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Expertise: Ethnic media, media representation, media representation of Muslims/the Middle East, multiculturalism policy, political communication
Expertise: Social media, News, Computational journalism, Popular culture, International communication, Disinformation, Digital research methods
Expertise: Communication and cultural policy, communication and sustainable development, communication to mitigate disasters, public warning systems; director, Telematics Research Lab
Expertise: Science, technology & society theory; IT & work; health sector; technology assessment; women & ICTs
Expertise: Political economy of communication; communication and social change; labour and collective organizing in the media and communication industries; autonomist marxism; digital and communicative dimensions of debt; and call centres
Expertise: Blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, social media, big data, technology and communication, internet, health, genomics and health, bioethics, biotechnology and science, social networks, race/racism
Expertise: Indigenous film, television, video, and digital media in Canada; analysis of institutions of media culture; Indigenous VR and AR; Indigenous futurisms and speculative cultural production; Indigenous film festivals
Expertise: Science and Technology studies; History of Science; Mathematics; Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Critical Algorithm Studies; Policing; Labor and Automation; Historical Epistemology
Milena Droumeva
Associate Professor | School Director
T: 778-782-3383
E: mvdroume@sfu.ca / cmnsdir@sfu.ca
Room: K9685
Expertise: Soundscapes, urban design/liveability, gender and media, gender and gaming, sonification
Expertise: Documentary and educational media, media institutions and infrastructures, feminist media studies, cultural theory
Expertise: Digital journalism, digital policies, platform studies, cultural industries, governance, neo-institutionalism, academic cosmopolitanism
Expertise: Game Studies, Fan Studies, Transmedia narratives, Gender and Media, Race and Media, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Philippine Studies
Expertise: Environmental and energy issue, activist and advocacy communication, political communication, advertising and consumer culture, critical theories of culture
Expertise: Decolonization, cultural studies, global communication, media studies, pedagogy, activism and advocacy communication, critical journalism studies, Middle Eastern and African studies, diasporic arts and cultural production, film studies and production, podcasting
Expertise: Multimodal composition and analysis; mediated dialogue; metadata and communication design; situated pedagogical design
Expertise: Globalization, transnational culture, Asian media and culture, online game and broadband, political economy of media, telecommunications
Expertise: Applied communication for social issues, media and popular culture, communication and media for public engagement and social change, media advocacy, media education and digital culture, pedagogy and educational futures
Expertise: Cultural and creative organizations, software studies, digital infrastructure, co-creative work, new media
Expertise: Internet, Social Media, Television, Cinema
Expertise: Cultural heritage, art worlds, cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary technical communication networks, preservation of new media, cultural labour and institutions, international cultural policy, cultural sociology and critical ethnography
Expertise: Political economy of information, information and cyberwar, media and environment, infrastructure studies, posthumanism, STS, cybernetics, psychoanalysis, Soviet techno-politics, nuclear cultures, Chernobyl
Expertise: Visual culture, cultural memory, political violence, photography, memorials, multi-media art, interviews, field work, Asylum and displaced populations, Japanese/Asian Canadian cultural studies
Expertise: Health studies, film studies, history & theory of communication, privacy & technology, advertising & consumer culture
Expertise: Sexuality studies, media history, queer theory, activist media
Jas Morgan
Assistant Professor
E: jas_morgan@sfu.ca
Room: K9654
Expertise: Kinship, futures, Indigenous Internet, digital publishing, cultural heritage, Indigenous policy, and Trans thought
Expertise: Media and technology, media literacy and analysis, social impacts of media use , social impacts of technological developments, aesthetic design in media production
Expertise: Digital media, youth, public sphere, children and media culture
Expertise: Citizen or community data; Platform economy; Platform business models; Policy for the digital economy; Data policy regimes; Citizen data audits
Expertise: Information technology, internet, videogames, surveillance, mobility and society
Expertise: Black Popular Cultural Studies; Queer & Transgender Media Studies; Media Representation; Community-Based Participatory Research; Black Feminisms
Expertise: Cultural studies, feminisms, migrant labor, social movements, alternative media, global digital media, political economy of communication
Erique Zhang
Assistant Professor
T: 778.782.4468
E: erique_zhang@sfu.ca
Room: K9652
Expertise: Fashion and beauty studies, queer of color critique, queer and transgender theory, Asian American studies, feminist media studies, social media influencers, popular media, art and visual culture
Adjunct Faculty
Davina Bhandar
Adjunct Professor
E: dbhandar@sfu.ca
Expertise: Critical race studies, material cultures, abolitionist politics, securitization and borders, South Asian diaspora/Canadian cultural studies, citizenship studies, and contemporary political theory
Nancy Duxbury
Adjunct Professor
E: nancy_duxbury@sfu.ca
Expertise: Cultural mapping, culture and local sustainable development, culture-based and creative work in non-urban areas, creative tourism as a catalyst for local development, local cultural policy, participatory governance, and planning approaches in culture
Postdoctoral Fellows
Term Lecturers and Sessional Instructors 2023 - 2024
Darren Fleet
Byron Hauck
Hoornaz Keshavarzian
Nawal Musleh-Motut
Alicia Massie
Jennesia Pedri
