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Expertise: Ethnic media, media representation, media representation of Muslims/the Middle East, multiculturalism policy, political communication
Expertise: Social media, News, Computational journalism, Popular culture, International communication, Disinformation, Digital research methods
Expertise: Communication and cultural policy, communication and sustainable development, communication to mitigate disasters, public warning systems; director, Telematics Research Lab
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: 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: ddi_lab@sfu.ca
Room: TASC II 7812
Expertise: Indigenous Media (film, television etc), indigenous cultural production and representation
Expertise: Science and Technology studies; History of Science; Mathematics; Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Critical Algorithm Studies; Policing; Labor and Automation; Historical Epistemology
Milena Droumeva
Associate 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
Zoë Druick
Professor | Director
T: 778-782-3383
E: cmnsdir@sfu.ca / druick@sfu.ca
Room: K9685 / K9664
Expertise: Documentary and educational media, media institutions and infrastructures, feminist media studies, cultural theory
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).
Expertise: Environmental and energy issue, activist and advocacy communication, political communication, advertising and consumer culture, critical theories of culture
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
Frederik Lesage
Associate Professor | Undergraduate Chair
T: 778-782-9360
E: flesage@sfu.ca
Room: K8665
Expertise: Cultural and creative organizations, software studies, digital infrastructure, co-creative work, new media
Expertise: Internet, Social Media, Television, Cinema
Jan Marontate
Associate Professor | Associate Director
T: 778-782-5449
E: jmaronta@sfu.ca
Room: 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, media and environment, infrastructure studies, posthumanism, STS, cybernetics, psychoanalysis, Soviet techno-politics, nuclear cultures, Chernobyl
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
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
Expertise: Citizen or community data; Platform economy; Platform business models; Policy for the digital economy; Data policy regimes; Citizen data audits
Expertise: Black Popular Cultural Studies; Queer & Transgender Media Studies; Media Representation; Community-Based Participatory Research; Black Feminisms
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
Adjunct Faculty
Expertise: Games and play, live-action role-playing, digital labour, creative industries, game production, media ethnography, wearables, sleep and dreams, social media disconnection
Postdoctoral Fellows
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