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Expertise: Ethnic media, media representation, media representation of Muslims/the Middle East, multiculturalism policy, political communication
Expertise: Social media, news, popular culture, Middle East, and global communication
Expertise: Communication and cultural policy, communication and sustainable development, communication to mitigate disasters, public warning systems; director, Telematics Research Lab
Expertise: Consumer culture studies, Television, Advertising, Media and ideology, Communication and social space
Expertise: Science, technology & society theory; IT & work; health sector; technology assessment; women & ICTs
Expertise: Communication history, communication theory, cultural policy, feminist analysis, feminist research, film studies, video studies
Expertise: Political economy of communication; communication and social change; labour and collective organizing in the media and communication industries; autonomist marxism; digital and communicative dimensions of debt; and call centres
Expertise: Games and play, live-action role-playing, digital labour, creative industries, game production, media ethnography, wearables, sleep and dreams, social media disconnection
Expertise: Blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, social media, big data, technology and communication, internet, health, genomics and health, bioethics, biotechnology and science, social networks, race/racism
Wendy Chun
Professor | Canada 150 Research Chair
T: 778-782-7599
E: whkchun@sfu.ca
Room: TASC II 7812
Expertise: Indigenous Media (film, television etc), indigenous cultural production and representation
Milena Droumeva
Assistant Professor | Glenfraser Endowed Professor
T: 778-782-3731
E: mvdroume@sfu.ca
Room: K9678
Expertise: Soundscapes, urban design/liveability, gender and media, gender and gaming, sonification
Expertise: Documentary and educational media, media institutions and infrastructures, feminist media studies, cultural theory
Expertise: Technology, internet, online education, student revolt, may events, distance learning, Japanese philosophy, online community
Expertise: Platform governance, future of journalism, ethics and accountability of the media, funding models for media, public service media, digital policy, audience-industry relationships, hate speech, freedom of expression, communicative rights, media systems and audiences (European Union and Latin America).
Shane Gunster
Associate Professor | Associate Director
T: 778-782-6916
E: sgunster@sfu.ca
Room: K9670
Expertise: Environmental and energy issue, activist and advocacy communication, political communication, advertising and consumer culture, critical theories of culture
Expertise: Communication Technology, Informatics, Computer mediated communication, Educational technology (Media), Online education, Telelearning, Telework, Virtual learning
Expertise: Internet studies & digital culture, big data, AI ethics, surveillance, smart machines, Internet of Things, disinformation
Expertise: Multimodal composition and analysis; mediated dialogue; metadata and communication design; situated pedagogical design
Expertise: Globalization, transnational culture, Asian media and culture, online game and broadband, political economy of media, telecommunications
Expertise: applied communication for social issues, media and popular culture, communication and media for public engagement and social change, media advocacy, media education and digital culture, pedagogy and educational futures
Expertise: Cultural and creative organizations, software studies, digital infrastructure, co-creative work, new media
Expertise: Internet, Social Media, Television, Cinema
Jan Marontate
Associate Professor | Director
T: 778-782-3383 / 778-782-5449
E: cmnsdir@sfu.ca / jmaronta@sfu.ca
Room: K9685 / K8655
Expertise: cultural heritage, art worlds, cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary technical communication networks, preservation of new media, cultural labour and institutions, international cultural policy, cultural sociology and critical ethnography
Expertise: Political economy of information, information and cyberwar, social media, mobile media, infrastructure studies, posthumanism, history and philosophy of science, cybernetics and psychoanalysis, soviet and post-soviet techno-politics
Expertise: Visual culture, cultural memory, political violence, photography, memorials, multi-media art, interviews, field work, Asylum and displaced populations, Japanese/Asian Canadian cultural studies
Expertise: Health studies, film studies, history & theory of communication, privacy & technology, advertising & consumer culture
Expertise: sexuality studies, media history, LGBTQ media, activism, feminist media studies
David Murphy
Senior Lecturer | Undergraduate Chair
T: 778-782-3623
E: davidcot@sfu.ca
Room: TASC2- 7460.6
Expertise: Media and technology, media literacy and analysis, social impacts of media use , social impacts of technological developments, aesthetic design in media production
Expertise: Digital media, youth, public sphere, children and media culture
Katherine Reilly
Associate Professor | GCMA Program Director
T: 778-782-8845
E: kreilly@sfu.ca
Room: K9682
Expertise: Social impacts of sharing economy; policy issues in sharing economy; sharing economy and international development; sharing economy in Latin America; Canadian data and platform economy policy
Expertise: Information technology, internet, videogames, surveillance, mobility and society
Expertise: Cultural studies, feminisms, migrant labor, social movements, alternative media, global digital media, political economy of communication
Expertise: Political economy of global communication, media & democracy, communication industries in China
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