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  • Special Issue: Materials and Media of Infrastructure

    2021-06-22

    The Canadian Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 2 has now been published. Subscribers now have access to all articles, including the full online volume of CJC 46.2:

    Table of Contents

    Guest Editorial

    Materials and Media of Infrastructure by Aleksandra Kaminska & Rafico Ruiz  143

    ARTICLES

    Hosting Cultures: Placing the Global Data Centre “Industry” by  Patrick Brodie 151–176

    Staking a Claim: Mineral Mining, Prospecting Logics, and Settler Infrastructures by Hannah Tollefson 177–199

    Infrastructure that Sings: Kwawaka'wakw Social Media for Wild Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago  by Shirley Roburn  201–224

    Infrastructure and the Form of Politics by Darin Barney  225–246

    Gaming Extractivisim: Unjust Infrastructures, Cultural Resistance, and the Politics of Play in Elizabeth LaPensee Thunderbird Strike by Jordan Kinder 247–269

    Acoustic Infrastructure: The Sounds and Politics of Emergency Radio Tests in American Broadcasting by Andy Kelleher Stuhl  271–290

    From Labrador to Leipzig: Film and Infrastructures along the Fur Trail  by Rachel Jekanowski 291–314

    Mediating the Tree: Infrastructure of Pulp and Paper Modernity in the Bowater Papers  by Aleksandra Kaminska & Rafico Ruiz 315–343

    The Bridge Spanning Past, Present, and Future: Time Infrastructure by Rob Shields 345–361

    Afterword: Infrastructural Fantasties by Nicole Starosielski 363–368

    PLAYLISTS

    Ghost by Kate Maddalena 369–375

    REVIEWS

    A History of Women Cartoonists. By Mira Falardeau. Erika Chung 377–379

    Managing Media and Digital Organizations. By Eli M. Noam. Maria Borkowski 381–383

    Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies. By Cait McKinney. Nelanthi Hewa 385–387

    Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research. Edited by Matthew L. Smith & Ruhiya Kristine Seward. Amanda Hunter 389–391

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  • The Asper Fellowship in Media

    2021-03-16

    The Asper Fellowship in Media,

    Faculty of Information and Media Studies,

    Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

    The Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) at Western University invites applications for the Asper Fellowship in Media. The role of the Fellow is to promote public discussion of a range of issues related to the nature of Canadian media. In reckoning with ongoing activism and policy responses to racism and inclusion, our current Asper Fellowship emphasizes the intersection of media and racialized groups in Canada and abroad, including Black communities, Indigenous communities, communities of colour and new immigrant communities of colour. We seek applications from scholars and journalists who study or produce media for and about racialized groups in mainstream or independent contexts.

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  • CJC Playlists

    2021-01-27

    We are very pleased to announce our new initiative, CJC Playlists!

    CJC Playlists are curated collections of articles that are drawn from the journal's open access archive. We are inviting scholars to develop playlists around a topic, theme, or keyword of their choosing and to introduce their collection as a constellation of work that speaks in some way to our present moment. We hope to encourage a sense of historicity, inventive new alignments for scholarship and have a little fun in the process.

    You can access our first playlists here (just click on the black arrow to access a track within a playlist):

    Melissa Aronczyk, Promotional Culture

    Rianka Singh, Curating Care

    Please find a full list of our published and forthcoming playlists here!

    If you are interested in curating a playlist, please be in touch with Chris Russill, Editor, Canadian Journal of Communication, at editor@cjc-online.ca 

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  • Special Issue: Politics, Communication, and Alt-Rights Canadian Journal of Communication, Abstract Deadline, June 1, 2021

    2020-11-30

    Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2021

    Over the past few years, new political formations combining populism, neo-fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia, white supremacy, and ultra-nationalism have taken the world by storm. These so-called new alt-right movements are as much about communication and media as they are about politics. Indeed, new communities founded on a shared hatred of liberal democracy, multiculturalism and social justice and equity rely on communication and the capacity to harness digital networked media to unleash new forms of viral propaganda, target individuals, bait public opinion and recruit new members.

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