26 articles in this issue
Sibo Chen
Our dear colleague, Didi (Kyoung-ae) Han, will defend her MA Thesis on Monday, September 8th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 2250 (10 am -12 noon). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Communicating Communes: A Case Study of Urban Communing Movement in South... see more
Our dear colleague, Adam Bajan, will defend his MA Thesis on Friday, September 17th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1700 (10 am -12 noon). Here is the abstract of his thesis “Coastal Church: Community through Connectivity”.
Our dear colleague, Vincci Li, will defend her MA Thesis on Friday, September 25th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1700 (10 am -12 noon). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Shopping for Change”.
Vu Thuy Anh Phan
Our dear colleague, Robert Prey, will defend his PhD dissertation on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (10:30 am -1:30 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Now Playing, You: Big Data and the Production of Music Streaming S... see more
Our dear colleague, Geoffrey Glass, will defend his PHD dissertation on Wednesday, November 18th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (10:00 am- 1:00 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Comment Space”.
Our dear colleague, Stephan Struve, will defend his MA thesis on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 2200 (10:00 am -12:00 pm). Here is the abstract of his thesis “Shaping the Genohype: A Cautionary Tale of Overpromise”.
Our dear colleague, Philippa Adams, will defend her MA Thesis on Friday, December 10th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (2:00 pm - 4:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Creativity Within Constraints”.
Our dear colleague, Pietro Sammarco, will defend his MA Thesis on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1500 (1:00 am - 12:00 pm). Here is the abstract of his thesis “Waste Media Pedagogy”:
Our dear colleague, Amanda Oldring, will defend her MA Thesis on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1500 (1:00 pm - 3:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Tweeting Tsunami”:
Our dear colleague, Yuji Zhang, will defend her two MA extended essays on Thursday, January 14th, 2016 at Harbour Centre, Room HC 1415 (2:30-4:30). Here are the abstracts of the two extended essays: “China’s Quest for Soft Power” and "Re-examining Herbert... see more
Christine Rose Ackerley
There will be a public seminar with on Stuart Hall's relevance in the current conjuncture of political crisis. The seminar will take place on Oct. 9th, 2015 between 4:00 and 6:00 pm at room 2270, Harbour Centre. Please see the attached poster for details.
Policy Studies on Culture & CMNS (CPCC)
A CPCC public lecture on the topic of "Community Memory of Sexual Violence in Radical Environmental Organizations in the Pacific Northwest of USA" will be hosted on November 19, 2015 from 7:30 - 9 pm in room HC 7000 (SFU Vancouver). The event is sponsored... see more
(Post on behalf of Prof. Robert Hackett)There will be a public seminar by David Barsamian, the founder and director of Alternative Radio. The seminar will take place on November 4, 2015, starting at 1.30 p.m. in the CMNS Conference Room K8652 at Burnaby C... see more
Media Democracy Days 2015 will be hosted on November 7, 2015 starting at 11:00 am at the Vancouver Public Library. The day will begin with a Keynote Address from Jesse Brown of Canadaland, brought to you by the Spry Lecture at SFU and MDD. Then, there wi... see more
(Posted on behalf of Dr. Anil Narine)There will be a public lecture about the implications of Eco-Trauma Cinema on Thursday, 29 Oct 2015, starting at 7:00 pm at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St. The... see more
There will be a forum on unpaid internships to celebrate the publication of "Interrogating Internships: Unpaid Work, Creative Industries, and Higher Education"—a special issue of tripleC.The event will take place on November 4th, between 7:00 and 9:00 p... see more
There will be a day-long colloquium on Digital Media, Public Sphere, & the Development of Digital Systems on November 9, at Harbour Centre room 3100. The event starts at 9 am. Please see the attached poster for details.
The M.A. Double Degree Program in Global Communication is holding a workshop on ethnographic research in rural China, to share their initial analysis and experiences in the field. The workshop will be at SFU Harbour Centre, room 1530 from 7 pm to 9 pm on... see more
The first lecture in the School of Communication Brown Bag Lecture Series will run from 12-1PM at SFU Burnaby in the Mallinson Conference Room (K8652) following the departmental meeting on November 18. For more details, please see the poster below.
There will be a CPCC workshop on The Cultural Politics of Climate Change at SFU Harbour Centre, room 1530 on November 26, 2015, from 7:00- to 9:00 pm. Please see the attached poster for details.
Byron Hauck
Simon Fraser University’s motto is “Engage the Worldâ€. Few events are a better platform to see how this concept is put into action than at the year-end capstone presentations of SFU and the Communication University of China’s joint Double MA Degree... see more
Christine Ackerley, Sydney Ball
Over the 15 years since its inception Media Democracy Days (MDD) has provided a chance for the public to gather with members of Canadian independent media, journalists, and activists to discuss alternative media and the future of Canadian journalism. This... see more
Graeme Webb
From the “thunderous denunciations” of mass culture by the Frankfurt School to the ambivalence of Habermas towards mass media, it has been argued that we have moved from culture-debating to culture-consuming publics (Peters, 1993). We have abandoned the c... see more
Kavita Reddy
Using Marcuse’s reconciliation of Marx’s historical material critique of capitalist relationships with a phenomenological approach, this paper aims to develop a better understanding of the conceptualization of reason in the era of anthropogenic climate ch... see more
Michael Lang
In this paper I consider how the increase of Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) in Canada now threatens the autonomy of municipal water services. P3s have gained traction since the 1990s as a mechanism of private alternative service delivery that replace t... see more
Alison Fraser
For this examination, graffiti and neo-graffiti have been compared to public art in order to reveal the ideological constructions of urban public spaces. How does graffiti interact with the construction of urban public spaces? How is graffiti similar to a... see more