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New co-edited book on Surveillance

Communication Studies faculty member Rob Heynen just published a co-edited book on surveillance: Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance Edited by Emily van der Meulen and Robert Heynen University of Toronto Press, April 2016 Expanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the significance of […]

Communication Studies Departmental Review Focus Groups

The Department is currently undergoing a University-mandated review of our Program.  Some of you may have received a request to fill in an online survey.  That part of the review of students’ views of the Department is now over (and thanks to all who filled it in), but there is another opportunity for you to […]

COMN Chair/PhD Students Defends Funding for Local News

On February 3, Communication Studies Chair, Professor David Skinner, along with PhD students in the York & Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture -Amanda Oye, Margaret Reid, Joseph Turcotte and Emilia Zboralska – appeared before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in Gatineau, Québec at the Commission’s review of the policy framework for local community television. The […]

COMN Studies & SOSC Celebrate Student Success

Student success was recently recognized at the annual Social Science & Communication Studies Awards Ceremony, where 43 students were honoured for their dedication and commitment, as well as for their inspiring work both in and out of the classroom. Held Nov. 19 at the Underground Restaurant, award recipients, professors, support staff, friends and family gathered […]

Departments of Social Science and Communication Studies hand out awards, celebrate student success 2016

Student success was recently recognized at the annual Social Science & Communication Studies Awards Ceremony, where 43 students were honoured for their dedication and commitment, as well as for their inspiring work both in and out of the classroom. Held Nov. 19 at the Underground Restaurant, award recipients, professors, support staff, friends and family gathered […]

Call for Papers: Future Communications Conference for New and Prospective Graduate Students

Deadline for proposals:  Monday, 9 November. Graduating BA students and new Grad students are welcome to apply to present at the third-annual “Future Communications” conference, hosted by the Joint Ryerson-York Grad Program in Communication & Culture (“ComCult”) on Friday, December 11. The event is intended especially to support the development of student researchers in early stages. […]

Information about the Field Experience Course (AP/COMN 4140 6.0)

No applications necessary starting the 19/20 school year. All students welcome, new and old. For more updated information please click here. This course is specifically designed to help students entering into their fourth year of study to gain experience in the workplace. Students have the opportunity to work in a variety of organizations including not-for-profit, […]

The awards in the Department of Communication Studies were given to the following students

With a room full of family, friends, staff and faculty in attendance, a group of outstanding students in the Departments of Social Science and Communication Studies received a total of 40 awards at a ceremony held on November 19, 2014 in the Underground Restaurant. The awards in the Department of Communication Studies were given to […]