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Graduate Faculty

Associate Professor. B.A., York University; M.A., University of Windsor; Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

Research Interests/Teaching Areas: advertising and consumer culture; children’s media culture; media history; political economy of communication; Canadian media policy and regulation.

More on Dr. Kyle Asquith

Associate Professor. B.A., M.A., University of Windsor; Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

Research/Teaching Interests: Web 2.0 and social Media; political economy of user-generated content;  photography and digital photography; autonomist Marxism; biopolitics; cultural studies with a particular focus on graffiti/street art.

Associate Professor, B.A., Queens University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Alberta, (Cross-appointed Graduate Faculty – SoCA)

Research Interests/Teaching Areas: The intersections of visual cultures, cultural history, and “theory” with American history and memory.

Associate Professor. B.A. Univ. of Windsor, M.A., Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

Research Interests/Teaching Areas: mobile and ubiquitous media; media theory; political economy of media; media audiences; data-enabled marketing and advertising; entertainment & cultural industries; sociology of technology; history of information and information systems; surveillance studies; consumer culture; regional innovation strategies.

More on Dr. Vincent Manzerolle

Associate Professor. B.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; M.A., York University; Ph.D., Goldsmiths College, University of London (Cross-appointed Graduate Faculty – SoCA)

Area of Expertise:

 Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Film

Associate Professor. B.A., M.A., Univ. of Windsor; Ph.D., York University

Research Interests/Teaching Areas: political economy of media; critical (multi)cultural studies and media representation; critical pedagogy and educational philosophy/theory; advertising and consumer culture; popular culture; Marxist and Critical Theory; social movements; new media 

More on Dr. Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale

Associate Professor. B.A., University of Windsor; Post-Graduate  Certificate, Sheridan College; M.F.A., Columbia University.

Research Interests/Teaching Areas: Film and Video Production; Directing; Screenwriting; Producing; Acting; Interactive Media.

More on Prof. Michael Stasko

Associate Professor. B.A., Delhi University; M.A., Cornell; Ph.D., University of Oregon

Research Interests/Teaching Areas: Indian popular, art, and diasporic cinema; gender, cultural, and postcolonial studies; film history.

More on Dr. Jyotika Virdi


 

Graduate Faculty Publications: (last 5 years only)


Asquith, K. (in press). How the advertising industry approaches legal cannabis: A trade press analysis. In E. West & M. P. McAllister (Eds.), The Routledge companion to advertising and promotional culture (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

Asquith, K. (2021). The visual clichés of cannabis promotion on social media. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(4), 336–349.  

Asquith, K. (2021). Branding cannabis in Canada: Challenges for the Cannabis Act’s promotion restrictions. Canadian Journal of Communication, 46(1), 79–98.

Asquith, K., & Fraser, E. M. (2020). A critical analysis of attempts to regulate native advertising and influencer marketing. International Journal of Communication, 14, 5729–5749.

Asquith, K. (2018). (Ed.). Advertising, consumer culture, and Canadian society: A reader. Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada.

Asquith, K. (2018). Influencer marketing, the commercial forces of social media celebrity, and challenges for Canadian advertising regulation. In K. Asquith (Ed.), Advertising, consumer culture, and Canadian society: A reader (pp. 207–224). Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press Canada.

Leiss, W., Kline, S., Jhally, S., Botterill, J., & Asquith, K. (2018). Social communication in advertising (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

Brown, Brian. (forthcoming). The Boom in ‘Broken Windows’: Examining the place of digitized street art in post-industrial urban renewal. Architecture_MPS: Architecture, Media, Politics, Society.

Taylor, J., Bryant, S., and Brown, B. (2021). See me! Recognize me! An analysis of transgender media representation.”  Communication Quarterly, 69(2), 172-191.

Bryant, S. (2018).  The mediated experiences of our everyday/everynight lives. In Manzerolle, V. and Daubs, M. (Eds.), From here to ubiquity: Critical and international perspectives on mobile and ubiquitous media, (pp. 201-218).  New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 

Taylor, J., Bryant, S., and Brown, B. (2021). See me! Recognize me! An analysis of transgender media representation.”  Communication Quarterly, 69(2), 172-191.

Engle, K. (in press). Chronic Conditions. McGill-Queen's University Press. 

Campbell, Craig, K. Engle and Y.S. Wong, (Eds). (2021). Structures of Anticipation: A Workshop. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 12 (1). [online] 

Darroch, M., K. Engle and L. Rodney. (Eds.). (2020). Sensing borders/sessentir les frontiers. Intermédialités: Histoire et Théorie des art, des lettres et des techniques/Intermedialities: History and Theory of the Arts, Literature and Technologies, 34. 

Manzerolle, V., and Daubs, M. (f2018) “Mobile Transactional Cultures.” In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2nd). New York: Routledge. 

Manzerolle, V. (forthcoming) “Modes of connectivity: On money, markets, and media.” In A. L. Gregersen, E. I. Otto, M. A. Pedersen, A. M. Thorhauge, and J. Ørmen (Eds.), Provincializing the Platform: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets. 

Manzerolle, V. (forthcoming) Ubiquitous connectivity and virtual workplace: Everything, Everywhere, All the Time. New York: Routledge.

Manzerolle, V. (2024)  Border media: Contributions to a non-linear history of the Detroit River.” In D. Stirrup and J. Orr (Eds.), Line Dancing: Theorizing the Canada-U.S. Border. University of Edinburgh Press.

Manzerolle, V. (forthcoming). “The brain center beneath the interface: Grounding human-machine communication in infrastructure, information, and labour.” In R. Guzman, R. McEwen, & S. Jones (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Human-Machine Communication.  New York: Sage Publications.

Chapdelaine, P., Manzerolle, V., Darroch, M., & Morais, P. (2021). Media and communication theory and the regulation of the networked society [Special Issue]. Laws, 10(2).

Manzerolle, V., & Daubs, M. (2021). Friction-free authenticity: Mobile social networking and transactional affordances,” Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0163443721999953.

Meier, L., & Manzerolle, V.  (2019). Rising tides? Data capture, capital accumulation and new monopolies in the digital music economy,” New Media & Society, 21(3), 543-561.

Manzerolle, V. (2018). “Mobilizing the audience commodity 2.0: Digital labour and always-on media. In J. Yao & V. Mosco (Eds.), Media and digital labour: Western perspectives. Peterborough, Ontario: The Commercial Press.

Daubs, M., & Manzerolle, V. (Eds.) (2018). Mobile and ubiquitous media: Critical and international perspectives. New York: Peter Lang.

Manzerolle, V. (2018). Always on, always connected: Designing, branding, and marketing the Blackberry, 1997-2017. In K. Asquith (Ed.), Advertising, consumer culture & Canadian society: A reader, (pp. Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada.

Rodney, L. (2021). “Sight and site on the line: the cultural imaginary of borderlands in North America.” In Victor Konrad and Melissa Kelly (eds.), Borders in globalization: culture, BiG Books series. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 

Rodney, L., Darroch, M., Engle, K. (Eds.) (2020) “Sensing borders/ressentir les frontières,” Intérmedialités 34(12). 

Rodney, L. (2019). “Sites of dissensus: Sensing borders and affective states.” In Jean-Jacques Chardin (Ed.), Borders and spaces in the English-speaking world, RANAM: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines, no. 52.

Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, V. (forthcoming). Marx, Freire and Decolonization. In R. Hall, I. Accioly and K. Szadkowski (Eds.). International Handbook of Marxism and Education. London, U.K.: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, V. ( 2022). Political correctness: The right’s favourite bugaboo. In J. Petley and J. Steel (Eds.). Routledge companion to censorship and freedom of expression.  New York & London: Routledge.

Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V. (2021). The manufactured "free speech" crisis. Critical Education, 12(8), pp. 1-25.

McLaren, P., Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V. (2020.) Class dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of 'difference.' In M. Pruyn, C. Malott and L. Huerta-Charles (Eds.), Tracks to infinity, the long road to justice: The Peter McLaren reader, vol. 2, pp. 197-216. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.

Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V. (2019).  The 'culture wars' reloaded:  Trump, anti-political correctness and the right's 'free speech' hypocrisy. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 17(1), pp. 69-119.

Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, V., McLaren, P., Monzo, L. (2018).  The complexity of Spivak's project: A marxist interpretation. Qualitative Research Journal, 18(2), pp. 144-156.

Stasko, M. (Producer, Director, Writer). (2024). Vampire Zombies…from Space! [Film]. The Dot Film Company. 

Stasko, M. (Producer). (Forthcoming). The Lion Behind Him [Film]. Serendipity Media, Suede Productions. 

Stasko, M. (Producer, Director, Writer). (Forthcoming). Kids on the Job [TV series]. Studio A Films.

Stasko, M. (Producer, Director). (2018-2022). Reel Shorts: Windsor [TV series 5 seasons]. CBC. 

Stasko, M. (Producer, Director, Writer, Editor). (2019-2021). Boys vs. Girls [Film]. Mongrel Media, Gravitas Ventures.

Stasko, M. (Producer, Executive Producer). (2021). Windsor/Essex Showcase [TV series]. CFTV.

Stasko, M. (Producer, Director, Writer). (2018-2020). Windsor Shorts [TV series]. CBC.

Stasko, M. (Producer, Director, Writer). (April 14, 2019). Therapeutic Riding [TV series episode]. Land and Sea, CBC.

Stasko, M. (Producer, Director, Writer, Editor). (2018-2020). The Control [Film]. Freestyle Digital Media.

Virdi, J.  2019. Experiments in state incarceration: An undeclared emergency (Introduction to Indian Cinema, Special Section), Jump Cut 59.