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The research interests of our faculty reflect our diversity and excellence as a department. Our faculty engage with communications from diverse vantage points ranging from media policy, politics and power, international development, and gender and identity. These faculty interests are reflected in our comprehensive curriculum which ranges from traditional forms of mass communication to mobile technologies, web 2.0 and nanotechnology.

Browse the cutting edge research from our tireless and dedicated faculty members who continue to push boundaries and gain recognition for their contributions. We hope their efforts help and inspire your work. Please feel free to reach out to us for collaboration opportunities.

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Identity and Industry: Making Media Multicultural in Canada

by Mark Hayward

Identity and Industry explores how ethnocultural media in Canada developed between the end of the Second World War and the arrival of digital media. Through chapters dedicated to film exhibition, newspapers, radio, and television, Mark Hayward documents the industrial and institutional frameworks that defined the role of media in Canadian multiculturalism. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book situates late twentieth-century "ethnic" media at the intersection of demand, cultural integration, and the changing economics of popular culture.

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David Skinner
2025

A Political Economy of Canadian Broadcasting takes readers from the days of the telegraph to the current digital age, examining the ...

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Bob Hanke
2024

This book bridges media, technocultural, urban and journalism studies to examine the role of journalism in relation to a smart ...

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Ganaele Langlois
2024

Textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period. Up until the 19th century, civilizations throughout ...

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Jeff Nagy and the DISCO Network
2024

The book examines how refusing to engage in new technologies, and being skeptical of them, can lead to new possibilities ...

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Florence Jacobowitz
2024

Lecturer Florence Jacobowitz, who has worked within the Department of Communications & Media, as well as the Department of Humanities, ...

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Robert W. Gehl and Sean Lawson
2022

The United States is awash in manipulated information about everything from election results to the effectiveness of medical treatments. Corporate ...

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Dalton Kehoe
2021

“Two Minds, Three talks, One Life” is built around the idea that every conversation is important at two levels (1) ...

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Mark Hayward
2020

Mark Hayward: Identity and Industry: Making Media Multicultural in Canada

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Ganaele Langlois
2020

More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake Really Fake takes up ...

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Wade Rowland
2019

Wade Rowland: Morality by Design: Technology’s Challenge to Human Values

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Robert Heynen
2019

Robert Heynen and Emily van der Meulen (Eds.): Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories (2019)

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Robert W. Gehl
2018

The term “Dark Web” conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points out ...

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Susan Driver, Natalie Coulter
2018

Driver, Susan, Coulter, Natalie (Eds.): Youth Mediations and Affective Relations. Explores intersections between critical youth studies, affect theory and media ...

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Robert W. Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva
2017

Many users of the Internet are aware of bots: automated programs that work behind the scenes to come up with ...

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Anne MacLennan
2017

Michael Windover and Anne MacLennan: Seeing, Selling, and Situation Radio in Canada, 1922-1956

engaging affects, thinking feelings

Susan Driver
2016

Susan Driver, Kara Stone, Melanie Patenaude: Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings: Social, Political and Artistic Practices (2016)