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Public Lecture: The Cinema Of Environmental Crisis
No full text(Posted on behalf of Dr. Anil Narine)
There will be a public lecture about the implications of Eco-Trauma Cinema on Thursday, 29 Oct 2015, starting at 7:00 pm at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St. The event is co-presented by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Please see the full text for details
Recap of Creating Safe Community Spaces: A Campus Forum
Get PDFOn Wednesday, October 29th, 2014, graduate students in the School of Communication held their first campus community forum and workshop in the Halpern Centre. Titled “Creating Safe Community Spaces: Appropriate Conduct in the Universityâ€, the event was organized by MA students Madison Trusolino and Pippa Adams as well as PhD students Bob Neubauer and Maggie MacAulay. It was also made possible by the strong moral and financial support of our Graduate Caucus and other campus groups
Telling the Fracking Truth: A Pentadic Analysis on the Rhetoric of the LNG Expansion in British Columbia
Get PDFThis paper presents an exploratory study that investigates the latent motives in the public reasoning and rhetoric of hydraulic fracturing expansion offered by the current government of British Columbia. A pentadic analysis was conducted on a policy strategy report titled British Columbia’s Natural Gas Strategy. The results of the analysis demonstrate how rhetorical devices are applied for legitimizing the exploitation of the natural gas resources in BC
MA Defence: “Shaping The Genohype: A Cautionary Tale of Overpromise†by Stephan Struve
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Stephan Struve, will defend his MA thesis on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 2200 (10:00 am -12:00 pm). Here is the abstract of his thesis “Shaping the Genohype: A Cautionary Tale of Overpromise”
Public Event: What's Canadian about International Development? An Election Year Conversation
No full text(Post on behalf of Prof. Katherine Reilly) In celebration of the 25th year of International Development Week, two academic events will be hosted in the first week of February at SFU Harbour Center. On February 5th at 5:00-7:00pm (Room: HC 1400-1430), There will be a panel discussion on "What’s Canadian about International Development? An Election Year Conversation". Please see the attached event posters for details
MA Defence: “Memory is a River: Imbert Orchard and the Sound of Time and Place†By Nathan Clarkson
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Nathan Clarkson, will defend her MA Thesis on April 14th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1530. Here is the abstract of his thesis “Memory is a River”: Imbert Orchard and the Sound of Time and Place”
Paradigms of the Religious Network Society
Get PDFBeginning in the early 1970’s with the invention of the microprocessor, mass use of information technologies worldwide coincided with the appearance of a nodally-linked network of digital interconnectivity, or ‘network society’ (Castells, 1996). The network society’s exponential growth correlates with a rise in use of digital networking media by various sects and denominations of the Christian religion. Today, growing numbers of Christian organizations integrate digital media into both their approach to worship and the dissemination of the Holy Scriptures. This paper argues that the use of digital media by these organizations is indicative of the creation of a “religious network society†exhibiting identical structural paradigms to Castells’ (1996) network society. By virtue of the media deployed within it, the ‘religious network society’ fosters a mass culture of digital participation characterized by a rapid fragmentation of religious messaging and an over-sharing of personal religious beliefs. However, the religious network society also erodes Christianity’s hierarchical structures of authority (Turner, 2007). It is argued that these structures are being replaced with a banal form of religion emphasizing spirituality and individual self-expression at the expense of tradition (Campbell, 2012; Hjarvard, 2013). Moreover, purpose alterations to Christianity’s authority structures and approach to worship are indicative of a much larger shift in the religion, in which rising digital media use may in fact imply a decline in Christianity’s societal influence
MA Defence: “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Canadian Mining Sector: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Economy†By Heidi Wudrick
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Heidi Wudrick, will defend her MA Thesis on April 10th, 2015 at Harbour Cen-tre, Room 1530. Here is the abstract of her thesis “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Canadian Mining Sector: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Economy”
Year-End Student Presentations - M.A. Double Degree Program in Global Communication
No full textThe 2nd cohort of M.A. Double Degree Program in Global Communication are finishing their first year at SFU and will soon start the second year of study in Beijing. Prior to the departure, the students will present their capstone projects completed at SFU. As part of the event, Dr. Yu Hong from School of Communication at USC Annenberg will give a guest lecture. The topic of her speech is "Networking the nation: communication and economic restructuring in China". The event will be hosted on August 7, Friday (9:00am to 4:00pm) at Harbour Centre, Room 7000
PHD Defence: “Now Playing, You: Big Data and the Production of Music Streaming Space†by Robert Prey
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Robert Prey, will defend his PhD dissertation on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (10:30 am -1:30 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Now Playing, You: Big Data and the Production of Music Streaming Space”