Our faculty members, students and alumni publish and produce an extensive array of work across the fields of journalism, writing, and media.
Louis Maraj | Journal
Special Issue: Heeding the Call: Insurgent Creativity, Eternal Stories, and Extending the Legacy of Critical Race Theory by Aja Y. Martinez and Louis M. Maraj
Louis Maraj | Journal
Editor's Introduction by Aja Y. Martinez and Louis M. Maraj
Louis Maraj | Journal
The Race Traders by Louis M. Maraj
Ori Tenenboim | Journal
Under-the-radar engagement: how and why news users limit their public expression by Ori Tenenboim
Drawing on privacy calculus theory and literature about engagement, avoidance, and relationship management, this study examines—through 50 in-depth interviews in Canada—how and why news users limit their news engagement visibility.
Alfred Hermida | Report
Divergent paths for journalism's future with AI by Alfred Hermida
The theories of AI as a substituting force or complementary force in the labor market provide a way to chart the choices ahead.
Alexis McGee | Book Chapter
Gut Feelings: Black Feminist Reverberations of Intuitive Theory by Alexis McGee
Dr. McGee examines Black feminist meaning-making processes informed by "gut feelings." Since intuition is often represented, but rarely explained, she locates Black women's "gut feelings" in the body as a way of theorizing emotions like in/security.
Jennifer Gagnon | Journal
Accessible Care: The Human Rights Case for Take-Home Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment by Kaitlyn Jaffe, Jennifer Gagnon, et. al.
This is the first study to address the intersection of iOAT delivery and disability experiences, especially through the lenses of disability rights and human rights.
Mary Lynn Young | Report
The questions facing journalism in these turbulent times by Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young
Presents the outcomes of discussion and debate from the ICA Post-conference News Industries: Funding Innovations and Futures, 24–25 June 2024, Gold Coast, Australia.
Jennifer Cowe | Book Chapter
“Destruam et ædificabo”: Personal and Historical Suffering within the Nostalgic Redemptive Narrative in John Banville’s The Untouchable by Jennifer Cowe
Mary Lynn Young | Journal
People, Power, Platforms and the Business of Journalism by Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida
This introduction to a special issue marks a growing complexity and complicatedness in research on the business of digital journalism.
Mary Lynn Young | Journal
Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism? by Mary Lynn young and Alfred Hermida
This article makes a case for the value of infrastructure studies in analyzing journalism’s evolving landscape.
Alfred Hermida
From automata to algorithms: A jobs-to-be-done approach to AI in journalism by Alfred Hermida
Alfred Hermida discusses how AI can best serve the needs of communities and media organizations.
Louis Maraj | Journal
Not/Too/Deep: T(h)inking Archipelagic Rhetorical Blackness by Louis M. Maraj
This thought-project brings to bear on the rhetorical (1) notions of the ecological useful to analyzing anti/Blackness in theoretical Black studies alongside (2) the performativity of relational Black(ened) Caribbean diasporic poetics.
Mary Lynn Young | Book Chapter
Canada: A Challenged Media Ecosystem by Beth Rochester, Alfred Hermida, and Mary-Lynn Young
Ori Tenenboim | Journal
Platform paradoxes and public service media legitimacy: a cross-national study by R.K. Olsen, Ori Tenenboim, et. al.
The article examines how public service media organizations position themselves in relation to social media platforms in six countries (including Canada) over time.
Alfred Hermida | Book Chapter
Preface by Alfred Hermida
Alfred Hermida | Book Chapter
Inteligencia artificial para la relación con las audiencias: el sistema de recomendación Sophi by Sonia Parratt Fernández and Alfred Hermida.
Kimberly Skye Richards | Book Chapter
Critical Journalism, Creative Activism, and a Pedagogy of Discomfort by Kimberly Skye Richards
Kirby Manià | Journal
Reciprocity in Community-Engaged Learning: A Case Study of an Undergraduate Knowledge Exchange Project in an Over-Researched Urban Community by Evan Mauro, Kirby Manià, et. al.
This paper describes key discoveries and lessons learned about the practice of reciprocity in community-engaged learning (CEL).
Louis Maraj | Book Chapter
Gaming the System: Assessing Basic Writing with Black Male Student-Athletes by Louis M. Maraj
Dr. Maraj demonstrates how quantitative assessment and sport statistics work in concert in historically White universities to force Black being into a value system, which rehearses transatlantic slavery logics.
Ori Tenenboim | Journal
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains, co-edited by Ori Tenenboim
A special issue of Digital Journalism featuring research from various national contexts, including the U.S., U.K., Germany, India, China, Chile, Spain, and Italy.
Alexis McGee | Podcast
Beyoncé Went Country & The Gatekeepers Went Wild by Alexis McGee
In this podcast Dr. McGee discusses why so many people are upset that Beyoncé chose country music for her latest album "Cowboy Carter".
Alexis McGee | Journal
Toward a Black Rhetoric of Voicing by Alexis McGee
This article argues for repositioning voice within BIPOC histories and contributions to the fields of English/rhetoric/composition studies.
Alexis McGee | Podcast
Beyoncé's evolution in 'Cowboy Carter' by Alexis McGee
In this podcast Dr. McGee analyzes the evolution of Beyoncé's voice.
Mary Lynn Young | Report
Novel Directions in Media Innovation and Funding by Mary Lynn Young, Alfred Hermida, and Camila Castaneda
Capturing the research and perspectives of leading journalists and scholars, the report focuses on funding directions and innovation practices in journalism.
Katja Thieme | Journal
From language to algorithm: trans and non-binary identities in research on facial and gender recognition by Katja Thieme, Mary Ann S. Saunders, and Laila Ferreira
Assesses the state of thinking about gender identities in computer vision through an analysis of how research papers in gender and facial recognition are designed, what claims they make about trans and non-binary people, what values they espouse, and
Alfred Hermida | Journal
Jobs-to-Be-Done and Journalism Innovation by Seth C. Lewis, Alfred Hermida, and Samantha Lorenzo
Alfred Hermida | Journal
Google’s Influence on Global Business Models in Journalism: An Analysis of Its Innovation Challenge by Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young
Alexis McGee | Book
From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics by Alexis McGee
Kamal Al-Solaylee | Radio
Murder, Madness and Marriage: The Sensational World of Wilkie Collins by Kamal Al-Solaylee
Kamal Al-Solaylee | Radio
The Many Afterlives of the Queen of Sheba by Kamal Al-Solaylee
Katja Thieme | Journal
Expressive Freedom and Ethical Responsibility at Canadian Universities by Katja Thieme
Katja Thieme | Journal
First-Year International Students and the Language of Indigenous Studies by Katja Thieme & Jennifer Walsh Marr
Stephen Dadugblor | Journal
Stories and/as Civic Pedagogies: Toward Participatory Knowledge-Making in Cultural Rhetorics by Stephen Kwame Dadugblor
Louis Maraj | Journal
“Quite here you reach” T(h)inking Language, Place, Extraction with Brand’s Land to Light on by Lou M Maraj
Kimberly Skye Richards | Journal
Welcome to the Department of Utopian Arts and Letters by Ian Garrett and Kimberly Skye Richards
Kimberly Skye Richards | Journal
Staying with More of the Trouble: Arts and Climate, Again and Always by Kimberly Skye Richards
Louis Maraj | Journal
Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (:) the business of naming by Lou M Maraj
Stephen Dadugblor | Journal
Genres in the Public Domain: Genre Uptakes, Responses, and Responsibility by Stephen Kwame Dadugblor
Alfred Hermida | Journal
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram by Claudia Mellado and Alfred Hermida
Ori Tenenboim | Journal
Comments, Shares, or Likes: What Makes News Posts Engaging in Different Ways by Ori Tenenboim
Ori Tenenboim | Journal
Media Production Logics in Triple-Party News-Spaces: A Five-Dimensional Framework by Ori Tenenboim
Jennifer Cowe | Journal
Past Perfect(ed): Future Nostalgia and the Fight Against Trump’s America in Netflix’s Hollywood by Jennifer Cowe
Mary Lynn Young | Book Chapter
The university as a ‘giant newsroom’: Not-for-profit explanatory journalism during COVID-19 by Alfred Hermida, Lisa Varano & Mary Lynn Young
Louis Maraj | Journal
Talking Through Reality/TV: Black/Feminist Viewing Party Pedagogies by Louis M. Maraj Ph.D.
Louis Maraj | Journal
Black in Time: How #BlackLivesMatter Reorients the Human by Louis M. Maraj Ph.D.
Ori Tenenboim | Other
Online Political Comments: Americans Talk About the Election Through a “Horse-Race” Lens by Gina Masullo, Ori Tenenboim et. al.
Ori Tenenboim | Journal
“Toxic atmosphere effect”: Uncivil online comments cue negative audience perceptions of news outlet credibility by Gina M. Masullo, Ori Tenenboim, and Shuning Lu
Article argues that exposure to incivility can lead people to perceive a news outlet as less credible even though the incivility did not directly attack the news outlet.