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Featured Researcher

Sarah Smith, Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations

FIMS Associate Professor Sarah Smith's research focuses on cultural diplomacy: how visual art is used by states and other actors to advance relationships in the international arena.

Featured Research

Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies
Starling Center
Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador
Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador
Museum of Dreams
Museum of Dreams

 

NACDI
NACDI
The Impact Project
The Impact Project
Data Justice
Data Justice Lab

 

Big Data at the Margins
Big Data at the Margins
Community Engaged Learning
Community Engaged Learning & Well-Being
Murder in Our Midst
Murder in Our Midst

More Scholarly Work by Faculty

Below is a list of selected books written by Media Studies faculty.

An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed  Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America  Organizing Equality: Dispatches from a Global Struggle  Data Justice (First Edition)

 

Murder in Our Midst: Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an Age of Globalized News  Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975  Gorgeous War: The Branding War Between the Third Reich and the United States  Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought

For other lectures and videos available from FIMS, visit the Western YouTube FIMS playlist.

Select lectures:

Three Faces of Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties between Gender, Race, and Class

February 12, 2025
Featuring Professor Nancy Fraser, Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at The New School for Social Research (New York).

Part of the 2023-2025 Rogers Chair lecture series. Organized by James Compton.

Watch online

 

Reporting in a House of Mirrors

March 13, 2024
Featuring Justin Ling, investigative reporter

Part of the 2023-2025 Rogers Chair lecture series. Organized by James Compton

Watch online

 

Hacking Online Virality

March 1, 2023
Featuring Filippo Menczer, Observatory on Social Media, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Part of the Rogers Chair lecture series 2021-2023. Organized by Anabel Quan-Haase.

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Digital Piece Work: The New Workers and Geographies of the Digital Economy

March 25, 2021
Featuring Lilly Irani (UC, San Diego), Greig De Peuter (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)

Part of the Big Data at the Margins series. Organized by Alison Hearn, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Tom Streeter, Alissa Centivany, Joanna Redden and Luke Stark.

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More information can be found about media studies faculty and their scholarly work and activities on their personal online profiles.

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