The CCA is a national, bilingual organization that brings together teachers, researchers, and professionals from the public and private sectors to promote the investigation of communication, media and technology-relevant issues in Canada, and around the world.

Many School of Communication graduate students and faculty members attended the Canadian Communication Association's 2023 Annual Conference at York University. Congratulations to everyone who participated! In no particular order, please see the list below for a recap of the CMNS attendees at the CCA Conference.

Alberto Lusoli and Fred Lesage

Alberto Lusoli and Fred Lesage presented "Design Thinking as an Epistemic Practice in Media Production" in the "Approaches in Critical Media Theory" panel.

Enda Brophy

Enda Brophy presented "Worker Inquiry and Wall-To-Wall Organizing at Google" in the "Labour Movements in the Digital Media Industry" panel.

Adjua Akinwumi

Adjua Akinwumi presented "Tracking Ebola: Conceptualizing the Human in Call Detail Record Technologies" in the "On the Politics and Epistemologies of Health" panel.

Rowan Melling

Rowan Melling presented "Inbetween What's Inbetween: Using Remediation for Ideology Critique" in the "Ethics and Affect in Social Media Research and Research-Creation" panel.

Stephanie Dick

Stephanie Dick participated in "AI Nationalism: On Technological Governance in Canada and Building Artificial Intelligence Otherwise," an AI Nationalism roundtable discussion with other scholars.

Daniel Ahadi

Daniel Ahadi chaired the "Body, Politics, and Representation in Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' Uprising" panel session.

Mozhgan Fazil

Mozhgan Fazil presented "Not So Green: Paradigm Shift in the Iranian Political Resistance Discourse and the Political Economy of Protest in Iran from 2009 to 2022" in the "Body, Politics, and Representation in Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' Uprising" panel.

Hoornaz Keshavarzian

Hoornaz Keshavarzian presented "Revolutionary Mise-En-Scènes and the Politics of Performative Definace in Woman, Life, Freedom" in the "Body, Politics, and Representation in Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' Uprising" panel.

Carina Albrecht

Carina Albrecht presented "Can Information Networks Not Be Markets? Exploring Sustainable Alternative For Search and Recommendation" in the "Algorithmic Cultures: Opening the Black Box" panel.

Kayla Hilstob

Kayla Hilstob presented "Rethinking Dependency In Canadian Communication" in the "Approaches in Critical Media Theory" panel.

Kayla Hilstob also chaired the "Wartime Petrocultures: Energy, Nationalism, and Media" panel session.

Dalton Kamish, Kayla Hilstob, Matt Canute, and Svitlana Matviyenko

Dalton Kamish, Kayla Hilstob, Matt Canute, and Svitlana Matviyenko presented "Instrumentalizing War: Mainstreaming 'Ethical Oil' on Twitter" in the "Wartime Petrocultures: Energy, Nationalism, and Media" panel.

Nastaran Saremy

Nastaran Saremy presented "Jina's Uprising, The Intermedial Archiving and Multiple Temporalities: Between Bodies, Sensations, and Subjectivities" in the panel that Daniel Ahadi chaired.

Amy Harris

Amy Harris presented "Museums for the Future; The Role of the Imagination in Climate Change Communication" in the "Mediated Imaginaries of the Climate Crisis" panel.

Cait McKinney

Cait McKinney participated in the "How Technical Systems Communicate" roundtable discussion with other scholars.

Alberto Lusoli

Alberto Lusoli chaired the "From Counterspeech to Counterplay: Opposing Toxicity and Hate in Gaming" panel session.

Alberto Lusoli also chaired the "Performances of Authenticity and the Spread of Mis/disinformation Online" panel session.

Maria Sommers

Maria Sommers presented "Hate Raiders of the Lost Ark: A Media Genealogy of Hate Raids on Twitch" in the "From Counterspeech to Counterplay: Opposing Toxicity and Hate in Gaming" panel.

Ben Scholl

Ben Scholl presented "Non-Fungible Play: A Performative Framework of Toxic Gameplay" in the From Counterspeech to Counterplay: Opposing Toxicity and Hate in Gaming" panel.

Kirsten McAllister

Kirsten McAllister presented "World-Making and the Ethics of Encounter: The Transpacific Artwork of Cindy Mochizuki" in the "Living as Diasporas: Identity Construction Through the Media" panel.

Stuart Poyntz

Stuart Poyntz participated in the "Canadian Journal of Communication Discussion - Independent Publishing Challenges Now: Copyright, Fair Dealing, Open Access, and More" roundtable discussion with other scholars.

Anthony Burton

Anthony Burton presented "Authoritarian Reason: Agitational Tendencies in Contemporary Politics" in the "Independent Publishing Challenges" rountable discussion.

Prem Sylvester

Prem Sylvester presented "Canadian Journalism of Communication Discussion: Independent Racism During Covid-19" in the Independent Publishing Challenges" rountable discussion.

Thomas Dickson

Thomas Dickson presented "Uncharted Streams: The Online Streaming Act as a Case Study in Canadian Film Policy" in the "Adapting or Resisting Change? The Challenges of Canadian Telecom" panel.

Jiaqi Wen

Jiaqi Wen presented "Thermal Engineering and the Comfort Zone of Computation" in the "Media Materialities and Archaeologies" panel.

Katherine Reilly

Katherine Reilly participated in the "Pedagogies of Communication Studies After the Pandemic" roundtable discussion with other scholars.

Mariane Bourcheix

Mariane Bourcheix chaired the "Career Avenues to Pursue Research Post-Graduation" caucus roundtable and also participated in the discussion with other graduate students.

Mariane Bourcheix and Thomas Dickson

Mariane Bourcheix and Thomas Dickson presented "Online Streaming Act and the Regulation of Online Undertakings: New Players in the Canadian Broadcasting System" in the "It's All Broadcasting! Or Maybe Narrowing for All: Emergent Issues for IP Management, Cultural Governance, and Digital Platforms" panel.

Saemi Jung

Saemi chaired the "Reckonings with Racial Injustices I" panel and also presented "Understanding Anti-Asian Racism in the Covid-19 Era: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian News Coverage from 2020 to 2022" within the session.

Milena Droumeva

Milena Droumeva chaired the "Affects, Imaginaries, and Futures" panel session.

Milena Droumeva also presented "Far Right Soundscapes: A Sound Studies Exploration of 'Nationalist Audio' on Telegram" in the "Critical Studies of Soundscape and Sonification" panel.

Milena Droumeva and Svitlana Matviyenko

Milena Droumeva and Svitlana Matviyenko presented "Ukraine, Sonic Worlds Collide: Reflexivity and Truth in Media Storytelling" in the "Affects, Imaginaries, and Futures" panel.

Darren Fleet

Darren Fleet presented "Made the Canadian Way: 'Conflict Oil,' National Identity, and the War in the Ukraine" in the "Wartime Petrocultures: Energy, Nationalism, and Media" panel.

Melanie Vidakis

Melanie Vidakis presented "Cyberspace in Place: Critical Digital Citizen Studies" in the "Learning and Living with Media and Technology" panel.

Ahmed Al-Rawi and Sadia Nasrin

Ahmed Al-Rawi and Sadia Nasrin presented "Mediated Democracy and Racism Discourses in Canada" in the "Reckonings with Racial Injustices II" panel.

Victoria Thomas

Victoria Thomas chaired the "Representing Diversity in Cultural Industries" panel and also presented "How did We Get Here? Satire as Activism on the Amber Ruffin Show" within this session.

Xiaosu Li

Xiaosu Li presented "No More Disability Dongles: Re-Imaging Critical Disability Design" in the "Communication & (Dis)ability" panel.  

 

Great work to everyone who participated in the 2023 CCA Annual Conference!