hunter | Something in the Water: Hegemonic Roots of Cape Breton Culture[s] | Seaton, Beth | Slopek, Ed |
Sadia Husain | Mediating Public and Private Interests: A Casy Study of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection | Cohnstaedt, Joy | Crow, Barbara |
Maria Isabel Inclan Perea | Latin-American Women Addressing the Gender Gap in Canadian Politics | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella | Longfellow, Brenda; Evans, Barbara; Bailey, Steven C |
Aaisha Islam | The Lost Generation of Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC): Stories of Loss, Longing, and Belonging | Pelkey, Jamin | Ingram, Susan; Winland, Daphne |
Andrew Jacob | Legal McLuhanism in Practice: Decontextualization in Barrick Gold Corp v. Lopehandia | Coombe, Rosemary | Skinner, David |
Preethi Jagadeesh | Of All Places: The Making of an Essay Film for the Interrogation of ‘Home’ Through Diasporic Experience | Ng-Chan, Taien | Naghibi, Nima; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella |
Jay Jameson | The Ideal of Telepresence in Mediated Communication: The divergent frames of video-calling interaction and face-to-face communication | Hadlaw, Jan | MacLennan, Anne |
Jovana Jankovic | The Media Politics of Privacy and Memory: A Study of Surveillance Video in Contemporary Narrative Cinema. | Trifonova, Temenuga | Lessard, Bruno |
Robyn Joffe | This Far, But No Further: Questioning the “Bromance” Trope in Contemporary Film and Television | McCullough, John | Hayward, Mark; Burwell, Jennifer |
Paula John | Gendering the Nation: Joyce Wieland’s Representation of Canada as Feminine versus the Masculine State | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella | Levin, Laura |
Jose Johnson-Cami | I, Author? A Filmmakers Critical Exploration of His Authorship | Schifellite, Carmen | Longfellow, Brenda; Muzzattii, Stephen |
Julie Johnston | Understanding Challenges to Social Inclusion in Mixed-Income Housing Communities: A Case Study of Knowledge Mobilization and Knowledge Transfer (KM/KT) in Regent Park | Shields, John | Baskoy, Tuna |
Christopher Jones | The Nature of Hate Propaganda on the Internet in Canada | Cohnstaedt, Joy | Fletcher, Fred |
Dayna Jones | Bird-Women: A Brief History | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven |
Awni Raur Kalkat | From Fearing AI to Domestic Paradise: The Role of Trust in Amazon Alexa Commercials | Elmer, Greg | Cecchetto, David; Heynen, Robert J |
Genevieve Kang | The Importance of Nutritional Literacy and the Significance of Product Packaging in Food Choices | Schifellite, Carmen | Koç, Mustafa |
Michael Keshen | Making Kinections: Understanding and Exploring the Kinect for Xbox 360 | Jenson, Jennifer | Lessard, Bruno |
Sohalia Khaliqyar | Out of school Girls in Afghanistan: How do nonprofit organizations social media activities lead to real life actions and impact? | Gauntlett, David | Skinner, David |
Sharmeen Khan | Amplifying Action Oriented Media Pedagogy: Identity, Access and Social Change in Community Radio | Skinner, David | Mazepa, Patricia |
Grant Kien | The Digital Story: Analyzing Binary Code as a Cultural Text | O’Neill, John | Crow, Barbara, Burwell, Jennifer |
Enna Kim | Yestermorow: Speculative Tales of a Repair Future | Elmer, Greg | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella; Thompson, Cheryl; Bailey, Steven C |
Bradley King | Postmodernity with Chinese Characteristics: Representing Transnational Urban Space in Beijing | Dowler, Kevin; Tschofen, Monique (2nd Sup.) | N/A |
Mary Kitchen | Actor Engagement: The Theory and Practice of Monologues | Innes, Christopher | Fothergill, Robert |
Ya-Yin Ko | Interrogating the One Laptop per Child Project | Alhassan, Amin | Crichlow, Warren; Viseu, Ana |
Jiaxin Koh | What’s Eating Signapore? | Longfellow, Brenda | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella |
Caroline Kolombos | Convergence and Corporate Public Image | Burwell, Jennifer | Crow, Barbara |
Anabel Khoo | The Emergent Political in Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour (2-QTPOC) Media | Driver, Susan | Little, Ken; Noble, Bobby |
Kayla Koster | A Timeline of Mass Media Manipulation Techniques | Langlois, Ganaele | Middleton, Catherine |
Julianna Kowlessar | Assessing Teacher Candidates’ Attitudes on Critical Media Literacy Education | Bergstrom, Kelly | Coulter, Natalie; Elmer, Greg |
Tesfaye Kumsa | Media, Human Rights and Development in Ethiopia | Alhassan, Amin | Dowler, Kevin |
Randall Kapuscinski | Alton Memories | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven; Marchessault, Janine |
Martha Ladley | [Tentative] Research and Design Methods for Mobile Platforms | Slopek, Ed | Durlak, Jerome |
Benjamin Landau | Transcending Cultural Barriers: An Exploration of Third Culture Theory through the Case Study of Sharhythm Magazine | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven |
Ganaele Langlois | Online Journalism and the Public Sphere: A Discourse Analsis of three Newspaper Web Sites | Fletcher, Fred | Smith, Joyce; Allen, Gene |
Anne LeMesurier | The Growing Culture of Youth Unemployment | Drache, Daniel | Shields, John |
Ernest Leung | Standing Up To Racism: Combatting Anti-Asian Racism During Covid-19 Through Humour in Stand-Up Comedy | Monti, Andrew A | MacLennan, Anne |
Yee-Man Janice Leung | From crowdsurfing to crowdsourcing: Production, consumption, and the shifting music fan experience in a mobile, networked era. | Crow, Barbara | Bailey, Steven; Elmer, Greg |
Yingning Lin | The Rise of Consumer Society in China | Seaton, Beth | Gillies, Donald |
Ariella Linovski | Media’s Representation of National Identity During Armed Conflicts | Weiser, Keith | Ruggles, Myles |
Erika Loic | Memory, Geometry, and the Films of Robert Breer | Elder, Bruce | Feldman, Seth |
Joana Londono | Lovers and Bananas: Hollywood and the Exotization of Latin American ‘Magic’ | Tschofen, Monique | Forsyth, Scott |
Paul Longhurst | Addressing the New Enclosure: Land Grabs and the Food Crisis in a Globalized World | Drache, Daniel | Kitzmann, Andreas |
Roberto Lopez | Life After Sport: providing transitioning athletes with the resources needed for success after sport | MacLennan, Anne | Coulter, Natalie ; Reed, Daryl |
Melanie Love | Communicative Action and Corporatisation: Human Needs and Health Care Systems | Rowland, Wade | Bailey, Steven |
Janet Loveday | Creativity Needs Space | Innes, Christopher | Zemans, Joyce |
Andrea Luc | Hit “XX” to Reproduce Gender Binaries: An Exploration of Access, Skill, and Gaming Identities Among Pre-Adolescents | Jensen, Jennifer | Boyd, Jason |
Isabella Lyne | Networks of Care: Digitally mediated mutual aid during the Covid-19 Pandemic | Singh, Rianka | Langlois, Ganaele |
Kailing Ma | Transformation: Aspects of the Contemporary Mediascape in China | Fletcher, Fred | Gillies, Donald |
Le-Le Mac | Chinese Canadian Identity and Film | Nijhawan, Shobna | Bailey, Steven |
Isabel Macdonald | The Haiti Coup 2004: The Propaganda Model & Canadian Press Sources | Skinner, David | Mooers, Colin; MacDermid, Robert |
Jacinda Mack | Remembering Ista: Nuxalk Perspectives on Sovereignty and Social Change | Dion, Susan (Educ) | Seaton, Beth; Barndt, Deb |
Erin MacKeen | The Myth of Technological Salvation: Posthuman Promises for the Future and the Invisible Present of Techno-Evolution | Tschofen, Monique | Mooers, Colin |
Quinn MacNeil | Platformizing Community Safety: A Case Study of Amazon’s Video Doorbell, Ring | Light, Evan | Langlois, Ganele; Akanbi Opeyemi |
Jessica-Ursula Malkin | The Womb-Not-Womb | O’Neill, John | Slopek, Ed |
Mamta Manhas | Creating Third Spaces: A podcast project analyzing transformative resistance and identity formation among South Asian artists in the Greater Toronto Area. | Driver, Susan | Pelkey; Hirji |
Rosemary Marchant | The Artist Trading Card Movement: An Expression of the Curatorial Me | Bailey, Steven | Singer, Yvonne |
Valerie Marchant | Reflection on the Memorialization of the Canadians who died serving in World War One | Mooers, Colin | Rowland, Wade |
Monika Marescaux | Web of Spies: Database Marketing, Informational Security and the Internet | McNally, David | Mooers, Colin |
Bezdek Mark | An analysis of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica crisis based on best suggested crisis communication strategies | Akanbi, Opeyemi | Shtern, Jeremy |
Nicole Markowich | Shifting Standards and Practice at the CRTC: Planned, Inadvertent or Accidental. The Implications for a Changing Regulatory Environment on Canadian Broadcasting | Gilles, Donald | Siegel, Arthur |
Hana Marku | The Implications of the Internet on Civic Identity in Kosovo | Drache, Daniel | Allen, Gene; Feldman, Seth |
Daniel Marrone | Between Panels: Nostalgia in the Work of Daniel Clowes | Panofsky, Ruth | Mooers, Colin; Ingram, Susan |
Sascha Marschang | Neue Heimat or Temporary Dwelling Place? Hybridity on Migrant Websites in Germany | Slopek, Edward | Alhassan, Amin |
Nino Marshania | Georgian Diaspora Online | Bailey, Steven | Rowland, Wade |
Sara Martel | Transformative Politics in Consumer-Capitalism: Critically Constructing the Political Subject | Mooers, Colin | Seaton, Beth; Fletcher, Fred |
Bassel Martin | Ashley at UrbanArts: Popular Theatre and Personal Growth Among Youth in Toronto | Rudakoff, Judith | Slopek, Edward; Crow, Barbara |
Jennifer Martin | Avatar Interaction: Online Identity and the Effects of Visual Technologies | Crow, Barbara | Bailey, Steven; Jensen, Jennifer |
Frederick Matern | The Discourse of Civilization in the Works of Russia’s New Eurasianists | Plekhanov, Sergei | Bell, David |
Jeremy Mathers | Hidden Power: Atomic Energy Documentaries at the National Film Board of Canada | Feldman, Seth | Moore, Paul |
Melanie McBride | Massively Multiplayer Marginalizations: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Claims of Advanced in the Works of Gee, Steinkuehler and Squire | Nolan, Jason | Jenson, Jennifer |
Robin McCullough | Notes from the Field: Translation, Inscription, and the Materiality of Communication in Silvicultural Practice | Berland, Jody | Fitzpatrick, Blake; Viseu, Ana |
Brenda McDermott | The Exhibition and Reception of Newsreels and Topical Films in Toronto During World War I | Allen, Gene | Morris, Peter |
Lucinda McDonald | The Meaning of “E-“: Language, Technology and Society | Crow, Barbara | Embleton, Sheila; Bailey, Steven |
Caitlin McKinney | Making Out on the Internet: Interpreting Popular Photographs on Afterellen.com | Driver, Susan | MacLennan, Anne; Parsons, Sarah |
Andre McLean | Mainstream Portrayls of Black Thought: Atlanta, Inseure, and the Critical Capacities of African American Humour on Television | de Jesus, Desiree | Mohabeer, Ravindra |
Cameron McMaster | The Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Canada using Intellectual Property Rights | Salter, Liora | Craig, Carys |
Erica Melamed | Are You Really There? The Mediatized Experience of the 21st Century Concert-Goer | Maclennan, Anne | Crow, Barbara; Bailey, Steven |
Jessica Mende | From the Tongues of Good Intention: A Critical Look into the Articulated Experiences of Work and Study Abroad in Southern Environment | Alhassan, Amin | Haig-Brown, Celia |
Maria Menegakis | Representation, Race & Riches; Profit Driver use of Ethnic Stereotypes in the Media | MacLennan, Anne | Shtern, Jeremy; Gakas, Athanasios |
Lanjuan Meng | The Phantom Public Sphere and its Problems: An Inquiry into Neoconservative Ideology and the Political Value of the Aesthetic Dimension | Slopek, Edward | Tschofen, Monique |
Tamara Miller | Digital Activism: Free The Children and Youth Online | Crow, Barbara | Alhassan, Amin; Murphy, Michael |
Theadora Mills | Postmodernity with Chinese Characteristics: Representing Transnational Urban Space in Beijing | Schifellite, Carmen | Neverson, Nicole |
Lesley Model | Indian Myths and Legal Realities: The New Age Appropriation of Indigenous Imagery | Coombe, Rosemary | Fletcher, Fred |
Sara Mohr | Making the Trail: Politics of Identity, Place and Nature in British Columbia | Coombe, Rosemary | Viseu, Ana |
Aidan Moir | Transient Vogue: The Commodification and Spectacle of the Vagrant Other | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steve; Muzzatti, Stephen |
Marcos Moldes | Unfabulous? Alternative Media and the Politics of Representation | Bruce, Jean | MacLennan, Anne; Skinner, David |
Jon Montes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Andrew Alexander Monti | Comparative Electoral Hortatory Language 1993-1994: Jean Chretien and Silvio Berlusconi | Mazepa, Patricia | MacLennan, Anne; Mooers, Colin |
Samantha Moonsammy | Surfing Under Palm Trees: The Internet and Everyday life in Barbados | Crow, Barbara | Alhassan, Amin; Middleton, Catherine |
Sheila Moore | The Transformation of News: From Public Good to Cash Cow? | Skinner, David | Rowland, Wade |
Ana Rita Morais | New Technologies and the Transition to personal Public Speres: Exploring the Circuit of the Mobile Device use Model | Crow, Barbara | Viseu, Ana; Pedersen, Isabel |
Lisa Morgan | Identities in Motion | Crow, Barbara; Shields, John (2nd Sup.) | Fletcher, Fred |
Rhianna Morris | The Constructed Real: How Fashion and Advertising Shape Personal Identity | Marchessault, Janine | Tschofen, Monique |
Abidah Murji | Western Media Image vs. Lived Cultural Reality: A Portrait of the Modern Iranian Citizen | Fletcher, Fred | Shields, John |
Zahra Nader | Can Facebook help Afghan women to gain political inclusion? | Shannon Bell | N/A |
Samita Nandy | Theorizing Kineticism in Cyberbodies: Embodiment and Sexuality in Cyberspace | O’Neill, John | Marchessault, Janine |
Eva Nesselroth | Sublimating the Message: Substance and Meaning in New Media Communication | O’Neill, John | Herman, Andrew |
Gagan Nijjar | Changing The Face Culture Of Hockey: The National Hockey League And Anti-Racism Policy | Fresco, Estee | N/A |
Hiromi Noguchi | Transnational Divorce: The Experiences of Immigrant Japanese Mothers | Oikawa, Mona | Anderson, Karen; Moore, Paul |
Lisa Norton | Educational and Promotional Elements of Branded Prescription Drug Websites Directed to Canadians | Lexchin, Joel | Rowland, Wade |
Clare O’Connor | Pedagogies of Space: The Contestation of Vari Hall | Berland, Jody | Rebick, Judy |
Katie-Lynn O’Connor | The Serial Killer as Celebrity Deviant, Cultural Commodity and Other Macabre Representations of Jeffrey Dahmer | Muzzatti, Stephen | McCullough, John |
Caitlin O’Donovan | From Clicks to Cash: Audience Participation and the Recapitalization of Broadcast Using Cross-Platform Entertainment | Elmer, Greg | Davis, Charles |
Akane Ogiso | Kawaii Curse: Japanese Millennial Working Women and their Negotiation with Gender Performativity | Coulter, Natalie | MacLennan, Anne |
Heather Olsen-Seabourne | National Property: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Reproduction, Industrialization and Canadian Landscape Painting | Eichorn, Kate | Marchessault, Janine |
Magdalena Olszanowski | Microfeminine Warfare: Exploring Women’s Space in Electronic Music | Nolan, Jason | Fisher, Caitlin |
Esho Oyindamola Oluwasey | Beyond Africa as Aesthetic: Exploring Nigerian Afrobeat(s) as a Liberative Tool | Simpson, Hyacinth | Mecija, Casey; Medovarski, Andrea |
Christian Oquendo | Exploring the Frontiers between Communication & Non-Communication with Mexian Society | Ruggles, Myles | Skinner, David; Dowler, Kevin |
Katrina Orlowski | Asinabka Views: Place, Cultural Memory, and Documentary Practice | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella | McNab, David; Longfellow, Brenda |
Karol Orzechowski | Under the Flag? Identity and Nationalism in Canadian Rodeo | Mooers, Colin | MacLennan, Anne; Evans, Barbara |
Josh Overbeek | The Soul of the Corporation: Authenticity and the Socially Responsible Employee | MacLennan, Anne | Coulter, Natalie |
Asiamah Alfrieda Owusu | Covid-19 Related Misinformation on Social Media in Ghana: A Case of Two Selected Bloggers on Instagram | Elmer, Greg | Langlois, Ganaele |
Evren Ozselcuk | Realist, Surrealist, Real-ist: Exploring Three Voices of Critique Trhough the Works of Luis Bunel and Louis Althusser | Tschofen, Monique | O’Neill |
Christian Oquendo | Interactions about Maize within Mexican society | Ruggles, Myles | Skinner, David |
Shoshana Palatnik | Nasa’s Space Shuttle Program: Risk Assessment, the Normalization of Deviance, and Irrational Decision-Making | McArthur, Dan | Bailey, Steven |
Danielle Paroyan | A Public Relation Approach to Post-Soviet Nation Building | Skinner, David | Fletcher, Fred |
Cortney Pasternak | Media Discourses of Women in Conflict Zones: (Mis) Representations of Palestinian Women | Alhassen, Amin | Crow, Barbara |
Whitney-Ann Patrick | Exploring the Intersection of Digital Carnival, Accessibility, and Cultural Preservation in Toronto: A Trinidadian Diasporic Perspective | Singh, Sava Saheli | N/A |
Jason Peng | Time is Money: The Role of Local Governments | Schifellite, Carmen | Sears, Alan |
Delmy Xiomara Peraza-Torres | Refugee Political Transnationalism in El Salvador: The Role of Local Governments | Goldring, Luin | Shields, John |
Malve Petersmann | Mindy is Missing and Stephen is Home: Lost and Found Pet Posters as a Form of Micro-Communication in an Urban Space | Marchessault, Janine | Mooers, Colin |
Pablo Petrucci | Cornergig: A New Media Experiment: Understanding New Media, Music, and Local Experience | Bailey, Steven | Fletcher, Fred; Van Der Bleek, Robert |
Jaigris Phillips (Hodson) | Web 2.0 A Case Study: New Information Technology and Public Reason | Drache, Daniel | Crichlow, Warren |
Daniel Pillai | Reclaiming the “Local” Through the “Foreign”: And Analysis of Contemporary Bollywood Cinema | Sapra, Rahul | Drummond, Lisa |
Marcelina Piotrowski | Matter as Movement: Exploring the Role of Movement in Henri Bergson and Bruno Latour | Janine, Marchessault | Elmer, Greg |
Shelagh Pizey-Allen | Activating Space: Listening to Toronto Soundwalks | Berland, Jody | Blake, Art |
Cassandra Poley | Sexually Transmitted Communication: Getting Between the Sheets with Technology | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella | Bell, Shannon; Bailey, Steven |
Robert Price | The Taxpayer: A Simmelian Analysis of the Taxpayer as a Social Type and an Analysis of Taxpayer Discourse | Blum, Alan | Shields, John; Burke, Mike |
Mark Profiti | How Surveillance Capitalism Dismantles Democracy: Big Data and the Threat Against Agency | Jonathan Obar | Bailey, Steven |
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof | Cinema of Rapture: the Rhythms of Flesh in Ecriture Feminine and Experimental Cinema | Elder, Bruce | Feldman, Seth; Longfellow, Brenda |
Sylwia Przezdziecki | Bridging the Gap: Stories and the Search for Family History: Stories and the Search for Family History | Panofsky, Ruth | Podnieks, Elizabeth |
Susan Quail | Conceptions of the Body in Obesity Epidemic Discourses | Sears, Alan | Podnieks, Elizabeth; Mooers, Colin; Driver, Susan |
Erin Queck | Masculinity and Space: Why Men Love Man Caves: Why Men Love Man Caves | Hornstein, Shelley | Tschofen, Monique |
Alanna Quinn | A love letter to my dad: An autobiographical acount of death prepardness as a caregiver in Canada | Gingras, Jacqui | N/A |
Fatima Quraan | Las Meninas (The Ladies in Waiting): Where does “She” Exist? A Preliminary Suggestion for Construction an Ontological Space for the Feminine | Pantev, Boris; Bailey, Steven | Pelkin, Jamin; Friedman, May |
Mahshid Rafiei | Images: Context, Encounter and Communication | Singer, Yvonne | Elder, Bruce; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella |
Sahar Rahmani | The Conscious Revolution of Mind/Body Integration Through the Re-Feminization of Culture | Elder, Bruce | Small, Holly |
Christina Raimondo | The New Advertainment | Elmer, Greg | Ruggles, Myles |
Ryan Ram | Canada Loses: Discourse Surrounding Moments of Loss in Canada’s National Winter Sport | Neverson, Nicole | MacLennan, Anne |
Rekha Ramachandran | Inter-action: An Intermedia Representation of the Construction of Self in Multicultural Spaces | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella | Naghibi, Nima; Longfellow, Brenda |
Kayla Ramlochand | Digital Gaydar; Locating and being located online and off | Middleton, Catherine | Ruggles, Myles |
Jessica Ranger | A Paradigm Shift: Consolidation of Canada’s Communication Industries | Baskoy, Tuna | Skinner, David |
Priya Rehal | Navigating Transcultural Identity and Post Colonialism through Steampunk and Cosplay | MacLennan, Anne | Coulter, Natalie |
Valeria Duarte Reyes | We Are Because We Create. The Importance Of Creativity In Rehumanizing Ourselves And Others | Gauntlett; David | N/A |
Pamela Rice | Who Has Time to be Online?: Staying Informed of Learning and Debates in the New Media Public Sphere | Moore, Paul | Rowland, Wade |
Teresa Ritter | Aboriginal Peoples and Broadband Technology: An analysis of the gap between community expectations and the iniatives funded by Canadian Governments | Middleton, Catherine | Cohnstaedt, Joy; Krogh, Kari |
Rebecca Roberts | “Re-moderning” MOMA: Space, power, discourse | Zemans, Joyce | Hudson, Donna |
Eve Robertson | ‘A Cultural Object Analysis of Nameplate Earrings | Fogarty, Mary | Alcedo, Patrick |
Christian Robinson | Next to Normal? Interrogating the Idea of the Abnormal Body | Bailey, Steven | Slopek, Ed; Bell, Shannon |
Rodrigues- Beaudoin | The Medium “Echoes” The Message: The Use of Nahuatl “Amate” Paper through Two Artistics Lenses | Longfellow, Brenda | Pine, Lila; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella |
Alex Rogalski | Indopunk | Evans, Barbara | Slopek, Edward |
David Ross | Digital Literacy: E-reader and Educational Technologies for Children | Hadlaw, Jan | Bailey, Steven |
Rebecca Rouse | Woyzeck | Fisher, Caitlin | Innes, Christopher; Mason, Jean; Sapra, Rahul |
Aimee Roy | The Word on the Street is “Festivalization”: A Case Study | Shields, John | Skinner, David |
Caitlin Russell | What ‘Heather Picks’ for Canada: An Analysis of the Current Bookselling Industry | Panofsky, Ruth | Cohnstaedt, Joy |
Effifa Russo | Minorities in the Media: An Analysis of South Asian Representation in Contemporary Sitcoms | MacLennan, Anne | Jamal, Amina |
Steve Ryder | Cracking Visual Skulls: Enumerating and categorizing player narratives of interpersonal conflict in the massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, as a basis for pedogogical and social change in virtual game and community design | Singer, Yvonne | MacLennan, Anne |
Boke Saisi | Black Diasporic Disasters and the Africanization of Poverty in Western print media: A case study of Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian Earthquake in the New York Times | Robinson, Danielle | Mooers, Colin; Anderson, Karen |
Esther Sampson | From One Place to an ‘Other’: Meanings, Ideologies, Identities, and Representations on the Covers of Japanese Self-Help Translations | Pelkey, Jamin | Theophanidis, Philippe; Goossen, Ted |
Maria Samur | Cyberactivism in Practice: A study of online strategies employed by Adbusters and rabble.ca | Drache, Daniel | Crow, Barbara |
Anne-Marie Santerre | Dance And Invisible Disablity: How Mental Health Issues Can Be Represented Through Dance | Robinson, Danielle | Steven, Bailey |
Ryan Scheiding | “Those Poor Civilians of Raccoon City”: The Collective Memory & Allegorical References to Atomic Bomb Victims in Resident Evil | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven |
Erika Schestak | Affective and Intimate Ties Between BTS and ARMY: K-pop, Fandom, and the Feminine Gaze | Mecija, Casey | Campbell, Miranda; Coulter, Natalie |
Peter Schmidt | Constructing Imperial Hegemony in American Media Culture | Mooers, Colin | Mazepa, Patricia |
Steven Schnoor | Ideology and Technology of the Third Reich: IBM and the Final Solution | Mooers, Colin | Hanke, Bob |
Brendan Scott | Neo-liberalism and Democratic Alternatives | Elmer, Greg | Mooers, Colin |
Yukari Seko | Online Suicidal Mumurs: Analyzing self-distructive discourses in the blogophere | Elmer, Greg | Kitzman, Andreas; Middleton, Catherine |
Andrea Shabbar | And You Thought I Was Powdering My Nose: Women’s Washroom Graffiti | Barndt, Deb | Snyder, Don |
Samantha Sharp | Tinder: The Perversity of the Swipe | Shtern, Jeremy | Coulter, Natalie |
Shon Shum | Cultured meat or frankenfood? A study of the normalizing and transforming discursive processes at work in the cultural politics of “meat”. | Pelkey, Jamin | Hadlaw, Jan |
Sula Sidnell Greene | Authenticity Under Watch | Elmer, Greg | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella; Langlois, Ganaele |
Elliot Silverstein | Media Melee: The Emergence of the Internet as a Political Vehicle in Canadian Election Campaigns | Fletcher, Fred | Shields, John |
Jennifer Sipos | The Right Road: Finding the Freedom to Create An Exploration of the Prison Metaphor in Select Autobiographical Accounts of the Creative Process | Elder, Bruce | Fletcher, Fred |
Christopher Smith | Publicity: Notes on the Politics of Public Space in the Postmodern Cityscape | Marchessault, Janine | Dowler, Kevin |
Julian Smith | Reunion: Duchamps, Cage and Ludology | Gammel, Irene | Korrick, Leslie; Bailey, Steven |
Sasha Smith | Does Your Hair Matter? Black Women and the Meaning Their Hair Has for Them | Persram, Nalini | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella; Parsons, Sarah |
Abbas Somji | Visible vs. Invisible Minorities: A Study of Toronto Newsrooms | Davis, Charles | Callison, Darcey |
Efstathia Spathara | Targeted Advertising Through Surveillance of Social Media Users’ Activities and Interests | Elmer, Greg | Zwick, Detlev |
Douglas Spielman | Immaterial Labour and the Law of Value: On the Theoretical Grounding of the Immaterial Labour Thesis and the Continued Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Value | Skinner, David | Bailey, Steven |
Elisabeth Springate | Networks of Resistance: Digital Media, Storytelling, and Acts of Resistance to Sexual Assault | Crow, Barbara | Mooers, Colin; Murphy, Michael |
Milena Stanoeva | Hate Watching Trash TV: Intersection of Class and Anti-Fandom | Bruce, Jean | Bailey, Steven; MacLennan, Anne |
E. Charlotte Stevens | Chasing Semiotic Rabbits: The Proliferation of Meaning in Doctor Who Fanvids | Brayton, Jennifer | Bailey, Steven; Lessard, Bruno |
Michael Stiavnicky | Stop! Hey, What’s that Sound?: A Critical Re-Examination of the Socio-Political functions of 1960’s Popular Music in America | MacLennan, Anne | Wekerle, Gerde |
Kerilee Stone | Medication Meditation | Driver, Susan | Jenson, Jennifer; Fisher, Jennifer |
Marisol Suarez Saiz | The Cultural Evolution of Celtic Patterns | Schwarz, Judith | Gillies, Donald |
Abigail Suissa | Rising from the Ashes: Gender, power and agency in Game of Thrones | Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie | Pelkey, Jamin |
Whitney Sweet | #FatWomenAre | Callison, Darcey | MacLennan, Anne; Uppal, Priscila |
David Synyard | Imag (e) ining the self in Self-Portraits and Selfies: The self as Media and Sexual Object | Zryd, Michael | Rogers, Ken |
Stedman Tabiri | Postmodernism and Black Masculinity: A Short Film based on Spatial Experience | Thompson, Cheryl | Gauntlett, David; Coulter, Natalie |
Taha Taha | Media and Development Communication in Syria: The Restructuring of Syrian Media | Alhassan, Amin | Skinner, David |
Nicholas Taylor | Playing by the books: Working out the Dichotemy Between “Learn and Play” | Jensen, Jennifer | Slopek, Ed |
Matthew Tegelberg | Tourism, Representation and Lonely Planet Cambodia: A critical discourse analysis. | Alhassan, Amin | Edward Slopek, Patricia Mazepa |
Emma Thompson | Left Out: A Revealing Look Into the Everyday Fashion Choices of Individuals With Mobility Disabilities | MacLennan, Anne | Reisenleitner, Markus; Halifax, Nancy |
Brigid Tierney | An Urban Encounter: Affect, Aesthetic, and the Poetics of Public Portraits | Marchessault, Janine | Tschofen, Monique |
Filip Tisma | The Sick Environment: Cities, Mobility, and Mental Health | Elder, Bruce | Callison, Darcey |
Sonja Touesnard | Workplace 2.0: How Worker Productivity Is Shaped Through Office Design | MacLennan, Anne | Fletcher, Fred; Shtern, Jeremy |
Monique Twigg | The Impact of TRIPS on UNDP Information Technology, Programmes and ICT Diffusion in Latin America: Policy Alternative | Shields, John | Coombe, Rosemary; Seaton, Elizabeth |
Sara Udow | The Global Roots Oral History Project: An Arts-based Storytelling Project Exploring Themes of Place, Food and Culture in Multiethnic Cities www.globalrootsstories.thestop.org | Barndt, Deb | Marchessault, Janine |
Peter Unwin | The Black Art: Ink and the Biological Origins of Communication | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella | Fletcher, Fredd |
Deepa Venkatesa | F se Feminism | Longfellow, Brenda | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella |
Robyn Verley | Queer Expression from the Anglophone Caribbean Diaspora: An Analysis of Queer Diasporic Artistic Expression by Staceyann Chin and Lawrence Graham-Brown | Hayward, Mark | Neverson, Nicole |
Caroline Verner | Locating Cyberpunk within the Cinema of Resistance: Visions of the Popular and the Postmodern | Forsyth, Scott | McCullough, John; Bell, Shannon |
Iris Verschuren | The depth of the urban palimpsest: exploring layers and processes of change in cities | Reisenleitner, Markus | N/A |
Sophia Goshulak | Figuring Webcomics as Alternative Digital Archives: A Research Creation Project | Gammel, Irene | Fisher, Caitlin; Coulter, Natalie |
Sophia Vlahos | Missing in Representation Aboriginal Recipes and Culinary Practices in Canadian Cookbooks | Koç, Mustafa | McCullough, John |
Annie Vong | Heidegger on the Phone: An Ontological Inquiry of the History of Telephony between 1900-1990 | Bailey, Steve | Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella |
Jordan Waldman | The Digital Divide and Social Inclusion: Media Literacy for Older Adults | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven |
William Wallace | Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: A Kitchener-Waterloo Case Study | Elmer, Greg | Latham, Robert; Hayward, Mark |
Lauren Marguerite Walter | Don’t Be A DNB: An Analysis of Ronda Rousey’s Gender Performance in the Sport Media | Neverson, Nicole | Fresco, Estee |
Randall Walter | Racial Profiling of Blacks Living in the Greater Toronto Area | Fisher, Caitlin | Tator, Carol |
Jing Wang | Individual Exposures to History: Examining Individual Existence in Postmodern History through Postmodern Cinema | Marchessault, Janine | Forsyth, Scott |
Robert Washburn | The Future of Journalism Online: A Case for e-journalism | Fletcher, Fred | Skinner, David; Middleton, Catherine |
Joshua Weale | Canadian Style Healthcare: The Media Portrayals of Canada’s Healthcare System during the US Health Reform debate of 2009-10 | Cukier, Wendy | Theissen, James |
Sisi Wei | Understanding the Accuracy of Information and User Behaviours on Short Video Sharing Platforms – A Case of Covid-19 Pandemic on Douyin (Chinese version of TikTok) | Elmer, Greg | Monti, Andrew A. |
Tamar Weinstein | The Trouble With Journalism: Mainstream News, Current Affairs and the Case of The Fifth Estate at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) | Elmer, Greg | Heynen, Rob |
Jessica Weisner (Moore) | Representations of Motherhood: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Vegan Mommyblogs | Podnieks, Elizabeth | O’Reilly, Andrea |
McKenzie White | Late-Capitalist Finger Trap: Inside Season One of Apple TV’s Severance | Reisenletner, Markus | Boyd, Jason |
Daniel Wiley | Media Development, Information Operations, and the Liberal Peace | Latham, Robert | Mazepa, Patricia; Mooers, Colin |
Arlene Williams | The Political Economy of Communication and the Policy Communities Approach: Connecting Critical View of the Media to Post-Pluralist Analyses fo the Policy Process | Salter, Liora | Dowler, Kevin; Johns, Carolyn |
Cheryl Williams | Courting the Child Consumer: The Role of the Nineteenth Century Press in Children’s Commercial Enculturation, 1835–1900 | Moore, Paul | MacLennan, Anne |
Lesley Williams | Manoeuvring the Peacemaking Myth: Canadian New Media Reports in the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan | Mazepa, Patricia | Whitworth, Sandra |
David Williamson | The Impact of the Freemium Economic Model on Virtual Play Spaces | Pelkey, Jamin | Jenson, Jennifer |
Catherine Wilshire | Modes of Listening and their Implications to Audience Experience of Orchestral Concerts, with a Case Study of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Bailey, Steven | MacLennan, Anne; Moore, Paul |
Deborah Wilson | Consumer Culture, Gender & The Construction of The Female Shopaholic | Brayton, Jennifer | Siegel, Arthur |
Leigh Wilson Mattson | Jookin’ to Empowerment: How African Americans used Blues Culture to Reclaim Knowledge Along the Blues Highway in the Mississippi Delta | Reisenletner, Markus | Redding, Arthur F |
Alison Withers | Recipes of a Nation: Themes of Canadian National Identity in Anita Stewart’s Canada | Coulter, Natalie | Koç, Mustafa |
Jess Woods | Human Computer “intra-action” in New Media Literacy | Viseu, Ana | Rowland, Wade |
Mark Woods | Outrageously Political: “The Use of Queer Theory and Camp in the Subversion of Heterosexist Action Adventure Film” | Denisoff, Dennis | Longfellow, Brenda |
Kristin Wozniak | Perceiving Democracy: Exploring the Democratic and Community Development Potential of Student Newspapers on University Campuses | Fletcher, Fred | Cukier, Wendy |
Jie Wu | From “Visions” of Communal Violence Towards a School of Hope: Archival Photographic Research and Storytelling with Talimi Haq School Educators in Howrah, West Bengal, India | Bailey, Steven C; Pantev Boris | Snyder, Dan |
Lan (Sheila) Xu | Changes in China’s Media Since Economic Reform | Allen, Gene | Seaton, Beth |
Sara Yahyaei | Exploring Deaf Culture in Canada and Iran Through Literature | Chandler, Eliza | Ignagni, Esther |
Zhicong Yang | From a Case Study to see the changes in Chinese Television Industry in the new century | Feldman, Seth | Mooers, Colin |
Nikki Yeboah | Poverty Inc: An Investigation into the Commodification of Poverty | Alhassan, Amin | Skinner, David |
Cindy Yip | Contribution of Asian Dance to the Conception of Canadian Identity | Cohnstaedt, Joy | Odom, Selma |
Dan (Angela) Yu | Chinese Television Reform | Allen, Gene | Seaton, Elizabeth |
Wenjun Zhang | Canada and China: A Case Study of Selected Film Co-Productions | Cohnstaedt, Joy | Mooers, Colin |
Sandra Zichermann | Realistic Promises? Or Unrealistic Goals? Canadian Government’s Response to Romanow’s Health Care Funding Initiatives | Fletcher, Fred | Shields, John |
Tyler Sinclair | The Representation of Caribbean Culture in Popular Music | MacLennan, Anne | Nicole Neverson |
Paula (Elena) Beck | UnBarbie: Queering the Image of the 11-inch Fashion Doll | MacLennan, Anne | Paul S. Moore and Monique Tschofen |
Name | Dissertation | Supervisor | Committee |
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Samantha Abel | Let’s talk about your weight”: How fatphobia manifests in therapy | Friedman, May | MacLennan, Anne; Gingras, Jacqui |
Ahmed Abul | Press Freedom and Democracy in Bangladesh: A Study of Press Regulations | Fletcher, Fred | Cukier, Wendy; Drache, Daniel |
Samuel McCready | Playing and Making History: How Game Design And Gameplay Afford Opportunities For A Critical Engagement With The Past | Jenson, Jennifer | Boyd, Jason; Smith, Bryan |
Murat Akser | N/A | Feldman, Seth | Drache, Daniel; Fletcher, Fred |
Christopher Alton | Zombies, Phallic Monsters, and Rocket Launchers:An Examination of Gender Representations and Simulations in the Resident EvilSeries | N/A | Langlois, Ganaele; McCullough, John |
Pamela Andrews | Somatic Anacrusis: An Experiential Poetics of Deborah Hay’s Choreography and Practice in the Solo At Once | Bailey, Steven | Robinson, Danielle; Levin, Laura |
Susan Ashley | Museum Renaissance? Revisioning ‘publicness’ at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. | Cohnstaedt, Joy | Mooers, Colin; Prokopow, Michael |
Nicholas Balaisis | Seeing for the First Time: Cinema Spectatorship, the Public Sphere, and the Making of Cuban Revolutionary Subjects | Zryd, Michael | Dowler, Kevin; Marchessault, Janine |
Ann Barrow | Homeless on the Range: Masculinity and The Orphan Myth in the American Western, 1950–1990 | Feldman, Seth | Cameron, Evan; Leonard, Gary (UT) |
Andrew Bieler | Exhibiting Climate Change: An Examination of Thresholds of Arts-Sciences Collaborations in the Context of Learning for a Sustainable Future | Marchessault, Janine | Barndt, Deborah; Crichlow, Warren |
Mary-Ann Boateng | Community, Housing, and Crime: Framing the News Coverage of Lawrence Heights and Rexdale | MacLennan, Anne | Hayward, Mark; Thompson, Cheryl |
Kelly Bronson | Framing the Debate: How Scientism in the language of the law binds public-biotechnology engagement | Berland, Jody | Ruggles, Myles; Imhotep, Edward |
Roberta Buiani | Viral Culture(s): An Investigation into the cultural lives of Computer Viruses | Marchessault, Janine | Tenhaaf, Nell; Elmer, Greg |
Darcey Callison | Dancing Masculinity for Hollywood: The American Dream, Whiteness and the Movement Vocabulary within Hollywood’s Choreography for Men | Crow, Barbara | Forsyth, Scott; Elder, Bruce |
Alex Chalk | Producing Play: The Political Economy of “Actual Play” Media | Jenson, Jennifer; Dubois, Louis-Etienne | Langlois, Ganaele; Bailey, Steven |
David Clifton | A Lexicon of Force: Framing Language and Television News Coverage of the 2003 War in Iraq | Drache, Daniel | Fletcher, Fred; Allen, Gene |
Nicole Cohen | N/A | Mazepa, Patricia | Vosko, Leah; Ross, Stephanie |
Thomas Cooke | What’s That Noise? Or, a Case Against Digital Privacy as a Matter of Regulation and Control | Latham, Robert E | Hadlaw, Jan; Jones-Imhotep, Edward |
Michelle Coyne | This Project Can Be Upcycled Where Facilities Are Available: An Adventure Through Toronto’s Food/Waste Scape | Moore, Paul | Skinner, David; Bailey, Steven |
Constance Crompton | Making the Modern Man: Eugen Sandow and Muscled Masculinity | Janzen, Lorraine | Lightman, Bernie; Braun, Martac |
Trevor Cunnington | Schadenfreude, Villainy, and Empathy: the Ideological Life of Media Representations of “White Trash” | McCullough, John | Forsyth, Scott; Prokopow, Michael |
Michael Curran | One Nation Under the Market: Mediated Narratives of the 2008 Crisis in America | Bailey, Steven | Moore, Paul; Dowler, Kevin |
Brady Curlew | Play/Counterplay: The Cultural Politics of Digital Game Modification | Marchessault, Janine | Crow, Barbara; Elmer, Greg |
Patricio Davila | Visualization as Assemblage: How Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice | Marchessault, Janine | Fisher, Caitlin & Hadlaw, Jan |
Joshua Dittrich | Geosonics: Bodies, Instruments, Interfaces | Cecchetto, David | Marchessault, Janine |
Tamar Michelle Faber | “Now I See The Importance of History”: Tracing The Geneaology of Hip Hop, Young People and The Academy | Diamini, Nombuso | Thompson, Cheryl; Mecija, Casey; Campbell, Miranda; Coulter, Natalie |
Lai-Tze Fan | Pre | Digital Liminalities: A Hermeneutics of the Intermedial and Materiality in the Print Intermedial Novel | Tschofen, Monique | Reisenleitner, Markus; Fisher, Caitli |
Naomi Fraser | ‘We are all connected’: internationalism, communication and Canadian identity | Berland, Jody | Shields, John; Isin, Ergin |
Anna Friz | The Radio of the Future Redux: Rethinking Transmission through Experiments in Radio Art | Bailey, Steven | Fisher, Jennifer; Marchessault, Janine |
Amir Ganjavie | Contemporary Hollywood and the Spirit of Hope: America, Celluloid, and the Desire (mis)called (dis)Utopia | Bell, Shannon | Marchessault, Janine; McCullough, John |
Tyrone Hall | Global Narratives & the Vulnerable Frontiers: A Critical Assessment of Global Climate Change Communication Processes & Traditional Retentions | MacLennan, Anne | Bailey, Steven; Ojo, Tokunbo; MacLennan, Anne; Tegelberg, Matthew; Skinner, David |
Rebecca Halliday | The Live Fashion Show in Mediatized Consumer Culture | Ingram, Susan | Pedersen Isabel; Schweitzer, Marlis Erica |
Milan Hanan | The Media-Foreign Policy Relationship: Pakistan’s Media Image and U.S. Foreign Policy | Fletcher, Fred | Cukier, Wendy; Drache, Daniel |
Daniel Harley | The Politics of Consumer VR: Framing Contemporary Virtual Reality | Jensen, Jennifer | Nolan, Jason; Mazalek, Ali |
Alison Harvey | N/A | Crow, Barbara | Coombe, Rosemary; Jenson, Jennifer |
Jaigris Hodson | Followers, Users and Friends: Technology, Participation and Organizational Stories on the Google, Facebook, and Twitter Blogs 2006–2011 | Drache, Daniel | Cukier, Wendy; Fletcher, Fred |
Emilie Hurst | Worshipping at the Shrine of Wagner: Fandom, Media and Richard Wagner | Bailey, Steven C | Bowman, Rob; Dowler, Kevin Leslie |
Steve Jankowski | The Trouble with Knowing: Wikipedian consensus and the political design of encyclopedic media | MacLennan, Anne | Obar, Jonathan; Hadlaw, Jan |
Lianrui Jia | Cooptation, Collusion Contestations; Development, Regulation and Globalization of Internet in China | Middleton, Catherine | Elmer, Greg; Ojo, Tokunbo |
Constance John | The evolution of the Canadian Film industry in Quebec (1968–1983) | Cohnstaedt, Joy | Shields, John; Sauvageau, Florian |
Jon Johnson | Pathways to the Eighth Fire: Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto | McNab, David | Fletcher, Fred; Angus, Lynne; Newhouse, David |
Naveen Joshi | Arranged Identities: Second Generation South Asian Canadians in Shaadi.com | Crow, Barbara | Dua, Enakshi; Coombe, Rosemary |
Aleksandra Kaminska | Mediating Poles: Media Art and Critical Experiments of the Polish Site, 2004–2009 | Marchessault, Janine | Trifonova, Temenuga; Eichhorn, Kate |
Lewis Kaye | Hearing Space: The Social Architecture of Aural Experience | Myles Ruggles | Herman, Andrew; Marchessault, Janine |
Shahbaz Khayambashi | Visualizing Struggle: The Use of Imagery in the Continuing Story of the Black Lives Matter Movement | Bell, Shannin M | MacLennan, Anne; Bailey, Steven C |
Shila Khayambashi | Peer Aggression, Canadian Style: Multiculturalism and Xenobullying | Visano, Livy A | Goulding, Jay; Foster, Lorne |
Mirah Jennifer Kirshner | American Girl: A Critical Inquiry Into Dolls, Childhood, and Consumer Culture | Podnieks, Liz | Bailey, Steven; Cowdy, Cheryl |
Gregory Klages | Representative (of) Democracy: The Rise and Decline of the Keynesian Era in Canadian Visual Arts Policy (1941–1984) | Salter, Liora | Mooers, Colin; Nelles, Viv |
Helmut Klassen | “Life As It Is” A Renovation of the Project and the City | Elder, Bruce | Marchessault, Janine; Tschofen, Monique |
Christine Korte | Refusing the End of History: The Politics and Aesthetics of FrankCastorf’s Volksbühne | Bailey, Steven | Bailey, Steven; Dowler, Leslie; Slopek, E; Hadlaw, Jan; Mueller, G; Siegal, M |
Irena Knezevic | Discourses of Privatization and Industrialization: Agricultural Changes in the Former Yugoslavia | Fletcher, Fred | Coombe, Rosemary; Shields, John; Koç, Mustafa |
Duncan Koerber | Communication as Mobilization: The Development of Newspaper-based Political Parties in Upper Canada, 1820–1841 | Allen, Gene | Fletcher, Fred; Skinner, David; Allen, Gene |
Kaitlyn Kribs | From Piracy Panic to Platform Praise (and Back Again): Digitization’s Impact on Making, Moving, and Monetizing Music in Canada | Campbell; Miranda | Bailey, Steven; Skinner, David |
Alysse Kushinski | The Potential of Leaks: Mediation, Materiality, & Incontinent Domains | N/A | Hadaw, Jan; Marchessault, Janine; Straw, Will; Bell, Shannon; Bailey, Steven; Bunch, Mary |
Martha Ladly | Eros, Women, and Technology | Elder, Bruce | Fisher, Jennifer; Jenson, Jennifer |
Andrew Laing | A Critical Evaluation of the Methodological Underpinnings of Agenda—Setting Research, and a New Media Approach | Fletcher, Fred | Davis, Charles; MacDermid, Robert |
Ganaele Langlois | N/A | Crow, Barbara | Bailey, Steve; Elmer, Greg |
Sabine Lebel | The Life Cycle of the Computer: A Study in the Materialities of Risk | Berland, Jody | Fitzpatrick, Blake; Prokopow, Michael |
Cynthia Leibel | Anatomy Of Higher Education Fundraising In Canada | MacLennan, Anne | Coulter, Natalie; Obar, Jonathan |
Steven Logan | Modernist Urbanism in the Age of Automobility: Producing Space in the Suburbs of Toronto and Prague | Berland, Jody | Marchessault, Janine; Keil, Roger |
Bryn Ludlow | “What makes a great story?”: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives On Digital Stories By Youth Formerly In Foster Care In Canada. | Flicker, Sarah | Crawford, Allison; Bailey, Steven |
Monica Macdonald | Producing the Public Past: Canadian History on CBC Television, 1952–2002 | Fletcher, Fred | Cohnstaedt, Joy; Heron, Craig |
Shana MacDonald | Between Frames: Feminist Experimental Media 1960–2010 | Marchessault, Janine | Longfellow, Brenda; Levin, Laura; Zryd, Michael |
Timothy MacNeill | Culturally Sustainable Development: Maya Cosmovision, El Centro Pluricultural Para la Democracia, and The Idea of Development | Ruggles, Myles | Alhassan, Amin; Spotton-Visano, Brenda |
Heather Maguire | Airwaves & Waterways: Mobile Networks, Information & Communication Technologies | Crow, Barbara | Middleton, Catherine; Adelson, Naomi |
Michael Marlatt | “No one said anything abut driving in Film Preservation 101!”: The Lived Experience of Disability, Chronis Illness, and Neurodiversity in Moving Image Archival Education | Marchessault, Janine | Latsis, Dimitrios; Chandler, Eliza |
Sara Martel | Seeing Invisible Subjects: The Biopolitics of Perinatal Loss Photograph | Murray, Stuart | Bailey, Steven; Davidson, Deborah |
George Martin | From Lifeworld to City Life: Rethinking how the Culture of Everyday Life in Cities Engages Urban Administration | Bailey, Steven C | Blum Alan; Reisenleitner, Markus |
Alejandro Mayoral Banos | Tech Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel: Decolonial Design Principles within Digital Technologies through the Development of the Indigenous Friends Platform | Crow, Barbara | Green, Ruth; Chen, Stephen; Couture, Stephane |
Victoria McArthur | Me, Myself, and I(nterface): An Analysis of Character Creation Interfaces and Affordances in Massively Multiplayer Online Games | Jenson, Jennifer | Bailey, Steven; Nolan, Jason |
David McIntosh | Globalization, Networks and Audiovisual Spaces: Shifting Representational Relations in Canada, Mexico and Argentina | Longfellow, Brenda | Shields, John; Drache, Daniel |
Brianna Wiens | Moving with Stories of “Me too.”: Towards a Theory and Praxis of Intersectional Entanglements | MacLennan, Anne | Danisch, Robert; Marchessault, Janine |
Caitlin McKinney | The Cultural Politics of Digital Media in Queer Archival Contexts | Driver, Susan | Noble, Bobby; Eichhorn, Kate |
David Meurer | Network Narrative: Prose Narrative Fiction and Participatory Cultural Production in Digital Information and Communication Networks | Fisher, Caitlin | Tschofen, Monique; Coombe, Rosemary |
Aidan Moir | Punk, Obamacare, and a Jesuit: Branding the Iconic Ideals of Vivienne Westwood, Barack Obama, and Pope Francis | MacLennan, Anne | Hadlaw, Jan; Bailey, Steve |
Alla Miroshnichenko | Multi-Modal Game Design as a Medium of Digital Communication | Jenson, Jen | Gelb, David; Wakefield, Graham |
Tanner Mirrlees | Cultural Mediations of American Empire | Mooers, Colin | Forsyth, Scott; McNally, Dave |
Aimee Mitchell | Amateur Itinerant Filmmaking in 1940s Ontario: A Case Study in the Role of Activists in Preserving Marginal Cinema in Canadians Local Archives | Zryd, Michael | Marchessault, Janine; Moore, Paul |
Ravindra Mohabeer | Looking at “made up” girls: Linking girls, life skills and media education | A., Goodrum, | Crow, Barbara; Jensen, Jennifer |
Janice Nathanson | From Praxis to Theory: Expanding and Enriching Social Marketing | Seaton, Beth | Ruggles, Myles; Tschofen, Monique; Fletcher, Fred |
Bahar Nasirzadeh | A Genealogy of Consumer Surveillance: From the First Public Market to Eaton’s Department Store to Amazon | Elmer, Greg | Langlois, Ganaele; Latham, Robert |
Evren Ozselcuk | Turkey’s Internal Other: Embodiments of Taşra in the Works of Orhan Pamuk, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Fatih Akin | Tschofen, Monique | Antze, Paul; Arat-Koç, Sedef |
Amanda Oye | “Reimagining Public Service Broadcasting News for the Digital Age.” | Skinner, David | Ojo, Tokunbo; MacLennan, Anne |
Helen Papagiannis | Augmented Reality as a New Medium: Remediation and Novel Form | Fisher, Caitlin | Murphy, Michael; Marchessault, Janine |
Felan Parker | Playing Games With Art: The Cultural and Aesthetic Legitimation of Digital Games | Jenson, Jennifer | Dowler, Kevin; Zryd, Michael |
Nancy Paterson | Bandwidth is Political: Reachability in the Public Internet | Murphy, Michael | Durlak, Jerry; Fletcher, Fred |
Jonathan Petrychyn | Networks of Feeling | N/A | Straw, Will; Bociurkiw, Marusya; MacLennan, Anne; Bailey, Steven |
Richard Pope | Stupid is: Traversing the Sinthome as the Goal of Cultural Psychoanalysis | Marchessault, Janine | Hyashi, Sharon; O’Neill, John |
Scott Preston | Horror and Reenchantment: A Supernatural Genre in a Secular Age | Marchessault, Janine | Bailey, Steven; Tschofen, Monique |
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof | Why Film, Why Freud, Why Now: The Revolt and Politics of Cinema in Digital Age | Elder, Bruce | O’Neill, John; Picchione, John |
Sophia Ricciardone | Manufacturing Dissent: A Mixed Methodological Analysis of Human Thought Algorithmic Mediation, And Political Electioneeing on Twitter | Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie; Pelkey, Jamin | Bailey, Steven C |
Ian Robinson | Cartographic Projections of the City: Avantgarde Cinema and the Production of Locality | Marchessault, Janine | Bailey, Steve; Hayashi, Sharon |
Laurence Robitaille | Capoeira as a resource: Multiple uses of culture under conditions of transnational neoliberalism | Coombe, Rosemary | Robinson, Danielle; Little, Kenneth |
Philip Rose | Pragmatism not Idealism: Radiohead, Technology, and the Global Movement for Change. | Bowman, Rob | Marchessault, Janine; MacLennan, Anne |
Richard Rosenbaum | Consciousnesses is Story-Shaped: Mapping Isomorphic Structures of Narrative and Human Cognition | Pekler, Jamin | Walsh Matthews, Stephanie; Ciabatta, David |
Wade Rowland | Ethics and Artificial Persons: Structural Impediments to Ethical Behaviour in Modern Information Media | Seaton, Beth | Noble, David; Mooers, Colin |
Jennifer Louise Meness | Message in the Smoke: Spirit Acts of Transfer, Liminality, and Embodied Relationships in Contemporary Powwow. | Koleszar-Green, Ruth | Crow, Barbara; Haig-Brown, Celia |
Jennifer Ryan | Royal Beatings? An Exploration into the Shift from Development ‘Gifts’ to Development ‘Goods’ | Alhassan, Amin | Drache, Daniel; MacLennan, Anne |
Giovanni Salas | Reclaiming Craftsmanship | N/A | Slopek, E.; Murphy, M.; Bailey, Steven; MacLennan, Anne; Thompson, K.; & Logan, B. |
Philip Savage | Arts Intervention: Activating Cultural Memory for Social Change | Fletcher, Fred | Shields, John; Raboy, Marc |
Lisa Schincairol | Lelawala at the Brink: Visual Culture and Colonial History in Niagara Falls, Ontario | Dowler, Kevin | Barndt, Deborah; Tschofen, Monique |
Giovanni Salas | Reclaiming Craftsmanship | N/A | Slopek, E.; Murphy, M.; Bailey, Steven; MacLennan, Anne; Thompson, K.; & Logan, B. |
Philip Savage | Arts Intervention: Activating Cultural Memory for Social Change | Fletcher, Fred | Shields, John; Raboy, Marc |
Lisa Schincairol | Lelawala at the Brink: Visual Culture and Colonial History in Niagara Falls, Ontario | Dowler, Kevin | Barndt, Deborah; Tschofen, Monique |
Robinder Kaur Sehdev | Unsettling the settler at Niagara Falls: reading colonial culture through the Maid of the Mist | Berland, Jody | O’Neill, John; Sekyi-Otu, Ato |
Yukari Seko | Interrogating a Politics of Time: Temporality & Difference from the Agora to the Airport | Elmer, Greg | Bailey, Steve; Nolan, Jason |
Sarah Ravi Sharma | Temporality and difference from the Agora to the airport: towards a theory of power-chronography | Berland, Jody | Slopek, Ed; Dowler, Kevin |
Tina Sikka | Recuperating Politics from Deconstruction: A Pragmatist Critique | Ruggles, Myles | Coombe, Rosemary; Alhassan, Amin |
Karen Skardzius | I Stream, You Stream, We all Stream: Gender, Labour, and the Politics of Online Streaming | Jensen, Jen | Boyd, Jason; Jensen, Jen |
Christopher Smith | Remapping Urban Addiction: A user’s guide to the city. | Marchessault, Janine | Little, Kenneth; Gaetz, Stephen |
David Smith | Theorizing Avatar Sexualities: A Grounded Theory Study on the Erotics of Second Life | Marchessault, Janine | Fels, Deborah; Goodrum, Abby |
Kelsey Speakman | Mediated Meat: Buying and Selling Beef in Canadian Supermarkets | Berland, Jody | Koc, Mustafa; Sandilands Catronia |
Sarah Stang | Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Abject Female Monstrosity in Roleplaying Games | Jenson, Jennifer | Boyd, Jason; Fridman, May |
Carolyn Steele | NFB/Interactive: Understand the Role of the Interface in the Production of Meaning in Interactive Online Documentaries | Fisher, Caitlin | Bailey, Steven |
Chad Story | Obscuring Austerity: The Politics and Practices of ‘Citizen-Centred’ Design | Hadlaw, Jan | Obar, Jonathan; Coulter, Natalie |
Sara Swain | Feral Ecologies: A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Media | Zryd, Michael | Marchessault, Janine; Moore, Paul |
Michael Thorn | Know Thyself: Truth and Confession Mediating Religion and Psychology in the Christian Ex-Gay Movement | Moore, Paul | Lessard, Bruno; Skinner, David |
Joseph Turcotte | Creative Transformation and the Knowledge-Based Economy: Intellectual Property and Access to Knowledge Under Informational Capitalism | Coombe, Rosemary | Baskoy, Tuna; Ojo, Tokunbo |
Scott Uzelman | Direct Action Against Enclosure: “Anti-Proletarian” struggles for the “New Commons” | Moores, Colin | Skinner, David; McNally, David |
Jennifer VanderBurgh | City Nation and Television: The Signification of Toronto Television Drama and the Consolidation of Centre-Margin Relations | Marchessault, Janine | Feldman, Seth; Morris, Peter |
Carmen Victor | Arctic Contours: Northern Media, Canada and the Anthropocene. | Marchessault, Janine | Hayward, Mark; Bailey, Steven |
Laura Visan | Divided We Remain’ Civic Participation practices and Network Development Strategies in the Case of Romanian Immigrants from Toronto | Shields, John | Cohen, Rina; Alhassan, Amin |
Tianchi (Jason) Wang | “Urban Walking: Configuring the Modern City as Cultural and Spatial Practice” | Gammel, Irene | Marchessault, Janine; Reisenleitner, Markus |
Martin Watson | The Sublime as Model: Formal Complexity in Joyce, Eisenstein and Stockhausen | Elder, Bruce | Cody, Susan; Balfour, Ian |
Nataniel Weiner | The Not-So-Secret Vice: Menswear, Masculinity & Consumption in Six Online Communities | N/A | Bailey, Steven; Cole, Shaun; Vanstone, G.; Reisenleitner, Markus; MacLennan, Anne; Muzzatti, Stephen |
Melissa West | Marketing Madonna: Celebrity agency across the cultural industry | Berland, Jody | Moores, Colin; Skinner, David |
Jessica Whitehead | Movie-Going On the Margins: The Mascioli Film Circuit of Northeastern Ontario | Moore, Paul | MacLennan, Anne; Machessault, Janine |
Kyler Zeleny | Visualizing the Canadian Prairies: Photographic Representations of Rurality | Moore, Paul | Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella; Hadlaw, Jan; Fitzpatrick, Blake; van Herk, Aritha; Moore, Paul; Brushwood Rose, Chloë |
Han Zhang | The Root of Excellence: An Interpretive Approach to Understanding Elder Care within Transnational Chinese Families in Canada | Bailey, Steven | Blum, Alan; Ingram, Susan |
Jeff Donison | More than a Monolith: Podcasting Authentic Self-Concepts and Cultural Affiliations in Canada | MacLennan, Anne | Steve Bailey and Paul S. Moore |
Axelle Demus | Queering the Cable Airwaves: The Evolution of LGBTQ2+ Community Television in Ontario, Canada (1977-2001) | MacLennan, Anne | Janine Marchessault and Paul S. Moore |
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