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Master of Arts Degree Program in Communication & Social Justice
Graduate Student Handbook 2016-2017 University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Graduate Program Contacts
Dr. Brian A. Brown, Graduate Chair [email protected]
Ms. Sharron K. Wazny, Graduate Secretary [email protected]
University of Windsor Department of Communication, Media, and Film Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 PHONE: 519-253-3000, ext. 2897 FAX: 519-971-3642 Email: [email protected]
Web: www.uwindsor.ca/cmf/graduate-program
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAM
Established in 2002, the MA Program in Communication and Social Justice is a unique, student-centered program that offers individuals a distinctive opportunity to pursue their scholarly interests in a vibrant, diverse and supportive environment. With a critical mass of faculty needed to advance the study of communication and social justice, the program promotes innovative and original thinking, research, and practice.
Over the years, the program has attracted the interest of students from many parts of the globe—including Africa, India, Thailand, China, Mexico, Latin America, Turkey, the Caribbean, the United States and Canada. Such diversity has contributed to the rich tapestry of graduate student culture and is also reflected in the research undertaken by former and current students. Students in the program have presented their work at major international conferences on a wide variety of topics. Several have also been recipients of prestigious scholarships awarded by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Graduates of the program have gone on to pursue doctoral studies, teaching and law careers, and employment opportunities in the public and private sectors.
ADMISSION
See Section 1.6.1 of the Graduate Calendar for general admission requirements for graduate studies. See www.uwindsor.ca/graduate
Normally, successful applicants require an Honors B.A. in Communication/Media Studies or a cognate field. Students lacking formal admission requirements but accepted to the program on the basis of equivalent experience may be required to enroll in a qualifying year prior to formal admission to the program.
Applicants should submit a portfolio consisting of the following: (i) a completed on-line application form; (ii) a statement of purpose (approximately 350-400 words) outlining the student’s interest in pursuing a graduate degree in Communication and Social Justice at the University of Windsor and potential area(s) of research concentration; (iii) a curriculum vitae; (iv) an official transcript of grades attained in all undergraduate courses; (v) two confidential letters of recommendation from post-secondary faculty members most familiar with the students’ work on official forms from the Faculty of Graduate Studies (letters, in addition to the forms, are preferred); (vi) a substantial sample of writing from upper-level undergraduate courses (do not submit papers with grades and/or professors' comments); and (vii) for students whose native language is not English, a minimum score of 620 on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or 7.5 on the IETLS (International English Language Testing System) is required. Only tests administered within two years prior to receipt of the application are valid.
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Completed applications should be received by January 15 of each year. Highly qualified students (minimum 80% GPA overall or equivalent) will be considered for entrance scholarships upon formal admission to the program. Applicants should also refer to the University of Windsor on-line Graduate Calendar (www.uwindsor.ca/graduate) for further requirements, procedures and information.
REGISTRATION
Registration for each semester (fall, winter, summer) is done through the web. All students must maintain continuous registration or receive permission for a leave of absence. Additionally, all students must be registered for a minimum of three semesters. See individual course descriptions for the course codes required to register. N.B. All course codes must be preceded by (02). For example, to register for 40-500, students must enter 02-40-500-01 in order to enroll in the course on-line.
Payment of Tuition Fees
Students are encouraged to consult the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research web page (http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate) for current tuition, fee levels and payment options. Students who are holders of a GA/RA contract may have their tuition, campus residence, and food plan expenses deducted from their pay cheques by completing a Payroll Deferment form available at the Cashier’s Office in Chrysler Hall North at the beginning of each semester. See the Cashier’s website for information http://www.uwindsor.ca/cashiers/payment-options
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
The program is designed to ensure that most graduate courses (with the exception of 40- 518, 40-543 and 40-590) will be offered in each academic year under normal circumstances. The courses coalesce around the theme of ‘Communication and Social Justice.’ While some courses may have a Political Economy orientation and others a Critical Cultural Studies orientation, the overall intent is to bridge these two major approaches to the study of communications in a cohesive and complementary manner.
Students must complete five courses, three of which are required (40-500, 40-501, and 40-502). Additionally, students prepare a major research paper that may evolve from one of the courses; presentation of the major paper defense is open to all faculty and students. Students may be permitted to complete a thesis, upon recommendation by a faculty member and approval of the graduate committee based on a performance evaluation at the end of semester one (see below for more information). Such students must complete four courses, three of which are required (40-500, 40-501, and 40-502).
All M.A. students must maintain an average of 70% or higher. A grade of 67% or less for any course in the Master’s Program normally signifies a failure for that course. Students may elect to repeat any course once if they receive a grade of less than 70%. A
4 June 2016 student with a grade point average of less than 70% for two successive terms will normally be asked to withdraw from the program. The University expects that all researchers will adhere to the proper standards of intellectual honesty in the written or spoken presentation of their work, and will at all times acknowledge in a suitable manner the contribution made by other researchers to their work (Senate Policy on Authorship) Plagiarism is the act of copying, reproducing or paraphrasing significant portions of one’s own work, or someone else's published or unpublished material (from any source, including the internet), without proper acknowledgment, and representing these as new or as one’s own. (Senate Policy on Student Code of Conduct, Section 3 (7). If a student is suspected of plagiarism or any other act of academic misconduct, the matter will be dealt with according to the procedures outlined in Senate Bylaw 31 and its accompanying flowchart. All MA students are required to submit a report detailing their progress through the program on May 31 of each year. The forms must be completed by the student and signed by their supervisor. Forms are distributed through the Graduate Secretary’s office.
GRADUATE COURSES
40-500 PRO-SEMINAR
An introduction to themes of social justice and the common good; media and democratic communication. The course will also facilitate the development of intellectual skills and include an exploration of procedures and requirements relevant to graduate study and intellectual life. Students will produce proposals and literature reviews for their major research paper or thesis projects.
40-501 CRITICAL THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION
A review of critical theories of communication in the context of social justice themes. Key topic areas include theories of commodification, ideology, cultural production and representation, art and politics, communication and democracy, information, and globalization.
40-502 GRADUATE RESEARCH METHODS
This course provides an overview and applications of a range of contemporary research methods in communication studies. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches will be examined in this course, but the course may focus primarily on one or the other type of approach to communication research
40-512 COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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Examines the use of traditional and non-traditional forms of communication that have been used within, and by, a variety of social movements and social formations. The course draws upon a combination of new social movement theory and critical media and cultural studies. Areas of focus will include the following: an assessment of (i) the contribution of new communication technologies to social activism and social movements; (ii) the representations of social movements in the context of political/economic/social change; (iii) the diversity and importance of alternative media as a central component of movements for social justice.
40-514 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNICATION
The course examines the historical roots of critical political economy in relation to media and communication studies and explores contemporary applications of, and current issues in, the political economy of communication. Students will read a series of books and documentary materials which help to bring to light the role played by mass media in power relations and the social construction of reality. The texts will be examined from the perspective of critical political economists (such as Noam Chomsky).
40-515 MEDIA REPRESENTATION Any range of media modes and texts, such as documentary, experimental film, music- video, feature films, television, and the emerging digital formats, may be examined in terms of their aesthetics, poetics, history, and cultural politics. Theoretical approaches to representational analysis and/or audience reception will be presented for critical reflection.
40-520 DIRECTED STUDY
The course is normally reserved for students not writing a thesis. With approval of the Graduate Chair, a student may undertake to write an original paper on a specialized topic that will enhance his or her program of study. The course will involve directed supervision of readings and informal discussion with the student’s course supervisor.
40-543 ADVANCED FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM
Films are explored under the broad rubric of cultural studies; specific theoretical approaches employed to analyze cinema are examined. Case studies of genres as the emergent effective mode of understanding films are taken up. Films selected may belong to the silent or classical period to the contemporary. The readings provide tools to analyze formal aspects and critical interpretative frameworks applied to examine films. Writing assignments forge links between the written and the visual and between theory and film texts. (3 hrs/week: once a month, class will be extended due to in-class film screening.)
40-590 SELECTED TOPICS
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Selected advanced topics in Communication Studies based on special faculty interests and opportunities afforded by the availability of visiting professors. Special topics courses are subject to Graduate Committee approval. (May be repeated for credit provided that the topics differ.) (3 lecture hours a week.)
40-796 MAJOR RESEARCH PAPER (See below for description)
40-797 THESIS (See below for description)
N.B. Students wishing to take a graduate course outside the program require special permission from the Graduate Chair of the MA Program in Communication and Social Justice as well as the instructor of the course. The Faculty of Graduate Studies must be notified in writing if the student intends to take a course outside the program to be counted as part of their degree requirements.
SCHEDULE TO COMPLETE THE PROGRAM
The MA in Communication and Social Justice is designed to be a one-year (three full time semester) program. Students are therefore strongly encouraged to plan accordingly in order to complete all program requirements in that time frame. The following are a few steps that can help students achieve this goal:
(i) Plan to complete all course work over the Fall and Winter semesters. All students are strongly encouraged to register for three courses in the Fall. All students are required to successfully complete 40-500, 40-501 and 40-502.
(ii) Students should finalize their topic by the end of the Fall semester and should have their MRP/thesis committee in place by the end of week 6 of the Winter term.
(iii) Students must be registered for a minimum of three semesters on a full-time basis. Students must be enrolled in 40-796 (major research paper) or 40-797 (thesis) in the semester in which they intend to defend. Registration in 40-796 or 40-797 is considered full-time.
(iv) Students must file a Progress Report on May 31 of each year until they graduate. Progress Report Forms are available on the program’s website.
MAJOR RESEARCH PAPER/PROJECT
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Students will pursue the major research paper/project (MRP) option in order to fulfill the requirements for the Master’s degree; topics should be finalized by the end of the Fall Semester. Generally, the major research paper should be approximately 35-45 (double- spaced) pages in length and shall comprise scholarly research which provides evidence of intellectual rigour and which augments or enhances the reader’s knowledge of the topic investigated. The student may undertake the major research project as part of a course but the final piece of work must be publicly presented at an oral defense. This option requires two departmental committee members.
THESIS
On occasion, students may be permitted to pursue a thesis option only with special permission of the Graduate Committee, a faculty recommendation and based on a performance evaluation at the conclusion of the first semester. Students hoping to complete a thesis are encouraged to (i) successfully complete three courses in the first semester and achieve an 80% overall average; (ii) provide a 250-word rationale explaining the reasons for wishing to undertake a thesis; and (iii) submit a 2-page outline that summarizes the topic (i.e. research question) proposed theoretical/conceptual framework, and methodological approach.
If approved, the student will form a thesis committee consisting of two graduate faculty members from the Department of Communication, Media and Film and one graduate faculty member from an external department (i.e. Sociology, Political Science, etc.). At least two members of the committee must have graduate faculty status.
The thesis option requires the successful defense of a proposal (prior to the work commencing) and a public defense of the final project. The thesis proposal should be approximately 18-20 double-spaced pages (including bibliography) and should succinctly articulate the research question, provide a relevant review of literature and concisely explain the theoretical and methodological approach. The final thesis should be 60-70 (double-spaced) pages in length and shall provide an original contribution to the scholarly literature and evidence of intellectual rigour. For the Thesis option only, Master’s Committee forms must be completed, signed by all committee members, and submitted to the Graduate Secretary’s office. Forms are available from the Faculty of Graduate Studies website or the Graduate Secretary.
PREPARATION/ORAL PRESENTATION OF MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS, THESES, ETC.
Major research papers and theses must be prepared according to the Procedures to Follow in Preparing a Thesis or Dissertation distributed by the Faculty of Graduate Studies (http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate). The thesis/major research paper must follow the style of an established, standardized format (i.e. APA) approved by the thesis supervisor and should use gender neutral language. Format guidelines can be found at: http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate/732/guidelines-major-papers-theses-and-dissertations
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A copy of the completed thesis/major research paper must be submitted to each committee member and to the Graduate Secretary at least eight days before the oral defence. Once the defence copy is submitted, no changes to the document can be made until after the defence takes place. After the successful defence, and after any required revisions are completed, three bound copies of the finalized thesis, one of which must have the original signature page, must be deposited to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in order to graduate. One of the copies will become the property of the Department. M.A. theses/major research papers are graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Information about electronically depositing your thesis can be found at http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate. Students may also opt to submit an abstract of their thesis to the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) after graduation. Please see the following web address for directions on uploading: http://www.acc-cca.ca/
Application for Graduation
Application forms are available on-line. Consult the Faculty of Graduate Studies (http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate) website for deadlines.
Residence Requirements
Each student enrolled in the MA Program must undertake a full program of study for a minimum of one academic year (three full time semesters). Students must register in the summer semester or apply for a special leave of absence. http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate/740/graduate-studies-forms. See the Faculty of Graduate Studies Calendar for official rules governing graduate study, including time limits.
Financial Support
See the graduate calendar for a comprehensive list of funding sources beyond those listed below. Available at http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate
Graduate Assistantships
Financial support in the form of a graduate assistantship (GA) is typically offered to suitably qualified MA students at the beginning of each academic year. Information about the hourly wage for GAs can be obtained from the Graduate Studies website http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate. Students must apply for Graduate Assistantships each semester. http://www.uwindsor.ca/graduate/740/graduate-studies-forms Students must contact the instructor(s) they are assigned to GA for and complete a detailed contract of duties related to the GA hours--Form 1 which is distributed to students by the Graduate Secretary.
The graduate committee awards GAs according to the following priorities/considerations: pool of incoming students; academic standing and teaching needs. GAs may be assigned to conduct tutorials and/or assist individual instructors with course-related duties. All
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GAs are strongly encouraged to attend the campus-wide GA/TA Orientation Workshop held in September. The workshop is designed to familiarize the GA with the general teaching duties and regulations associated with holding an assistantship. The Department of Communication, Media and Film may also require additional training and/or workshop participation.
FACULTY
Our faculty members are actively engaged in a diverse range of research areas. The department is large enough to provide a range of research areas and perspectives yet small enough to provide personalized support.
(Asterisk denotes those members who have graduate faculty and/or affiliated graduate faculty status)
*Asquith, Kyle, Assistant Professor. B.A., York University; M.A., University of Windsor; Ph.D., University of Western Ontario. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: advertising and consumer culture; children’s media culture; media history; political economy of communication; Canadian media policy and regulation.
Boin, Paul, Assistant Professor. B.A., Hartwick College; M.Sc., Springfield College; Ph.D., OISE/University of Toronto Research Interests/Teaching Areas: political economy of communication and media; Internet development and governance; democratic theory and practice; communication and social movements.
*Brown, Brian A., Assistant Professor, Chair – Graduate Program in Communication & Social Justice. B.A., M.A., University of Windsor; Ph.D., University of Western Ontario. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: Web 2.0 and social Media; political economy of user-generated content; photography and digital photography; autonomist Marxism; biopolitics; cultural studies with a particular focus on graffiti/street art.
*Bryant, Susan, Permanent Sessional Lecturer, B.A., M.E.S., York University; Ph.D., Simon Fraser University. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: political economy of new media; gender and technology; social relations of paid/unpaid labour; culture and nature; research methods.
*Darroch, Michael, Associate Professor, B.A., McGill University; M.A., Université De Montréal; Ph.D., McGill University (Cross-appointed Graduate Faculty – SoCA). Research Interests/Teaching Areas: the intersection of media and urban studies, new histories of Canadian media studies, the cross-border urban context of Detroit-Windsor, and artistic and cultural practices in other urban environments. *Engle, Karen, Associate Professor, B.A., Queens University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Alberta, (Cross-appointed Graduate Faculty – SoCA)
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Research Interests/Teaching Areas: The intersections of visual cultures, cultural history, and “theory” with American history and memory.
Hartley, Heather M., Associate Professor B.S. (Allegheny College), MFA Film (Ohio)
Lau, Tony, Permanent Sessional Lecturer, B.A., M.A., University of Windsor; MFA., York University. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: Immigration and cultural studies with emphasis on Asia and the Asian diaspora; technological and artistic implications of social media; cinematography and photography; lighting; production and performance management.
Lewis, Richard, Associate Professor. B.A., Loyola (Montreal); M.S., Ph.D., Syracuse Research Interests/Teaching Areas: multiculturalism and media; television and children; sound recording and post-processing; video (especially music) production; message design theory and instructional technology. *Manzerolle, Vincent, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Western Ontario. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: Political Economy of Media; Media Theory; Cultural/Entertainment Industries; Surveillance Studies; Mobile Media; Search Engines and Data Mining; Consumer Culture; Media Audiences; Data-Enabled Marketing and Advertising; Theories of Innovation and Economic Development; History of Information and Information Systems; Border Infrastructure. *Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, Valerie, Associate Professor and Department Head, Honours B.A., M.A., University of Windsor; Ph.D., York University. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: political economy of media; critical (multi)cultural studies and media representation; critical pedagogy and educational philosophy/theory; advertising and consumer culture; popular culture; contemporary politics and media; Marxist and Critical Theory; social movements; new media.
Stasko, Mike , Assistant Professor. B.A., University of Windsor; Post-Graduate Certificate, Sheridan College; MFA, Columbia University. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: Film and Video Production; Directing; Screenwriting; Producing; Acting; Interactive Media.
Virdi, Jyotika, Associate Professor. B.A., Delhi University; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of Oregon. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: Indian popular, art, and diasporic cinema; gender, cultural, and postcolonial studies; film theory and history.
*Winter, James, Professor. B.J., M.J., Carleton; Ph.D., Syracuse. Research Interests/Teaching Areas: communication, social justice and the common good; political economy of communication; sociology of news and entertainment media; media literacy; alternative media. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS/PRODUCTIONS OF THE GRADUATE FACULTY (last 6 years only)
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Asquith, K. Forthcoming. “Protecting the ‘Guinea Pig Children’: Resisting Children’s Food Advertising in the 1930s.” In Shopping For Change: Consumer Activism in North American History. Eds. J. Tohill and L. Hyman. Toronto: Between the Lines Press.
Asquith, K. 2015. “Classic Campaign: From Consumers of Food to Participants in the ‘Modern’ Consumer Marketplace - How Cream of Wheat Approached Children, 1900-1935.” Advertising & Society Review 16, no. 1. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/advertising_and_society_review/v016/16.1.asquith. html
Asquith, K. 2015. “Knowing the Child Consumer Through Box-tops: Data Collection, Measurement, and Advertising to Children, 1920-1945.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 32, no. 2, pp. 112-127.
Asquith, K. 2014. “Join the Club: Food Advertising, 1930s Children’s Popular Culture, and Brand Socialization.” Popular Communication 12, no. 1, pp. 17-31.
Asquith, K. 2014. “Publicly Funded, Then Locked Away: The Work of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.” In Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online. Eds. R. Coombe, D. Wershler and M. Zeilinger. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 90-99.
Asquith, K. and Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, V. 2012. “Opening the Floodgates: Foreign Ownership, Neoliberal Ideology, and the Threat to Democratic Media Culture.” In Communication in Question 2nd edition. Eds. J. Greenberg and C. Elliott. Toronto: Nelson Education, pp. 41-48.
Asquith, K. and Hearn, A. 2012. “Promotional Prime Time: ‘Advertainment,’ Internal Network Promotion, and the Future of Canadian Television.” Canadian Journal of Communication 37, no. 2, pp. 241-258.
Asquith, K. 2011. “Hypercommercialism and Canadian Children’s Television: The Case of YTV.” In Canadian Television: Text and Context. Eds. M. Bredin, S. Henderson and S. Matheson. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
Asquith, K., Roberts, A. and Robinson, D. 2011. “From Active Young Explorers to Passive Young Consumers: The Commercialization of Canada’s OWL Magazine.” American Review of Canadian Studies 41, no. 3, pp. 198-211.
Brown, B. Forthcoming. The Boom in ‘Broken Windows’: examining the place of digitized street art in post-industrial urban renewal. Architecture_MPS: Architecture, Media, Politics, Society.
Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V., Brown, B., McLaren, P., forthcoming 2016. Marx and the
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Philosophy of Praxis. In Smeyers, P. (Ed). International Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Springer International.
Brown, B. 2015. “Detroit's Bellwether: Picturing London's East End and the Perilous Business of Street Art.” [Photographs & Essay]. Stories of the City. An Exhibition hosted by In-Terminus: Media, Art & Urban Ecologies. Sarah Beveridge Contemporary Art Gallery. Windsor, Ontario, Canada. November 21-24, 2015.
Brown, B. & Quan-Hasse, A. 2015. “‘A Workers' Inquiry 2.0:’ An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts” in Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. C. Fuchs & V. Mosco (Eds.). New York, USA: Brill Publications, pp. 447-481.
Brown, B. A. 2014. ‘Will Work For Free’: the biopolitics of unwaged digital labour. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique. Special Issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorizing Digital Labour & Virtual Work.
Brown, B. A. 2014. The Work of ‘Street Art’ in the Age of Digital Reproducibility. Digital Art & The Urban Environment. Ed. F. Marchese, Springer Publications: New York, NY.
Brown, B. A. 2013. Primitive Digital Accumulation: Privacy, Social Networks and Biopolitical Exploitation. Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 25 (3): 385-403.
Brown, B. A. & Quan Hasse, A. 2012. ‘A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0’: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique Vol. 10 (2): 488-508.
Quan-Haase, A. & Brown, B. A. 2012. Uses and Gratifications Theory. Encyclopedia of Media and Communication. Ed. M. Danesi, University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Ontario.
Bryant, S. 2013. “Children's Culture and the Environment in the Digital Age,” Democratic Communique, 26:1, 2013, pp. 1-16.
Bryant, S. 2013. “It's Not Easy Being Green: The Greenwashing of Environmental Discourses in Advertising” Canadian Journal of Communication, 38:2, 2013, pp. 207-226 (with Jennifer Budinsky).
Darroch, Michael. 2016. “Border Scenes: Detroit Windsor”, Darroch, Michael, in Scene Thinking, Woo, Benjamin Woo; Rennie, Jamie; Poyntz, Stuart R. (eds), (Routledge, 2016) (Submitted)
Darroch, Michael 2016. “Medial Translations and Human Unsettlements: Planetary Urbanisms Planetary Urbanisms from McLuhan to Flusser”, Darroch, Michael, in
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Simon, Sherry, Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life, Sherry Simon (eds), (McGill-Queens University Press, 2016), 29 pp (In Press)
Darroch, Michael. 2016. “Giedion and Explorations: Confluences of Space and Media in Toronto School Theorisation.” Media Transatlantic: Media Theory between Canada and Germany. Norm Friesen, ed. Vienna: Springer. 63-90 pp.
Darroch, Michael 2016. “The Toronto School: Cross-Border Encounters, Intellectual Entanglements”, in The International History of Communication Studies, David W. Park and Peter Simonson (eds), (Routledge, 2016), 276-301 pp
Darroch, Michael. 2015. “Voix synesthésques : multivocalité numérique et langage incorporé dans l’espace théâtral.” Théâtre et Intermédialité. Jean-Marc Larrue, ed. Les Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 170-187 pp.
Darroch, Michael. 2015 “Diversions: In Windsor Looking Out”, in Border Cultures, Srimoyee Mitra (eds), (Black Dog Publishing, 2015), 24-25 pp
Darroch, Michael, “Border Scenes: Detroit/Windsor,” Cultural Studies, 29: 298-325 pp, 2015
Darroch, Michael, “Sigfried Giedion und die Explorations: Die anonyme Geschichte der Medien-Architektur,” Zeitschrift für Mediengeschichte, 144-154 pp, 2014
Darroch, Michael; Marchessault, Janine, 2014 “Introduction: Urban Cartographies”, in Cartographies of Places: Navigating the Urban, Darroch, Michael and Marchessault, Janine (eds), (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014), 3-21 pp.
Darroch, Michael and Janine Marchessault, eds. 2014. Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Culture of Cities Series)
Darroch, Michael; Rodney, Lee. 2014. “Reading Windsor as South Detroit: cross-border legacies and activist connections”, in Uniting Detroiters: Peoples Atlas of Detroit, Campbell, Linda; Newman, Andrew; Safransky, Sara (eds), (Wayne State University Press, 2014), 11 pp (Submitted with Revisions)
Darroch, Michael. 2011. “Language and Media”, in Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks, Straw, Will; Gabriele, Sandra; Wagman, Ira (eds), (Emond Montgomery Publications, 2011), 89-110 pp
Darroch, Michael. 2010. “Language in the City, Language of the City”, in Circulation and the City: Essays on Mobility and Urban Culture, Boutros, Alexandra; Straw, Will (eds), (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010), 23-47 pp
Darroch, Michael; Nelson, Kim, “Windsoria: Border/Screen/Environment,” Public: Arts/Culture/Ideas, 40: 56-65 pp, 2010
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Darroch, Michael; Darroch, Gordon, “Losing Our Census,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 35(4): 609-617 pp, 2010
Darroch, Michael. 2010. “Materiality” and “Feedback Loop.” Mapping Intermediality in Performance, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andrew Lavender, Robin Nelson, (eds), (Amsterdam University Press), 141 and 183-184 pp
Engle, Karen 2015. “The Boondoggle: Lee Miller and the Vicissitudes of Private Archives,” Photographies, 8: 85-104 pp,
Engle, Karen 2013. “Fragments of Desire,” Imaginations, North by West: 2015 (Submitted) 3. Engle, Karen, “Becoming Monument, Activating Windsor,” Societies, 3: 482-490 pp, 2013
Engle, Karen 2012. “Miller's Crossing: War, Surrealism, Photography”, Engle, Karen, in Finn, Jonathan, Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action, Finn, Jonathan (eds), (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 249-261. Manzerolle, Vincent. “There is no snow in Silicon Valley”, Digital Culture and Society. Forthcoming. Co-authored with Andrew Herman and Brett Caraway. Manzerolle, Vincent “App-centric Mobile Media and Commoditization: Implications for the Future of the Open Web”, Mobile Media & Society. Forthcoming. Co- authored with Michael Daubs. Manzerolle, Vincent. 2014. “‘All the World’s a Shopping Cart’: Theorizing the Political Economy of Ubiquitous Media and Markets,” New Media & Society. 2014. Co- authored with Lee McGuigan.
Manzerolle, Vincent 2014. “Digital Media and Capital’s Logic of Acceleration” in C. Fuchs and V. Mosco eds. Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Brill. 2014. Co- authored with Atle Kjosen. Manzerolle, Vincent 2014. “The Rise, Fall and Future of “BlackBerry™ Capitalism” in A. Herman, J. Hadlaw, and T. Swiss eds. The Materialities and Imaginaries of the Mobile Internet. Routledge. 2014. Co-authored with Andrew Herman. Manzerolle, Vincent 2014. “Technologies of Immediacy / Economies of Attention: Notes on the Development of Mobile Media and Wireless Connectivity” in V. Manzerolle and L. McGuigan eds. The Audience Commodity in a Digital Era.
Manzerolle, Vincent 2014. “Dare et Capere: Virtuous Mesh and a Targeting Diagram” in S. Matviyenko and P. D. Miller eds, The Imaginary App. MIT Press. 2014. Co- authored with Atle Kjosen.
Manzerolle, Vincent 2014. The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age. Peter Lang. 2014. Co-edited with Lee McGuigan.
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Manzerolle, Vincent 2012. “The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration” Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Volume 10, Issue 2. 2012. Co-authored with Atle Kjosen. Also translated into Turkish and Chinese.
Manzerolle, Vincent 2011. “Mobilizing the Audience Commodity: Digital Labour in a Wireless World” Ephemera, Volume 10, Issue 3/4. 2011.
Manzerolle, Vincent 2011. “Consumer Databases and the Commercial Mediation of Identity: A Medium Theory Analysis,” Surveillance and Society, special issue on Consumption and Surveillance, Volume 8, Issue 3. 2011. Co-authored with Dr. Sandra Smeltzer.
Manzerolle, Vincent 2010. “The Virtual Debt Factory: Towards an Analysis of Debt and Abstraction in the American Credit Crisis,” Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Special issue on Crisis and Communication, Volume 8, Issue 2. 2010 Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V., Brown, B., McLaren, P., forthcoming 2016. Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis. In Smeyers, P. (Ed). International Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Springer International.
Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Valerie. 2015. "Beyond Discourse Radicalism: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy and the Struggle for Social Justice." In Handbook of Progressive Education. Eds. M. Eryaman and B. Bruce. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 671-696.
Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V. (with P. McLaren), forthcoming 2017. "Class Dismissed? Historical Materialism and the Politics of "Difference." In Pruyn, M. & Huerta- Charles, L. (Eds.) This Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader, vol. 2.
Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, V. (with Kyle Asquith) 2012. “Opening the Floodgates: Foreign Ownership, Neoliberal Ideology, and the Threat to Democratic Media Culture.” In Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies , 2nd Edition. Eds. J. Greenberg and C. Elliott. Toronto: Nelson Education, pp. 41-48.
Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V. 2011. Cold Breezes and Idiot Winds: Patriotic Correctness and the Post-9/11 Assault on Academe. Rotterdam & Boston: Sense Publishers
Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, V. 2010. “Class-ifying Race: The ‘Compassionate’ Racism of the Right and Why Class Still Matters.” In Handbook of Cultural Politics and
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Education. Ed. Z. Leonardo. Boston/Rotterdam/Taipei: Sense Publishers, pp. 113-140.
Virdi, J. 2011. “Nation and its Discontents” from The Cinematic Imagination rpt. in Critical Visions in Film Theory. Eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White and Meta Mazaj. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, p. 958-976.
Virdi, J. 2009. “Ominous Beginnings in Nishant/Night’s End (Shyam Benegal, 1975).” In 24 Frames: Indian Cinema. Ed. Lalitha Gopalan. London, England: Wallflower Press, p. 148-159.
Winter, J. 2016 “Propaganda in a Neoliberal Universe: An Interview With James Winter,” Synaesthasia, SCAC, Spring, 2016, 18-23. With Daniel Broudy. Winter, J. 2015 “Evo Morales and Bolivia: Election Coverage in the Toronto Star,” (With Parma Yarkin) in News From Somewhere: A Reader in Communication and Challenges to Globalization, Daniel Broudy, Jeff Klaehn and James Winter (Eds), WayzGoose Press, Eugene Oregon, Forthcoming, 2015. Winter, J. (Ed.) 2015 News From Somewhere: A Reader in Communication and Challenges to Globalization, (with Daniel Broudy and Jeff Klaehn), Wayzgoose Press, Seattle, June, 2015. Winter, J. 2014 “Toronto Star Coverage and the Politics of Breast Cancer,” Synaesthasia, SCAC, 3:3, Summer, 2014. With Jane McArthur. Winter, J. 2012. “The Myth of Orwell: The Canadian press and its Orwellian use of Eric Arthur Blair,” in Richard Lance Keeble (Ed), Orwell Today, Arima Publishing, Suffolk, U.K. pp 139-150. Winter, J. 2012. “Neo-Liberal Attacks on Labour: A Municipal Worker Strike in a Labour Town,” Synaesthasia, SCAC, 1:4, Fall 2012. With Travis Reitsma and Amanda Wilson. Winter, J. 2011. “Robert Babe, Personal Reflections,” in Edward A. Comor (ed), Media, Structures, and Power: The Robert E. Babe Collection, pp. 417-420. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). Winter, J. 2010. “War as peace: The Canadian Media in Afghanistan.” In Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution. Eds. Richard Lance Keeble, John Tulloch and Florian Zollman. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 287-300.
Winter, J. 2010. “Reporting on the Pharmaceutical Industry: Profit before People.” In The Political-Economy of Media and Power. Ed. Jeffery Klaehn. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 243-272.
RECENT STUDENT MAJOR RESEARCH PAPERS:
(A complete list of major research papers is available from the Graduate Secretary.)
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Romanko, Anne-Marie 2016. A Curriculum in Capitalism: EnRICHed Start as Neoliberal Financial Literacy Education
Alsaadi, Miram 2016. Beauty and the Online World: A Visual and textual Analysis of Personal Branding and the YouTube Beauty Guru
Lilly, Vanessa 2015. Restoring Rehtaeh Parsons’ Rape Narrative-An Analysis of #YouKnowHerName on Twitter
Wang, Shuo 2015. Home and away: representing the Chinese homosexual diaspora in The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Happy Together (1997)
Kim, Jihong 2015. South Korean Cinema in the 21st Century: Reading Park Chan- Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy
Cardin, Melodie 2015. Midwifery in Ontario Hospitals: Negotiating Power, Advocacy and “Alternatives”
Armbruster, Natalie 2015. The corporate co-optation of the "Natural" food label: A case study of Maple Leaf Food's Natural Selections line
Mastrocola, Daniela 2014. The Canadian Seal Wars on CBC News
Nardone, Jaclyn 2014. Beyond The ‘Free Speech Wall’: The 'Conservative Labyrinth' On Canadian Campuses
Murphy, James 2014. Political "Origins" of the London Bills of Mortality
Landry, Andrea 2014. Defenders of the Land: The Canadian Broadcasting Company`s portrayal of Indigenous Struggle
O’Meara, Victoria 2014. “SlutWalk in the News: Women in Protest and the Canadian Mainstream Media”
Krizan Lydia 2013. Intensive Livestock Operations: Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage
Shuraydi, Amny 2013. All-American Muslim: A review of contemporary Arab American identity, double consciousness, and Orientalist perspectives
Harney, Sarah 2013. Occupying The Globe And Mail: The Story Of The 99% As Told By The 1%
O’Brien, Joseph T. 2013. Tattoos In Media Representations: An Examination Of Subcultural Or Figurational Characteristics
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Keown, Mary Katherine 2013. Shooting genocide: documentary photography and the 1994 Rwandan genocide: An exploration of political messaging, the visual representation of pain, and memorialization
Gacesa, Jelena 2013. Mail Order Brides, Prostitutes and Domesticated Housewives: Hollywood Hijacked the Eastern European Woman
Aytimur, Hilal 2012. Reproductions of Theodicy in Hollywood’s mainstream Horror Cinema.
Fowlow, Patrick 2012. Banksization: How Bansky Follows the tenets of Mcdonaldization and Disneyization to create his brand.
Rolfe, Meghan 2012. A Multiperspectival Analysis of Beauty Advertisements in Teen Vogue: Exploring how the “Beauty Ideal” is sold to teens.
Yu, Fengchao 2011. The Egyptian Uprising: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Coverage in the Toronto Star.
Feng, Xue 2011. The picture of Consumerism, Mammonism and Materialism in the life circle of “The Affluent 2ND Generation” in China—Semiotic Analysis of Family”.
Paglione, Joshua 2011. The Commodification of Gay politics: An examination of local media coverage of the Windsor Pride Festival.
Iannaci, Natalie 2011. Medicalizing Anxiety: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Branded Drug Websites
Devin, Alexandria 2010. The Cost of Friendship: The Commodification of User Information on Facebook.
Kotow, Crystal, 2010. Fat- Positivity or Positively Disappointing?: An Examination of the Representation of Women in More To Love.
Freitas, Chris. 2010. Where Do We Go From Here? A Subcultural Analysis of Female- Fronted Goth Metal.
Petgrave, Ramon. 2010. Hip Hop Music and Black America: An Investigation into the Representational Work of Hip Hop Videos.
RECENT STUDENT THESES (last 5 years only):
(A complete list of theses is available from the Graduate Secretary.)
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McArthur, Jane E. 2014 "The Toronto Star and the Politics of Breast Cancer Zhang, Tingting 2013. The Myth of the City Image in Contemporary Chinese Society Cameron, Sheena 2013. Extracting an ounce of truth: mainstream media coverage of Canadian mining neoliberalism Ashford, Karen 2012. “The Globe’s representation of the Armenian genocide and Canada’s acknowledgement.” Reitsma, Travis G. 2012. How the Media View Public-Sector Workers: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a 2009 Municipal Workers’ Strike in Windsor, Ontario Budinsky, Jennifer. 2011. ‘It’s not that easy being Green’: Greenwashing of Environmental Discourses in Advertising Fomutar-Berinyuy, Hermes 2011. Canadian Media Coverage of the U.S. role in the Columbia Conflict
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What scholarships are available to graduate students at the University of Windsor? There are a variety of scholarships available to students who have first class standing (i.e.at least overall 80% Cumulative GPA or above). Scholarships for both Canadian and International students: students entering research-based programs with averages that meet or exceed the equivalent of a Canadian 80% may be considered for an entrance scholarship currently valued at $6,000 per year (Doctoral) and $7,000 per year (Master's). International students may also be eligible for scholarship and bursary support through programs based in or administered through their home country. We recommend that international students investigate potential sources of support prior to making an application to graduate school, noting that, in Ontario, tuition costs for international students are higher than those for Canadians and Canadian permanent residents (landed immigrants). There is no application form for these scholarships. These scholarships are awarded at the time of admission to students who qualify for them and as the Faculty of Graduate Studies budget allows. For additional scholarship opportunities, see Faculty of Graduate
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