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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.

Featured Publication

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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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Cover of book Smarter Toronto

Bob Hanke
2024

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

Cover of the book How Textile Communicates by Ganaele Langlois

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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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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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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Mark Hayward
2020

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

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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)

youth mediations and affective relations

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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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)

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Robert Heynen
2016

Emily van der Meulen, Robert Heynen: Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance (2016)

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David Skinner
2016

Mike Gasher, David Skinner, Rowland Lorimer: Mass Communication in Canada (2016)

strategies for media reform

Jonathan Obar
2016

Des Freedman, Jonathan Obar, Cheryl Martens, and Robert W. McChesney: Strategies for Media Reform: International Perspectives (2016)

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Wade Rowland
2015

Wade Rowland: Canada Lives Here: The Case for Public Broadcasting (2015)

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Ganaele Langlois
2015

Greg Elmer, Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden:Compromised Data From Social Media to Big Data (2015)

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Natalie Coulter
2014

Natalie Coulter: Tweening the Girl: The Crystallization of the Tween Market (2014)