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Patricia Mazepa

Politics and Policy

University   York University
E-Mail Address   pamazepa@yorku.ca
Phone Number   (416)736-2100 ext. 30164
Office Location   TEL Building, 3060
Office Hours   TBA

Education

B.A. (Ottawa); M.A. (Carleton); Ph.D. (Carleton)

Biography

Professor Mazepa was appointed to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Arts, Division of Social Sciences in July 2004. Prior to joining York University, she was a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is currently the course director for “Introduction to Politics, Policy and the Media” and “Media, Publics and Democracy” at the undergraduate level, and “Armed Conflict, Peace and the Media” at the graduate level. Dr. Mazepa continues to work on her book “Battles on the Cultural Front: Labour Culture in Canada Between the Wars,” and is editing a volume on alternative media in Canada. She also has several projects in progress on government propaganda and control over communication in Canadian history.

Research Interests

Critical political economy of communication with a concentration on the relationship between politics, policy and media, the labour of communication and culture, and alternative media in Canada from the twentieth century up to the present.

Current Research Interests:
Regressive alternative media; media literacy in Canada; history of labour at the CBC; Canadian and U.S. government control and production of media (particularly WWI, II and Cold Wars); and the militarization of communication and culture.

Selected Publications

(2008) “Dismantling Empire: The Human Condition, Propaganda and a Post-Cybernetic Media?” in Letts, G., Haig, J. and Vardalos, M. (Eds.) Engaging Empire: A Critical and Interdisciplinary Approach. Human Condition Series. Boca Raton, FL: Brown Walker Press. [in press].

(2007) “Democracy of, in and through Communication: Struggles around Public Service in Canada in the First Half of the Twentieth Century” Info: The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media. Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 45-56.

With Vincent Mosco (2003) “High Tech Hegemony: Transforming Canada’s Capital into Silicon Valley North” in Artz, Lee and Kamalipour, Yahya R. (eds.) The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony. New York: SUNY. (pp. 93-112).

With Christopher Bodnar (2001) “Managing the Media: Communicating Labour at High Tech U” Journal of Social and Political Thought , Special Issue, available: http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/

 

 

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Harold [Innis] taught us how to use the bias of culture and communication as an instrument of research. By directing attention to the bias, or distorting power of the dominant imagery and technology of any culture, he showed us how to understand cultures.
~ Marshall McLuhan