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Stephanie Dick

Assistant Professor

Stephanie's research and teaching are informed by her background in STS and History of Science, with a focus on computing, mathematics, and artificial intelligence since the Second World War. She is the co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society, which is forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press. Before joining the faculty at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Stephanie was an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows.

In the School of Communication, Stephanie teaches a variety of classes, including CMNS 235: News Media, Public, Democracy, and CMNS 353: Topics in Tech and Society.

Outside of academia, Stephanie enjoys being outdoors and hanging out with her cat, Sally. She also practices Ukrainian pysnaky, a way of using bees wax and vinegar-based dyes to colour eggs in geometrical patterns. Learn more about Stephanie .

Sun-Ha Hong

Assistant Professor

Sun-Ha's research focuses on how the way we think and talk about technologies shape their human and social implications. He draws from research in and around communication and media studies; critical data / algorithm studies; science and technology studies (STS); history of technology; critical theory.

He is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project entitled Personal Truthmaking. It traces the cultural and historical resonances between two different ways in which the idea of 'truth' and 'facts' are being weaponised today: (1) in the politically polarised, platform-amplified practice of 'fact signalling' that demonises the other side as irrational and antimodern; (2) constantly recycled technological futures that encourage us to dream of fully automated luxury objectivity through the power of algorithms and AI.

In the School of Communication, Sun-Ha teaches CMNS 253: Information Technology; CMNS 353: Topics in Tech and Society.

Siyuan Yin

Assistant Professor

Siyuan engages in interdisciplinary scholarship spanning the fields of cultural and media studies, feminist studies, social movements, and political economy. Her research centers on social inequalities and resistance in the process of migration and globalization, and specifically, she explores how media, culture, and technologies have become sites for the production and reproduction of hegemonic power and, at the same time, within which agents, institutions, and communities can thrive and resist amid tension and friction. Siyuan received the 2022 Herbert Schiller Award at IAMCR. Her current projects include migrant workers, labor activism, feminist movements, and gendered popular culture.

In the School of Communication, Siyuan teaches CMNS 311: Topics in Communication and Social Justice, and CMNS 840: Political Economy of Communications.

Stuart Poyntz

Director and Professor

Stuart's work in participatory research has largely involved teenagers in informal learning spaces and art institutes. His research addresses children’s media cultures, theories of public life, social care and urban youth cultures.

Stuart is the Director of the School of Communication, and he teaches as well! He teaches undergraduate courses such as CMNS 327: Media Learning and Social Change and CMNS 221: Media and Popular Cultures. He also teaches graduate courses and supervises both MA and PhD students.

 

Jan Marontate

Associate Director and Professor

Jan Marontate is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. Before she joined the School of Communication in 2006, she held a Canada Research Chair in Technology and Culture at Acadia University in Nova Scotia (1998-2006). Dr. Marontate’s current research focuses on arts networks, cultural heritage institutions, collective memory, changing forms of creative work, technological innovation and trans-disciplinary collaboration. She has served on the board of arts international research groups.