Our Faculty
What makes us different is the inspiring, dedicated, creative people behind our school
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: Emergency communications, tsunami warning systems, communication to mitigate disasters; director, Telematics lab, mobile emergency comms vehicle
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
Peter Chow-White
Professor | Director
T: 778-782-3383
E: cmnsdir@sfu.ca / peter_chow-white@sfu.ca
Room: K9685
Expertise: Blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, social media, big data, technology and communication, internet, health, genomics and health, bioethics, biotechnology and science, social networks, race/racism
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).
Expertise: Popular culture & media, communications & cultural theory
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: New media, big data, smart machines, technology & society, public feelings
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: Media analysis, popular culture, ideology, social advertising, social issues communication, sociology of communication
Expertise: Cultural and creative organizations, software studies, digital infrastructure, co-creative work, new media
Expertise: Journalism, broadcasting, media and social movement, media democratization, media studies, news and ideologies, political communication, public opinion, sociology of communication
Kirsten McAllister
Associate Professor | Graduate Chair
T: 778-782-6917
E: kmcallis@sfu.ca
Room: K9660
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: 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
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
Expertise: Global social networks, communication rights, social justice, human rights and citizenship.
Expertise: Information technology, internet, videogames, surveillance, mobility and society
Expertise: Political economy of global communication, media & democracy, communication industries in China
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