Completed MA Theses and Profiles
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Claudia Abate
Project: Pop Music as a Counter Culture? Hybrid Identities and the new Global Youth
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee Member / Second Reader: Murphy, Michael
Annamaria Aceto
Thesis: Italian Television in Toronto: Nostalgia, Community or Commodity?
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee Member / Second Reader (CMSR): Hogarth, David; Ruggles, Myles
Renee Alleyn
MRP: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and its Theoretical Application in Studies of the Canadian National Project
Supervisor: Reisenleitner, Markus
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Amina Ally
MRP: Justin Bieber is Freaking Sexy!”: An Exploration of Fangirl Desire and (Dis)Identification Using Schizoanalysis
Supervisor: Campbell, Miranda
Committee Member / Second Reader: Driver, Susan
Rawan Al-Wakeal
Project: Strengthening Canadian Identity Via New Design Interface: MyTIFF-Festivals and MyTIFF-Learning for the Toronto International Film Festival
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee Member / Second Reader: Hayward, Mark; Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
Brianna Ames
Thesis: Women Building Peace: Participatory Development Communication, Strategies and the Peacebuilding Commission in Burundi: A Case Study
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara; Dowler, Kevin
Melissa Anderson
MRP: Urban Sanctuary Assemblages: A Case Study on Canada's Sanctuary City Movement
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John
Michele Anderson
MRP: Sense of Place: Finding a Place for Toronto Chinese-Canadian Diaspora in the Creative City Discourse
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee Member / Second Reader: Frolic, Bernard
Antonia Antonopoulos
Project: "Participatory Video" By and For BRAC Peer Educators
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Evans, Barbara
She is happily employed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Headquarters in New York, working with the Division of Communication. After completing her MA in Communication & Culture she has worked with UNICEF in Senegal and the Maldives.
Julia Aoki
Project: Revitalizing the Park: Digging up Historical Narratives in Oppenheimer
Supervisor: Eichhorn, Kate
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Catherine Argiropoulos
MRP: The value of culture: Culture and Municipal Policy in the city of Toronto
Supervisor: Dowler, Kevin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Zemans, Joyce
Aurore Coco Avolonto
Thesis: The Choice of Acculturation Strategies: Intercultural Adaptation of International Students from Sub-Saharan African Francophone Countries in Ontario
Supervisory: Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie
Committee Member / Second Reader: Hayward, Mark; Garon, Francis
Olukayode Ayankojo
Thesis: Diasporic Community Cultural Identity and the Internet
Supervisory: Blum, Alan
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven; Prokopow, Michael
Loren Aytona
MRP: The Kids Are (Not) Alright: Framing Canadian Young Worker Subjectivities Through Policy & Media Discourse
Supervisory: Vosko, Leah
Committee Member / Second Reader: Thomas, Mark
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Daria Bagan
MRP: Having the Best of Both and None of Any: Television, Popular Media and Social Representations of The Working Woman
Supervisor: Burwell, Jennifer
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne
Joseph Bahn
MRP: Living With Culture: The "Creative City" and Toronto's Nuit Blanche
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Crichlow, Warren
Since graduating from the Communication & Culture program in 2009 he has been working as a museum and cultural resources planning consultant with the global consultancy Lord Cultural Resources. As a museum exhibition planner he's been lucky enough to work in far-flung places such as Egypt, India and Dubai.
Publications
FUSE Magazine: Art/Culture/Politics, “Any Celebration is Premature: A Snapshot from Cairo”, Fall 2011
C Magazine, The C Visual Arts Foundation, “Beyond the Hype: Nuit Blanche in the ‘Creative City’, 2009
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Public Culture Working Paper, “Nocturnal Reveries at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche”, 2009
Nicholas Balaisis
MRP: Ethical Interventions: Italian Neorealism and Everyday Life
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Jennifer Ball
Thesis: Constructing & Representing Identities of Criminalized Popularities
Supervisor: Cukier, Wendy
Committee: Feldman, Seth; Skinner, David
Brenda Bannis
Thesis: Can Koudnet Help Reclaim Community
Supervisor: Fisher, Caitlin
Committee: Hyman, Belerie; Fletcher, Fred
Natalia Barykina
MRP: Complicating Post-Soviet Urban Space: Theoretical Inquiry into Power, Architecture, Media and Social Space in contemporary Minsk
Supervisor: Ingram, Susan
Committee Member / Second Reader: Reisenleitner, Markus
Arianne Beauchamp
MRP: Seducing Quebec Audiences: Looking into Quebec Film's Box-Office Boom at the Turn of this Century
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Katherine Bell
Thesis: News Coverage of the Pope's death: A planned breaking news event.
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
CoCommittee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred; Allen, Gene
Degrees
Ph.D., Communication, University of Washington, 2012
MA, Communication & Culture, York/Ryerson Universities, 2006
Katherine M. Bell is an Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, East Bay. She worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, mainly with The Canadian Press news agency, where she was a reporter, editor and news manager. As a reporter she focused on environmental and industrial development issues as well as on the rural economy and First Nations. Her research explores celebrity as a form of cultural authority, as an aspect of identity construction in digital life, and as a production and reflection of social categories and consumer culture.
Selected Publications
Bell, K. M. (2013). Affective expertise: The journalistic ethics of celebrity sourcing. In S. J. A. Ward (Ed.), Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives (Vol. 214-234, pp. 214-234). Boston: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bell, K. M. (2013). Raising Africa? Celebrity and the Rhetoric of the White Saviour. PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 10(1)(1). http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/3185
Bell, K. M. (2011). "A delicious way to help save lives:" Race, commodification and celebrity in Product (RED). Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 4(3), 163-180.
Bell, K. M. (2011). Weinergate: Sexting, Lies and the Mediascape. Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen.
Bell, K. M. (2009). Turning dreams to shame: Susan Boyle's Les Miz. Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen. www.journalismethics.ca/feature_articles/susan_boyle.html
Sabrina Bellissimo
MRP: Marketing and Adversiting to Teenage Girls in the Social Media Age
Supervisor: Gammel, Irene
Committee Member / Second Reader: Campbell, Miranda
Andrea Benoit
MRP: Cleaning Up: Reality, Responsibility and Relativity in The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
Supervisor: Bruce, Jean
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Kris Bertram
MRP: Decolonizing the Digital: Radio Spectrum in an Age of Neocolonialism
Supervisor: Middleton, Catherine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slowey, Gabrielle
Michael Bickerton
MRP: Strategic Storytelling: Challenging Dominant Metaphors of HIV and AIDS through Serial Television Drama
Supervisor: Denisoff, Dennis
Committee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin
Andrew Bieler
Thesis: Rhythmanalysis of Critical Mass: A Meeting Place
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee: Dowler, Kevin; Kipfer, Stefan
Susan Bigelow
Thesis: Technologies of Perception: Miyazaki in Theory and Practice
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Goulding, Jay; Bailey, Steven
Nis Bojin
Thesis: What Do We Learn When We Change the Way We Play? Augmenting the Computer Gameplay Experience
Supervisor: Durlak, Jerry
Committee Member / Second Reader: Herman, Andrew
Maya Boritz
MRP: The Strategic Use of the Internet within Civil Society Organizations towards an Expanded Framework
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Alhassan, Amin
Allison Bottomley
MRP: Art in the Neighbourhood - Public Culture and the Urban Environment: A Case Study of the Wychwood Barns Site
Supervisor: Cohnstaedt, Joy
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Allison Bowsher
MRP: They're Gonna Put Me In The Movies: The Pop Music Soundtracks of the Conventional, the Unconventional and the Vampires
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne; Mooers, Colin
Frederique Bournot
Project: White Noise: Essay on Multiculturalism in the Canadian Racial and Cultural Imaginary
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Sheilagh Brasset
MRP: Baudrillard's Last Man: The Necessity of Self-Satire for a Critical Spirit
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee Member / Second Reader: Rowland, Wade
Jennifer Breckenridge
MRP: Evolution of Commodified Identity and its Resistance & Renegotiation
Supervisor: Rowland, Wade
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Natalie Brown
MRP: Remote Witness: Google Earth and the Visualization of Conflict in Crisis in Darfur
Supervisor: Viseu, Ana
Committee Member / Second Reader: Elmer, Greg; Rowland, Wade
Roberta Brown
Thesis: Representations of the Female Serial Killer in Film
Supervisor: Young, Suzie
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fisher, Caitlin; Cukier, Wendy
Christene Browne
Project: The Cinematic Dreams of Black Female Protagonists
Supervisor: Sanders, Leslie
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bociurkiw, Marusya; Kazimi, Ali
Ren Bucholz
Thesis: Laws of Air and Ether: Copyright, Technology Standards, and Competition
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee: Skinner, David; Elmer, Greg
Ren Bucholz is an associate at Lenczner Slaght.
Ren's diverse commercial litigation practice ranges from high tech and intellectual property disputes, to insurance and professional liability matters.
Prior to joining Lenczner Slaght, Ren clerked for the judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal. He has published academic and popular articles on intellectual property, file sharing and electronic voting. He also represented a non-governmental organization at the World Intellectual Property Organization – a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Geneva – and at various technology standards organizations around the globe.
While at law school, Ren was a senior editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and was named a Dean's Fellow in civil procedure, property law and criminal law. He was also awarded a Google Policy Fellowship, which enabled him to complete his MA thesis on competition law, technology standards and intellectual property.
Education
Osgoode Hall Law School (2010)
JD
York and Ryerson Universities, 2009 (2009)
MA (Communications & Culture)
University of Colorado at Boulder (2004)
BS (Honours Journalism)
Tara Burke
MRP: "Steal Away": The Commodification of the Black Gospel Choir
Supervisor: Bowman, Rob
Committee Member / Second Reader: Salter, Loira
Robert Burkett
Project: Legacy of Denial
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Greyson, John
Kathleen Burnside
MRP: New Media on the Canadian Federal Government Exploiting the Democratic Potential of New Media in the 'Third Age' of Political Communication
Supervisor: Baskoy, Tuna
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
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Jacquelyn Cain
MRP: Representations of Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Trifonova, Temenuga
Iain Cameron
Project: Ambiguous City Space
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Snyder, Don
Christopher Caruso
MRP: Value-for-Signal: The Future of Television Broadcast Regulation in Canada
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Maria Casasfranco
Project: Family Engagement in the Development of Tablet Applications for Facial Expression and Emotion Recognition for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Supervisor: Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Committee Member / Second Reader: Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie; Wong, Wendy
Hilary Chan
MRP: Ready-Made Experience: Consumer Culture
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Hadlaw, Jan
Michael Cheatley
MRP: When Old Space Was News: Transformations in American Urban Form and Commercial Newspapers, 1890-1920
Supervisor: Moore, Paul
Committee Member / Second Reader: Allen, Gene
May Chew
MRP: Proximal Bodies: A Museological Journey from Distantiation to Collection
Supervisor: Viseu, Ana
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Kiera Chion
Thesis: Super Girls in China: The Performance of NeoLiberal Values, Desire and Alternative Temporalities
Supervisor: Little, Ken
Committee: Lee-Loy, Anne Marie; Crow, Barbara
Hanna Cho
Thesis: Untethering Social Capital: A case study in Wireless Community Networking
Supervisor: Middleton, Catherine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Hanna Cho is currently Curator of Engagement & Dialogue at the Museum of Vancouver. She obtained her (h)BA in history and communications from the University of Ottawa, and holds an MA in Communication & Culture from York University (2004-2006).
Hanna is a social researcher with an academic background in the cultural studies of technology, cities, and policy analysis. She joined the MOV in 2010 from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where she was a research fellow and lead for APFC's first national youth engagement strategy from 2007-2010. In 2013, Hanna was the curatorial lead on the development and launch of “The Visible City: Vancouver’s Neon Stories” which is one of North America’s first mobile “street museum” apps featuring location-based augmented reality and interactive walking tours.
Hanna is also co-founder of the community wireless networking group, Wireless Toronto, Vancouver-based new media/culture speaker and salon series “Fresh Media”, contributing researcher to the non-profit policy and research collective, Media Action Média, sits on the Board of Directors for the British Columbia Museums Association, and in 2006 was visiting research fellow and Korean Government Scholar resident at the Hallym University’s Institute for Communication Arts & Technology (ICAT). An excerpt of Cho’s MA thesis, “Towards Place-Peer Community and Civic Bandwidth: A Case Study In Community Wireless Networking” can be read in the special Issue (Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest) issue of The Journal of Community Informatics [Vol 4, No 1; 2008].
Alan Chumley
MRP: Milestones & Metrics: Toward The Economic Value of Public Relations
Supervisor: Gillies, Donald
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Ryan Clement
Project: Comic Worlds: American Comics, Japanese Manga and the Question of Globalization
Supervisor: Fisher, Caitlin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Wong, Wendy
Kristine Collins
MRP: Locating the "Critical" in Media Education in Ontario
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, James
Rachel Crowe
MRP: Intercultural Communication and the Internet: Exploring the Dissonance Between Canadian Online Communications Strategies and the Use Practices of Chinese International Students in Canada
Supervisor: Middleton, Catherine
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne
Julia Cucci
MRP: Reinventing Music: The Evolution of the Independent Artist in the Digital Era
Supervisor: Gauntlett, David
Committee Member / Second Reader: Robinson, Danielle
Emma Culpeper
MRP: How to Succeed in Acting (After Much Trying…): Flexibility, Vulnerability and Social Capital for the Actor in a Liquid Modern Age
Supervisor: Moore, Paul
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Ed
Jesse Cumming
MRP: Buffered: Livestreaming and the Social Implications of New Technology
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Reisenleitner, Markus
Jessica Cwynar-Horta
Thesis: Documenting Femininity: Body-Positivity and Female Empowerment on Instagram
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Coulter, Natalie; Langlois, Ganaele
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Stephanie D'Lima
MRP: Sharing Food With Strangers: The Potential Role Of Peer To Peer Food-Sharing Platforms In The Promotion Of Toronto's Alternative Food System
Supervisor: Koç, Mustafa
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred
Candice D'Souza
Thesis: Popularizing Pedagogy: An Exploration of Popular Culture as Critical
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee: Khayatt, Didi; Mooers, Colin
Yolande Daley
MRP: Visual Persuasion: Paparazzi and the Power of Photographic Reflections
Supervisor: Little, Ken
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald
Lauren Daniel
MRP: Canada's Dark Secret: The Re-Emergence of Blackface Within Canada's Multicultural Nirvana
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Dua, Ena
Heather Davis
Thesis: Imag(in)ing Colonial Landscapes: Nationalism and Amnesia Early Canadian Photography
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique
Committee Member / Second Reader: Seaton, Beth
Eleni Deacon
MRP: Evolving Mythologies of the Media: Digital Journalism in Contemporary Film
Supervisor: Forsyth, Scott
Committee Member / Second Reader: Allen, Gene
Scott Deeming
Thesis: Abandonware, Commercial Expatriation and Post-Commodity Fan Practice: A Study of the Sega Dreamcast
Supervisor: Lessard, Bruno
Committee Members: Brayton, Jennifer; Bailey, Steve
Michael DeJong
MRP: Objectivity and the Kyoto Protocol: A Case Study of Newspaper Framing
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Allen, Gene
Vanessa Del Carpio
Thesis: Layers of In-Between: On Women and Fashion
Supervisor: Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Committee Members: Matthews, David; MacLennan, Anne
Monika Delmos
Project: Museums of Cultural Waste: The Garage Sale as a Locus of the circulation of Cultural artifacts
Supervisor: Feldman, Seth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Innes, Christopher
Lisa Dobbin
MRP: The Pirate Party Movement: Charting a Course Toward Copyright Reform in the Digital Era
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Pedersen, Isabelle
Anne Doelman
Project: Looking Back to What Exactly? Understanding the Implications of Working with 15mm Home Movies in a Digital Non-Linear Editing Environment
Supervisor: Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Wickens, Renate
Greg Dube
Thesis: The Street is Disgusting and Beautiful: The Meanings, Materials and Politics of Automobility
Supervisor: Slopek, Ed
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Alexandra Duncan
MRP: From the Street to the Gallery: A Critical Analysis of the Inseparable Nature of Graffiti and Context
Supervisor: Hornstein, Shelley
Committee Member / Second Reader: Eichhorn, Kate
Stephanie Dunlop
MRP: After Merger Mania: The Effects of Canadian Media Concentration
Supervisor: Skinner, David
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Holly Dupej
Thesis: The Lyric Online: Re-envisioning a Genre for Digital Poetry
Supervisor: Eichhorn, Kate
Committee Member / Second Reader: Uppal, Priscila; Cain, Stephen
Susan Dupej
Thesis: Self-Representing Culture: Aboriginal Identities and Place Branding in a Canadian Tourism Context
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Ed; Holmes, Teresa
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Elizabeth Edwards
Thesis: Brotherly Love: Remaking Homosexuality and Masculinity in Fan Fiction
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Members: Bailey, Steven; Rubenstein, Anne
Kelly Egan
Project: The Site of Sound: An Exploration of the E/Affects of Intermedia Texts Through Animated Sound Film
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique/Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin
Gary Ellis
MRP: Toying with Us? Analysis of Gender and Race in Children's Television Advertisements
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald
Tesni Ellis
Project: Media-Making at Youville Centre: Voicing Young Mother's Agency Through Digital Storytelling in the Alternative Classroom
Supervisor: Longfellow, Brenda
Committee Members: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella; Schifellite, Carmen
Kirsten Ellison
Thesis: The Myth of Agelessness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Agelessness in North American Anti-Aging Skin Care Advertisements
Supervisor: Pedersen, Isabel
Committee: MacLennan, Anne; Cody, Susan
Erin Elofson
MRP: Evolving Media Richness Theory to Support the Communication Technologies of Today's Tomorrow
Supervisor: Middleton, Catherine
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Lucy Eskedjian
MRP: Naturalizing Nature: The Use of Idyllic Tropes of Nature as Response to Risk on Environmental Advertising
Supervisor: Bruce, Jean
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Cukier, Wendy
Fernando Espinosa De Los Reyes
MRP: Cultural Corportism in Mexico: Approaching the Question of Intellectual Incorporation
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Skinner, David
Gabrielle Etcheverry
Thesis: Ediciones Cordillera: A Study of Chilean Literary Production in Canada
Supervisor: Panofsky, Ruth
Committee Member / Second Reader:
Jacqueline Ewald
MRP: "Water Should be for Life, Not for Profit": National Mythologies and Environmental Policy in the Case of Nestle Water-Bottling in Ontario
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Skinner, David
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Karen Fernandes
Thesis: Democracy, Power and Decision Making: A Study of Ontario Municipal Board Decisions for Downtown Toronto 2000-2008
Supervisor: Salter, Liora
Committee: Walsh, Philip; Bailey, Steven
John Fernandez
MRP: Exploring Interactivity: Expanding the Performance Right for Sound Recordings in American Copyright Law.
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Ojo, Tokunbo
After graduating in 2014 with a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Communication & Culture, John was employed at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) working as a policy analyst in the Radio Policy and Applications division.
Edileia Figueiredo
MRP: Motivating Political Participation Online: A case study of E-Participatory Budgeting from Brazil
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
Charles Finley
MRP: The Palimpsest of Discourse: A Framework for Comparitive Urban Theory and Practise
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Rebecca Fisseha
Project: Translation as Experience: Haddis Alemayehu's Fikir Iske Megabir
Supervisor: Panofsky, Ruth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Adem, Teferi (Ctre for Race & Ethnic Rels); Mukherjee, Arun
Ian Fitzgerald
MRP: "A simple story for simple people.": Current Trends in the Hollywood Romantic Comedy as a Film Genre
Supervisor: Fogarty, Mary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Moore, Paul
Laura Flanagan
Project: Mothering on Instagram
Supervisor: Friedman, May
Committee Member / Second Reader: O'Reilly, Andrea; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Susan Flavelle
MRP: Leave it to the Men: Representations of Gendered Power and Authority in Television Advertising
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Moore, Paul
Gregory Flemming
Thesis: Television and Psychoanalysis: A Laconian Model of Television and its application.
Supervisor: Dowler, Kevin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Herman, Andrew
Matthew Flisfeder
Thesis: Globalization, Postmodernism and Public Space: A Visual Study of Yonge - Dundas Square
Supervisor: Berland, Jody
Committee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin; Shields, John
Matthew is currently a Sessional Instructor at OCAD, Ryerson, Laurier, and Trent.
Degrees
Ph.D. Communication & Culture (Ryerson/York 2010); M.A. Communication & Culture (Ryerson/York 2005); B.A. Hon. Double Major, Fine Arts Cultural Studies and Communication Studies (York 2003)
Scholarships/Awards
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Books
Author. The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Co-Editor. Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming 2014).
Book Chapters
Co-Author, "Introduction." Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader
Author. "Enjoying Social Media." In Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader.
Author. "Communism." In The Zizek Dictionary, Edited by Rex Butler (Acumen, Forthcoming 2013).
Articles
“Est-il possible de représenter la rapport sexuelle dans le cinema?” CiNéMAS. Special issue on Lacan and cinema. Expected Fall 2015.
“Communism and the End of the World.” PUBLIC 48. Expected Fall 2013.
“Dialectical Materialism and the Feminine Sublime.” Subjectivity 5(4): 376-395, 2012.
“Between the Symbolic and the Sublime; or, Slavoj in Film Studies and Out.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 20(2): 75-94, 2011.
“What’s So Funny About Class Struggle: Ideology in The Trotsky.” cineACTION 82/83: 64-67, 2010.
“Class Struggle and Displacement: Slavoj and Film Theory.” Cultural Politics 5(3): 299-324, 2009.
“Reading Emancipation Backwards: Laclau, and the Critique of Ideology in Emancipatory Politics.” International Journal Studies 2(1).
Review Essays
“Subject of Desire/Subject of Drive: The Emergence of Media Studies.” Reviews in Cultural Theory 3(1): 25-37, 2012.
“Conditions of Possibility: Jameson, and the Persistence of the Dialectic.” Socialist Studies: The Journal for the Society of Socialist Studies 6(1): 162-168, 2010.
Reviews
Review of Gail Day’s Dialectical Passions. PUBLIC 47, Forthcoming 2013.
Other Activities
On-stage interview with Slavoj Zizek, TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre, October 1st, 2012.
Victoria Floyd
MRP: Play me a Story: Personal Narrative Development in the SIMS 2
Supervisor: Jensen, Jennifer
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Keith Flynn
MRP: Lucian Influence on Abstract Expressionism
Supervisor: Hornstein, Shelley
Committee Member / Second Reader: Zemel, Carol
Rebecca Foley
Thesis: "Crazy B****": Discriminatory Language, Radio Censorship, Regulation, and Enforcement Policies in Canada
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven; Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie
Laura Fox
Project: Thinking In Networks: The Interactive Documentary as a Tool for Social Change
Supervisor: Langlois, Ganaele
Committee Member / Second Reader: Longfellow, Brenda; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Naomi Fraser
MRP: Expressions of Resistance: An Investigation into Aesthetics, Social Movements and Change
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John
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Alla Gadassik
Project: Hybrid Art in Motion: Live-Action and Animation
Supervisor: Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Feldman, Seth
Adrianne Gaffney
MRP: Consumption and Belonging in the Era of Neo-Tribalism
Supervisor: Gillies, Donald
Committee Member / Second Reader: Siegel, Arthur
Teisha Gaylard
MRP: Canadian Digital Television: The CRTC's Licensing Framework and Canada's Broadcasting Policy Objectives
Supervisor: Siegel, Arthur
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald
Amanda Graham
Thesis: Lost and Unfounded: Revealing Disappearances in the Art of Oscar Munoz
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Olga Grass
MRP: Interactive Branding and Consumer Identity: Me.com
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Ripley, Louise
Matthew Greaves
Thesis: The Fetishism Of The Ipad
Supervisor: Ruggles, Myles
Committee: Slopek, Ed; Bailey, Steven
Hyacinth Greville
MRP: Genealogy of the Royal Ontario Museum
Supervisor: Gillies, Donald
Committee: Fletcher, Fred
Marc Griebel
MRP: On "Inextricable Links" and "Innovative Bridges": Tracing the Multiscalar Conjunctures and Generative Possibilities of Repatriating Crop Genetic Resources as Indigenous Biocultural Heritage
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member/ Second Reader: McAllister, Carlotta
Susan Grossman
MRP: The Role of media in sustaining capitalist hegemony: A critical review
Supervisor: Mooers, Collin; Mazepa, Patricia
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
David Groundwater
MRP: The New Cryptographers
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Baskoy, Tuna
Richard Grunberg
Project: Communicating the Concept
Supervisor: Durlak, Jerome
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred
In the production industry for the past thirty years, Richard has studied Engineering. He has a BA in Radio and Television Arts, MA in Communication Culture, and has worked professionally in still photography (two years as former Prime Minister Trudeau’s Liberal Party photographer), and as a Director of Photography and Technical Producer in the television industry. Rick was Vice President and founding member of one of Canada’s most successful television facility and production companies of its time. He was later hired as a Technical Director and D.O.P. (Director of Photography) at TVOntario, working on such shows as Polka Dot Door and Polka Dot Shorts, Join In, and shows in the freelance market, such as Shining Time Station, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight…and many more. Rick has given numerous lectures on advanced camera and lighting techniques throughout North America, and was instrumental in the funding, design and construction of Canada’s first University based High Definition television training facility. He was also involved in some of the first High Definition tests and shoots almost 25 years ago. Rick has been a full time faculty member in the Radio and Television Arts department at Ryerson for 15 years, while always maintaining a busy freelance shooting schedule. Rick’s research interests are now directed in the areas of HD bidirectional broadcast over IP , winning the prestigious ORION award, and travelling the world building the Global Campus collaborative student network. Rick has also been featured on a number of CBC shows with his studies in 3D Production and it’s Physiological parameters, with a key role in the design and implementation and Director of Ryerson’s Digital Cinema and Advanced Visualization Lab.
Richard Grunberg BAA, MA
Director, Ryerson Digital Cinema and Advanced Visualization Lab & Global Campus Network
Associate Professor
RTA School of Media, Ryerson University
Facilities Advisor and Coordinator
Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture
York University / Ryerson University
Jade Guthrie
MRP: Thorncliffe Community Market: Developing a 'Sense of Place' for Female Newcomers in Marginalized Neighbourhoods
Supervisor: Koç, Mustafa
Committee Member / Second Reader: Riesenleitner, Markus
Stephanie Guthrie
Thesis: Narratives of Quality and Conflict: Media Studies in the Ontario Secondary Curriculum
Supervisor: Gillies, Donald
Committee: Mazepa, Pat; Trott, Elizabeth
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Zena Haberman
MRP: Meaningful Fiction: An Approach For Appreciating The Book in a Visual Culture
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique
Committee Member / Second Reader: Feldman, Seth
Haidi Hall
Thesis: Print Media Charaterizations of Low Income Communities in Toronto: The Branding of Jane and Finch
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee Member / Second Reader: Alhassan, Amin
Abu Faiz Haque
Project: Invisibility of Visible Minorities: A Community Perspective
Supervisor: McCullough, John
Committee Member / Second Reader: Morbey, Mary Leigh; Tschofen, Monique
Brooke Harrison
MRP: Jerry Lewis and Victorian Liminality
Supervisor: Pomerance, Murray
Committee Member / Second Reader: Keil, Charles
Sarah Harrison
MRP: Having the Straight Edge: The Politics of the Straight Edge Subculture
Supervisor: Gillies, Donald
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
James Harrison
Thesis: An Archaeology of Terror(ism) in Hollywood Film
Supervisor: Pomerance, Murray
Committee Member / Second Reader: Forsyth, Scott
Ziaul Hasan
MRP: Objectivity and Partiality in Primetime News Coverage of National Elections in 2018 and 2019 by Public Channels in Canada and Bangladesh
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Heynen, Robert
Alex Hayter
MRP: Be the Bad Guy: Roleplaying Human Rights Abusers in Newsgames
Supervisor: Jenson, Jennifer
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Talson Henderson
MRP: The Uncanny in Modernity and the Techne of Anipaint
Supervisor: Bell, Shannon
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Ed
Dylan Hennessey
MRP: The Future of Security: The Impact of the Anti-terrorism Act on Canadian Media
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Abigail Henry
Thesis: Digitality and its (Dis)Contents: Rediscovering Caribbean Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Members: MacLennan, Anne; Ford-Smith, Honor
Jeffrey Heydon
MRP: Fetishizing Fictions: An Investigation into the Use of "race" in Television Sports Advertising
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald
David Hibbs
Thesis: Individualised Environmentalism(s): The Deadly Sins of Environmental Organizations
Supervisor: Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie
Committee Members: MacLennan, Anne; Dowler, Kevin
Mary Higgins
MRP: Transitions in Political Communication: Opening and Closing Publics
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee Member / Second Reader: Drache, Daniel
Samantha Hodder
MRP: Documentaries and Broadcasting in the Canadian Context
Supervisor: Feldman, Seth
Committee Member/ Second Reader: McCullough, John
Jaigris Hodson
Thesis: A Tangled Web: Public Reason, Web 2.0 and a New Definition of Action for Participatory Technologies
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee: Crichlow, Warren; Crow, Barbara
Eben Holmes
MRP: Gameplay, Simulation, and the Aesthetics of Contingency
Supervisor: Pomerance, Murray
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Lessard, Bruno
Jeannine Holwill
Thesis: The Cult(ure) of Charity and the Myths of Free The Children
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee: Viseu, Ana; Naghibi, Nima
Guy Hoskins
MRP: The Efficacy Aggregator; Avaaz.org as Transnational Public Space
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Baskoy, Tuna
Megan Humphrey
Thesis: Framed: Mainstream Media Coverage of Anti-Globalization Protesters in Seattle and Miami
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David; Shields, John
Mike Hunter
MRP: Something in the Water: Hegemonic Roots of Cape Breton Culture[s]
Supervisor: Seaton, Beth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Ed
Mike R. Hunter (2002) First graduate of the program.
Editor-in-Chief, Cape Breton University Press, Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Sadia Husain
MRP: Mediating Public and Private Interests: A Casy Study of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Supervisor: Cohnstaedt, Joy
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
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Aaisha Islam
MRP: The Lost Generation of Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC): Stories of Loss, Longing, and Belonging
Supervisor: Pelkey, Jamin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Ingram, Susan; Winland, Daphne
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Andrew Jacob
MRP: Legal McLuhanism in Practice: Decontextualization in Barrick Gold Corp v. Lopehandia
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
Preethi Jagadeesh
Project: Of All Places: The Making of an Essay Film for the Interrogation of ‘Home’ Through Diasporic Experience
Supervisor: Ng-Chan, Taien
Committee Member / Second Reader: Naghibi, Nima; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Jay Jameson
MRP: The Ideal of Telepresence in Mediated Communication: The divergent frames of video-calling interaction and face-to-face communication
Supervisor: Hadlaw, Jan
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne
Jovana Jankovic
MRP: The Media Politics of Privacy and Memory: A Study of Surveillance Video in Contemporary Narrative Cinema.
Supervisor: Trifonova, Temenuga
Committee Member: Lessard, Bruno
During her MA studies, Jovana spent a semester abroad as Associate Junior Fellow at the International College for Research in Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy in Weimar, Germany. Since graduating, she has worked in a variety of digital marketing and communications roles within the art and culture and higher-education sectors. After a stint as Web Writer for the National Film Board, Jovana now manages the communications initiatives of the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy. She maintains a freelance career as a writer and editor in the film and contemporary art industries. Her writing has appeared in C Magazine, Exclaim!, the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, and more.
Robyn Joffe
Thesis: This Far, But No Further: Questioning the "Bromance" Trope in Contemporary Film and Television
Supervisor: McCullough, John
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Hayward, Mark; Burwell, Jennifer
Paula John
MRP: Gendering the Nation: Joyce Wieland's Representation of Canada as Feminine versus the Masculine State
Supervisor: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Levin, Laura
Jose Johnson-Cami
Project: I, Author? A Filmmakers Critical Exploration of His Authorship
Supervisor: Schifellite, Carmen
Committee Members: Longfellow, Brenda; Muzzattii, Stephen
Julie Johnston
MRP: Understanding Challenges to Social Inclusion in Mixed-Income Housing Communities: A Case Study of Knowledge Mobilization and Knowledge Transfer (KM/KT) in Regent Park
Supervisor: Shields, John
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Baskoy, Tuna
Christopher Jones
MRP: The Nature of Hate Propaganda on the Internet in Canada
Supervisor: Cohnstaedt, Joy
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred
Dayna Jones
MRP: Bird-Women: A Brief History
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
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Genevieve Kang
MRP: The Importance of Nutritional Literacy and the Significance of Product Packaging in Food Choices
Supervisor: Schifellite, Carmen
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Koç, Mustafa
Michael Keshen
MRP: Making Kinections: Understanding and Exploring the Kinect for Xbox 360
Supervisor: Jenson, Jennifer
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Lessard, Bruno
Sharmeen Khan
Thesis: Amplifying Action Oriented Media Pedagogy: Identity, Access and Social Change in Community Radio
Supervisor: Skinner, David
Committee: Mazepa, Patricia
Grant Kien
Thesis: The Digital Story: Analyzing Binary Code as a Cultural Text
Supervisor: O'Neill, John
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara, Burwell, Jennifer
Grant Kien is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at the California State University East Bay. After receiving his MA in Communication & Culture, Grant completed his PhD in Communication and Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Selected Publications
Kien, Grant. (Prospectus in development). All Your Base Are Belong To Meme: Memography of Post-Global Digital Life. (full length book)
Kien, Grant. (in press). “Evolution, Apple, iPad, and Education: A Memeography of a Monster Too Big to Fail”. Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies. (Scholarly journal article)
Kien, Grant. (in press). “The Nature of Epiphany”. International Review of Qualitative Inquiry. (Scholarly journal article)
Kien, Grant. (2011). “BDSM and Transgression 2.0: The Case of Kink.com”. Transgression 2.0. Ted Gournelos and David Gunkel (eds). New York: Continuum Press.
Kien, Grant. (2010). “Privacy As Work: The Appropriation of Labor in Post-Global Network”. Post-Global Network and Everyday Life. Marina Levina and Grant Kien (eds). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Bradley King
MRP: Postmodernity with Chinese Characteristics: Representing Transnational Urban Space in Beijing
Supervisor: Dowler, Kevin; Tschofen, Monique (2nd Sup.)
Committee Member / Second Reader:
Mary Kitchen
Project: Actor Engagement: The Theory and Practice of Monologues
Supervisor: Innes, Christopher
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fothergill, Robert
Ya-Yin Ko
Thesis: Interrogating the One Laptop per Child Project
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee: Crichlow, Warren; Viseu, Ana
Jiaxin Koh
Project: What's Eating Signapore?
Supervisor: Longfellow, Brenda
Committee Member / Second Reader: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
Caroline Kolombos
MRP: Convergence and Corporate Public Image
Supervisor: Burwell, Jennifer
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Anabel Khoo
Thesis: The Emergent Political in Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour (2-QTPOC) Media
Supervisor: Driver, Susan
Committee Members: Little, Ken; Noble, Bobby
Tesfaye Kumsa
MRP: Media, Human Rights and Development in Ethiopia
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin
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Martha Ladley
Project: [Tentative] Research and Design Methods for Mobile Platforms: a Walk in the Park
Supervisor: Slopek, Ed
Committee Member / Second Reader: Durlak, Jerome
Benjamin Landau
Thesis: Transcending Cultural Barriers: An Exploration of Third Culture Theory through the Case Study of Sharhythm Magazine
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Ganaele Langlois
Thesis: Online Journalism and the Public Sphere: A Discourse Analsis of three Newspaper Web Sites
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Smith, Joyce; Allen, Gene
Anne LeMesurier
MRP: The Growing Culture of Youth Unemployment
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John
Yee-Man Janice Leung
Thesis: From crowdsurfing to crowdsourcing: Production, consumption, and the shifting music fan experience in a mobile, networked era.
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven; Elmer, Greg
Yingning Lin
MRP: The Rise of Consumer Society in China
Supervisor: Seaton, Beth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald
Ariella Linovski
Thesis: Media's Representation of National Identity During Armed Conflicts
Supervisor: Weiser, Keith
Committee Member/Second Reader (CMSR): Ruggles, Myles
Ariella Linovski currently runs her own communications consulting business, Ariella Communications. Ariella has done strategic communications planning, media relations, social media campaigns and writing for various federal government departments. These departments include Health Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Canadian Transportation Agency. She has worked on issues ranging from controlling the spread of animal diseases to improving transportation for people with disabilities.
Selected Academic Publications and Conference Presentations
The Scandalously Impure: Hope for Transcending Cultural Norms, presented September 2007, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire.
Nationalism in Ethnically Divided Societies: The State of Israel’s National Identity during the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006, presented September 2007, School of Politics, International Studies & Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Linovski, Ariella. (2008) “The Scandalously Impure: Hope for Transcending Cultural Norms.” In Hope Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Whitney Bauman. (Ed.) Inter-Disciplinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-904710-54-7.
Honours and Awards Received
Graduate Students' Association Conference Support Fund, York University, 2007
Graduate Development Fund, York University, September 2007
Tuition Bursary, York University, May 2007
Tuition Bursary, York University, September 2006
Graduate Research Assistantship, York University, March 2006
Erika Loic
Project: Memory, Geometry, and the Films of Robert Breer
Supervisor: Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Feldman, Seth
Joana Londono
MRP: Lovers and Bananas: Hollywood and the Exotization of Latin American 'Magic'
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique
Committee Member / Second Reader: Forsyth, Scott
Paul Longhurst
MRP: Addressing the New Enclosure: Land Grabs and the Food Crisis in a Globalized World
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee Member / Second Reader: Kitzmann, Andreas
Melanie Love
MRP: Communicative Action and Corporatisation: Human Needs and Health Care Systems
Supervisor: Rowland, Wade
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Janet Loveday
MRP: Creativity Needs Space
Supervisor: Innes, Christopher
Committee Member / Second Reader: Zemans, Joyce
Andrea Luc
MRP: Hit "XX" to Reproduce Gender Binaries: An Exploration of Access, Skill, and Gaming Identities Among Pre-Adolescents
Supervisor: Jensen, Jennifer
Committee Member / Second Reader: Boyd, Jason
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Kailing Ma
MRP: Transformation: Aspects of the Contemporary Mediascape in China
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald
Le-Le Mac
MRP: Chinese Canadian Identity and Film
Supervisor: Nijhawan, Shobna
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Isabel Macdonald
Thesis: The Haiti Coup 2004: The Propaganda Model & Canadian Press Sources
Supervisor: Skinner, David
Committee: Mooers, Colin; MacDermid, Robert
Jacinda Mack
Project: Remembering Ista: Nuxalk Perspectives on Sovereignty and Social Change
Supervisor: Dion, Susan (Educ)
Committee Member / Second Reader: Seaton, Beth; Barndt, Deb
Erin MacKeen
MRP: The Myth of Technological Salvation: Posthuman Promises for the Future and the Invisible Present of Techno-Evolution
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Jessica-Ursula Malkin
MRP: The Womb-Not-Womb
Supervisor: O'Neill, John
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Ed
Mamta Manhas
MRP: Creating Third Spaces: A podcast project analyzing transformative resistance and identity formation among South Asian artists in the Greater Toronto Area.
Supervisor: Driver, Susan
Committee Member / Second Reader: Pelkey; Hirji
Rosemary Marchant
MRP: The Artist Trading Card Movement: An Expression of the Curatorial Me
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee Member / Second Reader: Singer, Yvonne
Valerie Marchant
MRP: Reflection on the Memorialization of the Canadians who died serving in World War One
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Rowland, Wade
Monika Marescaux
MRP: Web of Spies: Database Marketing, Informational Security and the Internet
Supervisor: McNally, David
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Nicole Markowich
MRP: Shifting Standards and Practice at the CRTC: Planned, Inadvertent or Accidental. The Implications for a Changing Regulatory Environment on Canadian Broadcasting
Supervisor: Gilles, Donald
Committee Member / Second Reader: Siegel, Arthur
Hana Marku
Thesis: The Implications of the Internet on Civic Identity in Kosovo
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee: Allen, Gene; Feldman, Seth
Daniel Marrone
Thesis: Between Panels: Nostalgia in the Work of Daniel Clowes
Supervisor: Panofsky, Ruth
Committee: Mooers, Colin; Ingram, Susan
Sascha Marschang
MRP: Neue Heimat or Temporary Dwelling Place? Hybridity on Migrant Websites in Germany
Supervisor: Slopek, Edward
Committee Member / Second Reader: Alhassan, Amin
Nino Marshania
MRP: Georgian Diaspora Online
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee Member / Second Reader: Rowland, Wade
Sara Martel
Thesis: Transformative Politics in Consumer-Capitalism: Critically Constructing the Political Subject
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Seaton, Beth; Fletcher, Fred
Bassel Martin
Project: Ashley at UrbanArts: Popular Theatre and Personal Growth Among Youth in Toronto
Supervisor: Rudakoff, Judith
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Edward; Crow, Barbara
Jennifer Martin
Thesis: Avatar Interaction: Online Identity and the Effects of Visual Technologies
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven; Jensen, Jennifer
Frederick Matern
MRP: The Discourse of Civilization in the Works of Russia's New Eurasianists: Gumilev. Panarin, Dugin
Supervisor: Plekhanov, Sergei
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bell, David
Jeremy Mathers
MRP: Hidden Power: Atomic Energy Documentaries at the National Film Board of Canada
Supervisor: Feldman, Seth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Moore, Paul
Melanie McBride
MRP: Massively Multiplayer Marginalizations: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Claims of Advanced in the Works of Gee, Steinkuehler and Squire
Supervisor: Nolan, Jason
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Jenson, Jennifer
Robin McCullough
Thesis: Notes from the Field: Translation, Inscription, and the Materiality of Communication in Silvicultural Practice
Supervisor: Berland, Jody
Committee Members: Fitzpatrick, Blake; Viseu, Ana
Brenda McDermott
Thesis: The Exhibition and Reception of Newsreels and Topical Films in Toronto During World War I
Supervisor: Allen, Gene
Committee Member / Second Reader: Morris, Peter
Lucinda McDonald
Thesis: The Meaning of "E-": Language, Technology and Society
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Embleton, Sheila; Bailey, Steven
Caitlin McKinney
Thesis: Making Out on the Internet: Interpreting Popular Photographs on Afterellen.com
Supervisor: Driver, Susan
Committee: MacLennan, Anne; Parsons, Sarah
Cameron McMaster
MRP: The Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Canada using Intellectual Property Rights
Supervisor: Salter, Liora
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Craig, Carys
Jessica Mende
Thesis: From the Tongues of Good Intention: A Critical Look into the Articulated Experiences of Work and Study Abroad in Southern Environment
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Haig-Brown, Celia
Maria Menegakis
Project: Representation, Race & Riches; Profit Driver use of Ethnic Stereotypes in the Media
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Members: Shtern, Jeremy; Gakas, Athanasios
Lanjuan Meng
MRP: The Phantom Public Sphere and its Problems: An Inquiry into Neoconservative Ideology and the Political Value of the Aesthetic Dimension
Supervisor: Slopek, Edward
Committee Member / Second Reader: Tschofen, Monique
Tamara Miller
Thesis: Digital Activism: Free The Children and Youth Online
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Members: Alhassan, Amin; Murphy, Michael
Theadora Mills
MRP: Postmodernity with Chinese Characteristics: Representing Transnational Urban Space in Beijing
Supervisor: Schifellite, Carmen
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Neverson, Nicole
Lesley Model
MRP: Indian Myths and Legal Realities: The New Age Appropriation of Indigenous Imagery
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred
Sara Mohr
MRP: Making the Trail: Politics of Identity, Place and Nature in British Columbia
Supervisor: Coombe, Rosemary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Viseu, Ana
Aidan Moir
Thesis: Transient Vogue: The Commodification and Spectacle of the Vagrant Other
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Members: Bailey, Steve; Muzzatti, Stephen
Marcos Moldes
Thesis: Unfabulous? Alternative Media and the Politics of Representation
Supervisor: Bruce, Jean
Committee: MacLennan, Anne; Skinner, David
Marcos Daniel Moldes is currently a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is completing his dissertation tentatively entitled "Hijos del Norte, Padres del Sur | Children of the North, Parents of the South: Second-Generation Canadians and Belonging"
Jon Montes
After graduating with a Master of Arts (M.A.), Communication & Culture at York University, he got a job with TIFF in Toronto and just recently relocated to St. John’s where he's on contract with the National Film Board as Associate Producer.
Grants
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC)
Graduate Development Fund Travel Grant (York U)
Canadian Research Media Consortium Small Research Grant (Canadian Media Research Consortium & the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies)
Conference presentations
Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference (Kitchener-Waterloo ON, May 30 – June 1, 2012)
“Biutiful Feelings: Transnational Cinema and Affected Publics”
Art & Struggle Graduate Student Conference, OCAD University (Toronto ON, May 8-9, 2012)
“Critiquing Machete: Film, Transnationalization, and Border Struggles”
29th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference, Memorial University (St. John’s NL, June 20-22, 2012)
“Negotiating Change: The National Film Board and Fogo Island”
Andrew Alexander Monti
Thesis: Comparative Electoral Hortatory Language 1993-1994: Jean Chretien and Silvio Berlusconi
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee: MacLennan, Anne; Mooers, Colin
Samantha Moonsammy
Thesis: Surfing Under Palm Trees: The Internet and Everyday life in Barbados
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee: Alhassan, Amin; Middleton, Catherine
Sheila Moore
MRP: The Transformation of News: From Public Good to Cash Cow?
Supervisor: Skinner, David
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Rowland, Wade
Ana Rita Morais
Thesis: New Technologies and the Transition to personal Public Speres: Exploring the Circuit of the Mobile Device use Model
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee: Viseu, Ana; Pedersen, Isabel
Lisa Morgan
MRP: Identities in Motion
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara; Shields, John (2nd Sup.)
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred
Rhianna Morris
MRP: The Constructed Real: How Fashion and Advertising Shape Personal Identity
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Tschofen, Monique
Abidah Murji
MRP: Western Media Image vs. Lived Cultural Reality: A Portrait of the Modern Iranian Citizen
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John
N
Zahra Nader
MRP: Can Facebook help Afghan women to gain political inclusion?
Supervisor: Shannon Bell
Samita Nandy
Thesis: Theorizing Kineticism in Cyberbodies: Embodiment and Sexuality in Cyberspace
Supervisor: O'Neill, John
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Eva Nesselroth
Thesis: Sublimating the Message: Substance and Meaning in New Media Communication
Supervisor: O'Neill, John
Committee Member / Second Reader: Herman, Andrew
Hiromi Noguchi
Thesis: Transnational Divorce: The Experiences of Immigrant Japanese Mothers
Supervisor: Oikawa, Mona
Committee Members: Anderson, Karen; Moore, Paul
Lisa Norton
MRP: Educational and Promotional Elements of Branded Prescription Drug Websites Directed to Canadians
Supervisor: Lexchin, Joel
Committee Member / Second Reader: Rowland, Wade
O
Clare O'Connor
Thesis: Pedagogies of Space: The Contestation of Vari Hall
Supervisor: Berland, Jody
Committee: Rebick, Judy
Katie-Lynn O'Connor
MRP: The Serial Killer as Celebrity Deviant, Cultural Commodity and Other Macabre Representations of Jeffrey Dahmer
Supervisor: Muzzatti, Stephen
Committee Member/Second Reader: McCullough, John
Caitlin O'Donovan
MRP: From Clicks to Cash: Audience Participation and the Recapitalization of Broadcast Using Cross-Platform Entertainment
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member/Second Reader: Davis, Charles
Heather Olsen-Seabourne
Project: National Property: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Reproduction, Industrialization and Canadian Landscape Painting
Supervisor: Eichorn, Kate
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Magdalena Olszanowski
Project: Microfeminine Warfare: Exploring Women's Space in Electronic Music
Supervisor: Nolan, Jason
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fisher, Caitlin
Currently: SSHRC & FQRSC funded PhD student, Communication Studies, Concordia University
Publications
“What to ask women composers: feminist fieldwork in electronic dance music.” Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 4(1) 2012: 3-26.
“Montreal, Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams.” open-wi. 1(2). 19 June 2012.
“Bouge Bouge Bouge.” open-wi. 1(1). 2 June 2012.
2012 “Detention on St-Denis.” n+1: Montreal Diaries Part II. 27 May 2012.
Co-Editor (with S. Castonguay, J. Spiegel, A. Thain, & S. Xin-Wei). Transmutations II. March 2013.
Co- Editor (with O. Chapman, A. Loader, K. Sawchuk, & B. Spencer) open-wi: out of the mouths of casseroles journal, organized by Mobile Media Lab. 2012.
Adjudicated screenings of microfemininewarfare: exploring women's space in electronic music (MA project)
October 2013. microfemininewarfare: exploring women’s space in electronic music at Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, Australia.
May 2013. microfemininewarfare: exploring women’s space in electronic music at Differential Mobilities Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Curator: Giuliana Cucinelli
April 2013. microfemininewarfare: exploring women’s space in electronic music atThe Storm of Progress: New Horizons, New Narratives, New Codes Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada. Curator: Maureen Engel and Caitlin Fisher.
Christian Oquendo
Thesis: Exploring the Frontiers between Communication & Non-Communication with Mexian Society
Supervisor: Ruggles, Myles
Committee: Skinner, David; Dowler, Kevin
Katrina Orlowski
Project: Asinabka Views: Place, Cultural Memory, and Documentary Practice
Supervisor: Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Committee Member/ Second Reader: McNab, David; Longfellow, Brenda
Karol Orzechowski
Thesis: Under the Flag? Identity and Nationalism in Canadian Rodeo
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee: MacLennan, Anne; Evans, Barbara
Josh Overbeek
MRP: The Soul of the Corporation: Authenticity and the Socially Responsible Employee
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Coulter, Natalie
Evren Ozselcuk
MRP: Realist, Surrealist, Real-ist: Exploring Three Voices of Critique Trhough the Works of Luis Bunel and Louis Althusser
Supervisor: Tschofen, Monique
Committee Member / Second Reader: O'Neill
Christian Oquendo
Thesis: Exploring the frontiers among communication and non communication: Exclusion, Conflict, and discursive Interactions about Maize within Mexican society
Supervisor: Ruggles, Myles
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
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Shoshana Palatnik
MRP: Nasa's Space Shuttle Program: Risk Assessment, the Normalization of Deviance, and Irrational Decision-Making
Supervisor: McArthur, Dan
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Danielle Paroyan
MRP: A Public Relation Approach to Post-Soviet Nation Building
Supervisor: Skinner, David
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred
Cortney Pasternak
MRP: Media Discourses of Women in Conflict Zones: (Mis) Representations of Palestinian Women
Supervisor: Alhassen, Amin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Jason Peng
MRP: Time is Money: A Historical Analysis of the Mutual Construction of Clock-Time and Capitalism
Supervisor: Schifellite, Carmen
Committee Member / Second Reader: Sears, Alan
Delmy Xiomara Peraza-Torres
MRP: Refugee Political Transnationalism in El Salvador: The Role of Local Governments
Supervisor: Goldring, Luin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John
Malve Petersmann
MRP: Mindy is Missing and Stephen is Home: Lost and Found Pet Posters as a Form of Micro-Communication in an Urban Space
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Pablo Petrucci
Project: Cornergig: A New Media Experiment: Understanding New Media, Music, and Local Experience
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee Members: Fletcher, Fred; Van Der Bleek, Robert
Jaigris Phillips (Hodson)
Thesis: Web 2.0 A Case Study: New Information Technology and Public Reason
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crichlow, Warren
Daniel Pillai
MRP: Reclaiming the "Local" Through the "Foreign": And Analysis of Contemporary Bollywood Cinema
Supervisor: Sapra, Rahul
Committee Member / Second Reader: Drummond, Lisa
Marcelina Piotrowski
Thesis: Matter as Movement: Exploring the Role of Movement in Henri Bergson and Bruno Latour
Supervisor: Janine, Marchessault
Committee Member / Second Reader: Elmer, Greg
Shelagh Pizey-Allen
MRP: Activating Space: Listening to Toronto Soundwalks
Supervisor: Berland, Jody
Committee Member / Second Reader: Blake, Art
Cassandra Poley
Project: Sexually Transmitted Communication: Getting Between the Sheets with Technology
Supervisor: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
Committee Members: Bell, Shannon; Bailey, Steven
Robert Price
Thesis: The Taxpayer: A Simmelian Analysis of the Taxpayer as a Social Type and an Analysis of Taxpayer Discourse
Supervisor: Blum, Alan
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John; Burke, Mike
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Project: Cinema of Rapture: the Rhythms of Flesh in Ecriture Feminine and Experimental Cinema
Supervisor: Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Feldman, Seth; Longfellow, Brenda
Sylwia Przezdziecki
Project: Bridging the Gap: Stories and the Search for Family History
Supervisor: Panofsky, Ruth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Podnieks, Elizabeth
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Susan Quail
Thesis: Conceptions of the Body in Obesity Epidemic Discourses
Supervisor: Sears, Alan
Committee Member / Second Reader: Podnieks, Elizabeth; Mooers, Colin; Driver, Susan
Erin Queck
MRP: Masculinity and Space: Why Men Love Man Caves
Supervisor: Hornstein, Shelley
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Tschofen, Monique
Fatima Quraan
Project: Las Meninas (The Ladies in Waiting): Where does "She" Exist? A Preliminary Suggestion for Construction an Ontological Space for the Feminine
Supervisor: Pantev, Boris; Bailey, Steven
Committee Member / Second Reader: Pelkin, Jamin; Friedman, May
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Mahshid Rafiei
Project: Images: Context, Encounter and Communication
Supervisor: Singer, Yvonne
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Elder, Bruce; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Sahar Rahmani
MRP: The Conscious Revolution of Mind/Body Integration Through the Re-Feminization of Culture
Supervisor: Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Small, Holly
Christina Raimondo
MRP: The New Advertainment
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member / Second Reader: Ruggles, Myles
Ryan Ram
MRP: Canada Loses: Discourse Surrounding Moments of Loss in Canada's National Winter Sport
Supervisor: Neverson, Nicole
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne
Rekha Ramachandran
Project: Inter-action: An Intermedia Representation of the Construction of Self in Multicultural Spaces
Supervisor: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
Committee Members: Naghibi, Nima; Longfellow, Brenda
Kayla Ramlochand
MRP: Digital Gaydar; Locating and being located online and off
Supervisor: Middleton, Catherine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Ruggles, Myles
Jessica Ranger
MRP: A Paradigm Shift: Consolidation of Canada's Communication Industries
Supervisor: Baskoy, Tuna
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
Priya Rehal
MRP: Navigating Transcultural Identity and Post Colonialism through Steampunk and Cosplay
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Coulter, Natalie
Pamela Rice
MRP: Who Has Time to be Online?: Staying Informed of Learning and Debates in the New Media Public Sphere
Supervisor: Moore, Paul
Committee Member / Second Reader: Rowland, Wade
Teresa Ritter
Thesis: Aboriginal Peoples and Broadband Technology: An analysis of the gap between community expectations and the iniatives funded by Canadian Governments
Supervisor: Middleton, Catherine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Cohnstaedt, Joy; Krogh, Kari
Rebecca Roberts
MRP: "Re-moderning" MOMA: Space, power, discourse
Supervisor: Zemans, Joyce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Hudson, Donna
Eve Robertson
MRP: 'A Cultural Object Analysis of Nameplate Earrings
Supervisor: Fogarty, Mary
Committee Member / Second Reader: Alcedo, Patrick
Christian Robinson
Thesis: Next to Normal? Interrogating the Idea of the Abnormal Body
Supervisor: Bailey, Steven
Committee: Slopek, Ed; Bell, Shannon
Rodrigues- Beaudoin
Project: The Medium "Echoes" The Message: The Use of Nahuatl "Amate" Paper through Two Artistics Lenses
Supervisor: Longfellow, Brenda
Committee: Pine, Lila; Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella
Alex Rogalski
Project: Indopunk
Supervisor: Evans, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Edward
David Ross
MRP: Digital Literacy: E-reader and Educational Technologies for Children
Supervisor: Hadlaw, Jan
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Rebecca Rouse
Project: Woyzeck
Supervisor: Fisher, Caitlin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Innes, Christopher; Mason, Jean; Sapra, Rahul
Rebecca Rouse is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY. After her MA, she completed her PhD in Digital Media at the The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
Publications
Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader, Editors: Laura Hollengreen, Celia Pearce, Rebecca Rouse, Bobby Schweizer.
"Introduction."Laura Hollengreen, Rebecca Rouse.
(Forthcoming Winter 2013 from Carnegie Mellon ETC Press)
"Negotiating Immersion and Critical Distance in Panoramic Forms from the 18th Century to Augmented Reality."
Rebecca Rouse.
(ArtLine Catalog, forthcoming Fall 2013)
"Thinking Inside the Box: Meaning-Making in a Handheld AR Experience."
Evan Barba, Rebecca Rouse, Jay David Bolter, Blair MacIntyre. (2010)
Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. p. 19-26.
"(In)box with Malcom."
Evan Barba, Rebecca Rouse, Jay David Bolter, Blair MacIntyre. (2009)
Proceeding of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition. p. 455-456.
"Dear Miss Millicent Jones."
Rebecca Rouse. (2006)
Public, d://personal (34) p.48-51.
"Teamwork in the Performing Arts."
William B. Rouse, Rebecca Rouse. (2004)
Proceedings of the IEEE: Special Issue on Engineering & Music 92 (4) p.606-615.
"Understanding and Supporting Teams in the Performing Arts."
William B. Rouse, Rebecca Rouse. (2001)
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Human Supervision and Control in Engineering and Music p. 233-237.
Aimee Roy
MRP: The Word on the Street is "Festivalization": A Case Study
Supervisor: Shields, John
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
Caitlin Russell
MRP: What 'Heather Picks' for Canada: An Analysis of the Current Bookselling Industry
Supervisor: Panofsky, Ruth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Cohnstaedt, Joy
Effifa Russo
MRP: Minorities in the Media: An Analysis of South Asian Representation in Contemporary Sitcoms
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Jamal, Amina
Steve Ryder
MRP: Cracking Visual Skulls: Enumerating and categorizing player narratives of interpersonal conflict in the massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, as a basis for pedogogical and social change in virtual game and community design
Supervisor: Singer, Yvonne
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne
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Boke Saisi
Thesis: Black Diasporic Disasters and the Africanization of Poverty in Western print media: A case study of Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian Earthquake in the New York Times
Supervisor: Robinson, Danielle
Committee Members: Mooers, Colin; Anderson, Karen
Maria Samur
MRP: Cyberactivism in Practice: A study of online strategies employed by Adbusters and rabble.ca
Supervisor: Drache, Daniel
Committee Member / Second Reader: Crow, Barbara
Anne-Marie Santerre
MRP: Dance And Invisible Disablity: How Mental Health Issues Can Be Represented Through Dance
Supervisor: Robinson, Danielle
Committee Member / Second Reader: Steven, Bailey
Ryan Scheiding
MRP: "Those Poor Civilians of Raccoon City": The Collective Memory & Allegorical References to Atomic Bomb Victims in Resident Evil
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Peter Schmidt
MRP: Constructing Imperial Hegemony in American Media Culture
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mazepa, Patricia
Steven Schnoor
MRP: Ideology and Technology of the Third Reich: IBM and the Final Solution
Supervisor: Mooers, Colin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Hanke, Bob
Brendan Scott
MRP: Neo-liberalism and Democratic Alternatives
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Yukari Seko
Thesis: Online Suicidal Mumurs: Analyzing self-distructive discourses in the blogophere
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member / Second Reader: Kitzman, Andreas; Middleton, Catherine
Andrea Shabbar
Project: And You Thought I Was Powdering My Nose: Women's Washroom Graffiti
Supervisor: Barndt, Deb
Committee Member / Second Reader: Snyder, Don
Andie Shabbar is a PhD Candidate in Women's Studies and Feminist Research at Western University in London Ontario.
Publications
“Bathroom Graffiti: Un-closeting a Queer Materialist Ontology”. Quantum Possibilities: The
Work Of Karen Barad. Spec. Issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 25.1: (2013 Forthcoming).
“Secret Stash: Accumulation, Hoarding and the Love of Stuff “. Journal of Modern Craft. 6.2 (2013) (Review, forthcoming).
Selected Art Exhibitions
“Pass-her-bi” (film), Concordia University, Montreal QC. April 2013
“Bathroom Graffiti Matters” (installation), Emergence: Queer Art Festival. London ON. Feb 2013
“Public Spaces, Private Places” (photography), Ladyfest London. London ON. June 2012
“Public Space, Private Places” (photography), The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON. Nov. 2010
Samantha Sharp
MRP: Tinder: The Perversity of the Swipe
Supervisor: Shtern, Jeremy
Committee Member / Second Reader: Coulter, Natalie
Shon Shum
MRP: Cultured meat or frankenfood? A study of the normalizing and transforming discursive processes at work in the cultural politics of “meat”.
Supervisor: Pelkey, Jamin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Hadlaw, Jan
Elliot Silverstein
MRP: Media Melee: The Emergence of the Internet as a Political Vehicle in Canadian Election Campaigns
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John
Jennifer Sipos
Project: The Right Road: Finding the Freedom to Create An Exploration of the Prison Metaphor in Select Autobiographical Accounts of the Creative Process
Supervisor: Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred
Christopher Smith
Project: Publicity: Notes on the Politics of Public Space in the Postmodern Cityscape
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin
Julian Smith
Thesis: Reunion: Duchamps, Cage and Ludology
Supervisor: Gammel, Irene
Committee: Korrick, Leslie; Bailey, Steven
Sasha Smith
Project: Does Your Hair Matter? Black Women and the Meaning Their Hair Has for Them
Supervisor: Persram, Nalini
Committee Members: Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella; Parsons, Sarah
Abbas Somji
Project: Visible vs. Invisible Minorities: A Study of Toronto Newsrooms
Supervisor: Davis, Charles
Committee Member / Second Reader: Callison, Darcey
Efstathia Spathara
MRP: Targeted Advertising Through Surveillance of Social Media Users' Activities and Interests
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member / Second Reader: Zwick, Detlev
Douglas Spielman
MRP: Immaterial Labour and the Law of Value: On the Theoretical Grounding of the Immaterial Labour Thesis and the Continued Relevance of Marx's Theory of Value
Supervisor: Skinner, David
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
Elisabeth Springate
Thesis: Networks of Resistance: Digital Media, Storytelling, and Acts of Resistance to Sexual Assault
Supervisor: Crow, Barbara
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin; Murphy, Michael
Milena Stanoeva
Thesis: Hate Watching Trash TV: Intersection of Class and Anti-Fandom
Supervisor: Bruce, Jean
Committee Member / Second Reader: Bailey, Steven; MacLennan, Anne
E. Charlotte Stevens
Thesis: Chasing Semiotic Rabbits: The Proliferation of Meaning in Doctor Who Fanvids
Supervisor: Brayton, Jennifer
Committee: Bailey, Steven; Lessard, Bruno
Michael Stiavnicky
Thesis: Stop! Hey, What's that Sound?: A Critical Re-Examination of the Socio-Political functions of 1960's Popular Music in America
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee: Wekerle, Gerde
Kerilee Stone
Project: Medication Meditation
Supervisor: Driver, Susan
Committee Members: Jenson, Jennifer; Fisher, Jennifer
Marisol Suarez Saiz
Project: The Cultural Evolution of Celtic Patterns
Supervisor: Schwarz, Judith
Committee Member / Second Reader: Gillies, Donald
Abigail Suissa
MRP: Rising from the Ashes: Gender, power and agency in Game of Thrones
Supervisor: Walsh-Matthews, Stephanie
Committee Member / Second Reader: Pelkey, Jamin
Whitney Sweet
Project: #FatWomenAre
Supervisor: Callison, Darcey
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne; Uppal, Priscila
David Synyard
MRP: Imag (e) ining the self in Self-Portraits and Selfies: The self as Media and Sexual Object
Supervisor: Zryd, Michael
Committee Member / Second Reader: Rogers, Ken
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Taha Taha
MRP: Media and Development Communication in Syria: The Restructuring of Syrian Media
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
Nicholas Taylor
MRP: Playing by the books: Working out the Dichotemy Between "Learn and Play"
Supervisor: Jensen, Jennifer
Committee Member / Second Reader: Slopek, Ed
Matthew Tegelberg
Thesis: Tourism, Representation and Lonely Planet Cambodia: A critical discourse analysis.
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Edward Slopek, Patricia Mazepa
Emma Thompson
Thesis: Left Out: A Revealing Look Into the Everyday Fashion Choices of Individuals With Mobility Disabilities
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Reisenleitner, Markus; Halifax, Nancy
Brigid Tierney
MRP: An Urban Encounter: Affect, Aesthetic, and the Poetics of Public Portraits
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Tschofen, Monique
Filip Tisma
MRP: The Sick Environment: Cities, Mobility, and Mental Health
Supervisor: Elder, Bruce
Committee Member / Second Reader: Callison, Darcey
Sonja Touesnard
Thesis: Workplace 2.0: How Worker Productivity Is Shaped Through Office Design
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fred; Shtern, Jeremy
Monique Twigg
Thesis: The Impact of TRIPS on UNDP Information Technology, Programmes and ICT Diffusion in Latin America: Policy Alternative
Supervisor: Shields, John
Committee Member / Second Reader: Coombe, Rosemary; Seaton, Elizabeth
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Sara Udow
Project: The Global Roots Oral History Project: An Arts-based Storytelling Project Exploring Themes of Place, Food and Culture in Multiethnic Cities www.globalrootsstories.thestop.org
Supervisor: Barndt, Deb
Committee Member / Second Reader: Marchessault, Janine
Peter Unwin
MRP: The Black Art: Ink and the Biological Origins of Communication
Supervisor: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
Committee Member / Second Reader: Fletcher, Fredd
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Deepa Venkatesa
MRP: F se Feminism
Supervisor: Longfellow, Brenda
Committee Member / Second Reader: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
Robyn Verley
MRP: Queer Expression from the Anglophone Caribbean Diaspora: An Analysis of Queer Diasporic Artistic Expression by Staceyann Chin and Lawrence Graham-Brown
Supervisor: Hayward, Mark
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Neverson, Nicole
Caroline Verner
Thesis: Locating Cyberpunk within the Cinema of Resistance: Visions of the Popular and the Postmodern
Supervisor: Forsyth, Scott
Committee: McCullough, John; Bell, Shannon
Sophia Vlahos
MRP: Missing in Representation Aboriginal Recipes and Culinary Practices in Canadian Cookbooks
Supervisor: Koç, Mustafa
Committee Member/ Second Reader: McCullough, John
Annie Vong
MRP: Heidegger on the Phone: An Ontological Inquiry of the History of Telephony between 1900-1990
Supervisor: Bailey, Steve
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Pruska-Oldenhof, Isabella
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Jordan Waldman
MRP: The Digital Divide and Social Inclusion: Media Literacy for Older Adults
Supervisor: MacLennan, Anne
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Bailey, Steven
William Wallace
Project: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: A Kitchener-Waterloo Case Study
Supervisor: Elmer, Greg
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Latham, Robert; Hayward, Mark
Randall Walter
MRP: Racial Profiling of Blacks Living in the Greater Toronto Area
Supervisor: Fisher, Caitlin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Tator, Carol
Jing Wang
MRP: Individual Exposures to History: Examining Individual Existence in Postmodern History through Postmodern Cinema
Supervisor: Marchessault, Janine
Committee Member / Second Reader: Forsyth, Scott
Robert Washburn
Thesis: The Future of Journalism Online: A Case for e-journalism
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee: Skinner, David; Middleton, Catherine
Joshua Weale
MRP: Canadian Style Healthcare: The Media Portrayals of Canada's Healthcare System during the US Health Reform debate of 2009-10
Supervisor: Cukier, Wendy
Committee Member/ Second Reader: Theissen, James
Jessica Weisner (Moore)
MRP: Representations of Motherhood: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Vegan Mommyblogs
Supervisor: Podnieks, Elizabeth
Committee Member/ Second Reader: O'Reilly, Andrea
Daniel Wiley
Thesis: Media Development, Information Operations, and the Liberal Peace
Supervisor: Latham, Robert
Committee Members: Mazepa, Patricia; Mooers, Colin
Arlene Williams
Thesis: The Political Economy of Communication and the Policy Communities Approach: Connecting Critical View of the Media to Post-Pluralist Analyses fo the Policy Process
Supervisor: Salter, Liora
Committee Member / Second Reader: Dowler, Kevin; Johns, Carolyn
Cheryl Williams
MRP: Courting the Child Consumer: The Role of the Nineteenth Century Press in Children's Commercial Enculturation, 1835-1900
Supervisor: Moore, Paul
Committee Member / Second Reader: MacLennan, Anne
Lesley Williams
Thesis: Manoeuvring the Peacemaking Myth: Canadian New Media Reports in the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan
Supervisor: Mazepa, Patricia
Committee: Whitworth, Sandra
As the Manager of Aboriginal Affairs and Resource Development for the PDAC, Lesley leads the development of research, advocacy and projects to support increasing Aboriginal participation in the mineral industry and improving relationships between companies and communities. In her role, Lesley has focused on collaborating with the mineral sector, Aboriginal communities and leaders, and various levels of government to actively promote greater understanding and co-operation between Aboriginal communities and the mineral industry in Canada. Lesley represents the PDAC at national conferences and events, volunteers on a number of advisory committees throughout the sector. She also manages the Aboriginal Program at the PDAC annual Convention that is renowned for providing a platform for discussion on fostering mutually cooperative, respectful and successful relationships between Aboriginal communities and the mineral industry.
Since joining the PDAC in 2009, Lesley has held the positions of Program Assistant and Program Manager and has been involved in a number of the PDAC program areas including Aboriginal Affairs, Corporate Social Responsibility, Geoscience, Lands and Regulations and Government Relations.
Lesley holds an M.A. in Communications and Culture with a specialization in politics and policy, and a B.A. in Communications and English.
David Williamson
MRP: The Impact of the Freemium Economic Model on Virtual Play Spaces
Supervisor: Pelkey, Jamin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Jenson, Jennifer
Deborah Wilson
MRP: Consumer Culture, Gender & The Construction of The Female Shopaholic
Supervisor: Brayton, Jennifer
Committee Member / Second Reader: Siegel, Arthur
Alison Withers
MRP: Recipes of a Nation: Themes of Canadian National Identity in Anita Stewart's Canada
Supervisor: Coulter, Natalie
Committee Member / Second Reader: Koç, Mustafa
Jess Woods
MRP: Human Computer "intra-action" in New Media Literacy
Supervisor: Viseu, Ana
Committee Member / Second Reader: Rowland, Wade
Mark Woods
Project: Outrageously Political: "The Use of Queer Theory and Camp in the Subversion of Heterosexist Action Adventure Film"
Supervisor: Denisoff, Dennis
Committee Member / Second Reader: Longfellow, Brenda
Kristin Wozniak
Thesis: Perceiving Democracy: Exploring the Democratic and Community Development Potential of Student Newspapers on University Campuses
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Cukier, Wendy
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Lan (Sheila) Xu
MRP: Changes in China's Media Since Economic Reform
Supervisor: Allen, Gene
MSR: Seaton, Beth
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Zhicong Yang
MRP: From a Case Study to see the changes in Chinese Television Industry in the new century
Supervisor: Feldman, Seth
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Nikki Yeboah
MRP: Poverty Inc: An Investigation into the Commodification of Poverty
Supervisor: Alhassan, Amin
Committee Member / Second Reader: Skinner, David
Cindy Yip
MRP: Contribution of Asian Dance to the Conception of Canadian Identity
Supervisor: Cohnstaedt, Joy
Committee Member / Second Reader: Odom, Selma
Dan (Angela) Yu
MRP: Chinese Television Reform
Supervisor: Allen, Gene
Committee Member / Second Reader: Seaton, Elizabeth
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Wenjun Zhang
MRP: Canada and China: A Case Study of Selected Film Co-Productions
Supervisor: Cohnstaedt, Joy
Committee Member / Second Reader: Mooers, Colin
Sandra Zichermann
MRP: Realistic Promises? Or Unrealistic Goals? Canadian Government's Response to Romanow's Health Care Funding Initiatives
Supervisor: Fletcher, Fred
Committee Member / Second Reader: Shields, John
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