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Curriculum Vitae of MARC RABOY May 2016 Office De Curriculum vitae of MARC RABOY May 2016 ______________________________________________________________________________ Office Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke St. W. (Arts Building W-287) telephone: 1-514-398-2211 Montréal, Québec H3A 0G5 fax: 1-514-398-7247 Canada. e-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION page 2 CURRENT AND RECENT POSITIONS HELD 2 AREAS OF SCHOLARLY INTEREST 3 CURRENT AND RECENT ACTIVITIES 3 Research 3 Teaching 4 Administration 4 External activities 5 Other activities 7 PREVIOUS ACTIVITIES 8 Teaching 8 Research 9 Administration 10 Other past activities 11 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 14 Journalism 14 Community organizing 14 SCHOLARLY LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS 15 PUBLICATIONS 39 Books 39 Book chapters 40 Journal articles 48 Book reviews 52 Articles in professional and other media 53 Reports and documents 56 Curriculum vitae of MARC RABOY 2 GENERAL INFORMATION Canadian citizen, male, born 17 February 1948 Fully bilingual in English and French B.Sc. (McGill, 1968); M.A. (Communication, McGill, 1981); Ph.D. (Communication, McGill, 1986) Professional background: Print, radio and television journalism, 1969-77 Community organizing, 1977-79 University teaching and research since 1980 CURRENT AND RECENT POSITIONS HELD Full Professor, Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, since 1 August 2004. Founding Director and Chair, Academic Steering Committee, Media@McGill, 2005-2012. Director, Joint PhD in Communication (University of Montreal / Concordia University / University of Quebec at Montreal), 2002-2004. Professor and head, Communication Policy Research Laboratory, Department of Communication, University of Montreal, 1993-2004. Consultant to UNESCO and World Bank Institute, 1993-2008. Member of International Council, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), 2000-2012. Chair, IAMCR Global Media Policy Working Group, 1998-2008. Member of International Organizing Committee, Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) campaign, 2001-2006. Expert advisor, Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, House of Commons, Ottawa, for its study on the state of Canadian broadcasting, 2001-2003. President, Canadian Communication Association, 1997-98. Founder and member of governing board, Graham Spry Fund for Public Broadcasting, since 1996. Full professor, University of Montreal, 1993-2004; assistant, associate and full professor, Laval University, 1986-93; part-time professor, Concordia University, 1980-86. Visiting scholar, Stockholm University, 1992-93; visiting research fellow, University of Oxford, 1997-2001; visiting scholar, McGill University, 1999-2000; visiting scholar, New York University, 2008; visiting professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2015-2016. Curriculum vitae of MARC RABOY 3 AREAS OF SCHOLARLY INTEREST Communication and media policy issues in the context of globalization Political economy of mass media Social history and contemporary practices of media institutions Media and global governance Media and social movements General perspectives on communication, society and democracy CURRENT AND RECENT ACTIVITIES External Research Grants (2002-2016) Country representative for Canada, EU ‘Horizon 2020’ project, “Governing information societies – stakeholder imaginaries and their consequences”. PI: Robin Mansell (London School of Economics and Political Science). Total amount: 2.4 million Euros (submitted). “Marconi and Our Time: Innovation, Communication, Technology and Globalization.” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant. Individual grant. 2011-2015. $115,805. “Mapping Global Media and Communication Policy.” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant. Individual grant. 2008-2011, $80,792. “Good Practices in Voice, Media and Development.” Co-investigator with Monroe E. Price (Annenberg School for Communication). Project funded by the World Bank Institute. 2006-2008, US $147,890. “The new environment for global media governance.” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant. Individual grant. 2005-2008, $127,426. “Strategic Research Cluster on Media Governance”. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Strategic Research Clusters Design Grant. Principal investigator, with Catherine Murray, Florian Sauvageau and David Taras. 2005-2006, $30,000; 2006-2007, $25,000. “Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada. The State of the Art.” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Law Commission of Canada, Strategic Joint Initiative, Relationships in Transition Programme. Principal investigator, with Alain Ambrosi, William J. McIver, Laura Murray, Leslie Regan Shade and Sean O Siochru. 2006-2007. $39,978. “Governance of Broadcasting”. Canadian Consortium for Media Research. Co-investigator, with Florian Sauvageau. 2004-2005, $55,000. Curriculum vitae of MARC RABOY 4 Member of France-Quebec research team on “Internet as public good”, funded by the Commission permanente de Coopération Franco-québécoise, 2003-2004. Principal researcher on team grant, “New forms of cultural expression, communication technologies and changes in the normative environment”, funded by the Fonds québécois de recherches sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), 2002-05. $126,157. Internal Research Grants (McGill, 2004-2015) Beaverbrook Fund for Media@McGill, Strategic research grant, 2006-2007. $8,000. Teaching (McGill, 2004-2015) Graduate seminars, Communication Studies, McGill : “Global Media Governance”. “New Media Policy”. “Issues and Institutions in Global Communication Governance”. Senior undergraduate/graduate seminar, Communication Studies, McGill : “Canadian Broadcasting Policy”. Undergraduate lecture course, Communication Studies, McGill : “Media and Modernity in the Twentieth Century”. Supervision of masters’ theses, doctoral dissertations, postdoctoral students and international graduate research trainees. Administration (McGill, 2004-2015) Chair designate, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, 2016-2017. Chair, Graduate Programme in Communications admissions committee, 2014-2015. Director, Chair, academic steering committee and member of Board of governance, Beaverbrook Fund for Media@McGill 2005-2012. Member, cyclical review committee for Department of Philosophy, 2012. Graduate program director, Communication Studies, McGill, 2007-2008. Member, search committee for a position in Media and Public Policy, Art History and Communication Studies, McGill, 2008. Member, resources committee, Art History and Communication Studies, McGill, 2005- (chair in 2005-2006). Member, Dean’s advisory committee to select a Chair for the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts, McGill, 2005. Member, Research Committee, Faculty of Arts, McGill, 2005-2008. Curriculum vitae of MARC RABOY 5 Member, conference planning committee, “Are We American?”, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 2007-08. Member, Department tenure and promotion committee, Art History and Communication Studies, McGill, 2004- . External activities Co-chair, international steering committee, Mapping Global Media Policy project, Media@McGill and the International Association for Media and Communication Research, on-going Founding member, international advisory council, Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom (named for the imprisoned Saudi Arabian blogger), launched in September 2015. Member, organizing committee, Conference on the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Quebec City, 28-30 May 2015. Member, academic council, Digital Communication Impact Conference, Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul (Turkey), 16-17 October 2014. Expert advisor to project on ‘Networks and Power in gender-oriented communication governance’, principal investigator Claudia Padovani, 2011-2013. Co-chair (with Asu Aksoy) of Cultural Industries and Cultural Diversity, a conference organized by Media@McGill and the Cultural Management Research Institute (KPY) of Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul (Turkey), 12 July 2011. Co-chair (with Claudia Padovani) of The Wager of Democratic Communication, an international symposium at the University of Padova, Padova (Italy), 6-9 June 2011. Co-chair (with Florian Sauvageau), organizing committee and scientific programme committee, The Independent Newspaper: Elusive Dream or Beacon of Democracy?, international symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of Le Devoir, La grande bibliothéque, 12 March 2010. Co-organizer (with Claudia Padovani), international scientific workshop on Mapping Global Media Policy: Concepts, Frameworks, Methods, Isle of San Servolo, Venice, 17-18 April 2008. Member, jury for the Rideau Hall Michener-Deacon fellowship for public interest journalism, 2008 and 2009. External member of a vice-rector’s Committee to investigate a case of professorial plagiarism, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2008. Expert advisor to the World Bank for its project on Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability, 2006-2007. Curriculum vitae of MARC RABOY 6 Co-organizer (with Monroe E. Price), international conference on the future of public broadcasting, with the Center for Global Communication Studies of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania,
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