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Featured Speaker from the Black Lives Matter Movement, Brieanne Berry Crossfield in Communication Social Movements

In Professor Petrick’s class Communicating Social Movements (AP/COMN 3221 3.00) speaker, Brieanne Berry Crossfield discussed Beyond hashtag activism: BLM-TO and the media on February 14th, 2019 Brieanne Berry Crossfield is an organizer and communications specialist, with a focus on equity and public education. Both her non-profit and academic work is influenced by her deep commitment […]

Social Media Clickwraps and the “Manufacture of Consent”

Professor Obar’s article on Social Media Clickwraps and the “Manufacture of Consent” was featured on “The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business”. The article discusses how internet users interact with the terms and conditions they are presented with when using online services. The whole article can be […]

Career Conversations Panel with Communication Studies Grads

March 5th, 2019 2pm-4pm Senate Chambers N940  Ross Building  Wondering what to do with your Communication Studies degree? Want to meet York Alumni and other professionals working in the communications field? Connect with graduates from the Communication Studies program who are currently enjoying their careers and get the inside scoop on what it’s really like […]

Social Media Clickwraps and the “Manufacture of Consent”

Professor Obar was featured on ProMarket, The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. A copy of the article could be found below, this article was copied from here. A new study identifies a political economic interface design strategy that threatens privacy protections by maintaining “the biggest lie […]

IDRL Speaker Series presents Jonathan Obar Privacy! February 11

Apply to Graduate!

As we enter the Winter semester, we would like to invite students to keep up with deadlines regarding graduation. If you are in your final semester, you have to apply to graduate. Once you apply, York will evaluate your eligibility to graduate. If you would like to graduate in the June 2019 convocation please apply […]

York University Magazine, Don’t Touch That Dial

An award-winning exhibition (and book) broadcasts the latest on Canadian community radio. photography by Chris Robinson A large 1930s-era radio – the kind that looks more antique furniture than electronica – occupies what little floor space is left over from the piles of books and other scholarly paraphernalia crowding Anne MacLennan’s tiny office on Keele Campus. […]

Girls Making Movies

On December 30th, grade 6 girls from two Toronto schools were thrilled to visit us here in Communication Studies and use our cutting edge media lab to make their own movies. Coming to York was the culmination of SSHRC-funded research project Embodying the Tween: Living Girlhood in Global and Digital Spaces, directed by Prof. Natalie […]

Public Panel on Climate and Communication

This panel will be featuring speakers Tyrone Hall and Carmen Victor from the Communication Studies Department. Carmen Victor is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York/Ryerson Universities. Her writing on contested landscapes, installation art, cinemas of the circumpolar North, and time-based and experimental film & media has appeared […]

Community Conversation with Derek Hrynyshyn

York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) hosted “Social Media – The Great Equalizer?” with communication studies Professor Derek Hrynyshyn on Nov. 20, exploring the new languages of social media as part of the LA&PS Community Conversations series. Derek Hrynyshyn (image: Stephanie Ross) New forms of communication, such as memes and emojis, […]