Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A place for locative media: A theoretical framework for assessing locative media use in urban environments, Darryl A. Pieber
Mapping the Arab Diaspora: Examining Placelessness and Memory in Arab Art, Shahad Rashid
The E-Writing Experiences of Literary Authors, Kathleen Schreurs
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and its Disruption, Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Finding Your Way: Navigating Online News and Opinions, Charlotte Britten
Law and Abuse: Representations of Intimate Partner Homicide in Law Procedural Dramas, Jaime A. Campbell
Understanding Collaborative Sensemaking for System Design — An Investigation of Musicians' Practice, Nadia Conroy
Creative Management: Disciplining the Neoliberal Worker, Trent Cruz
No hay Sólo un Idioma, No hay Sólo una Voz: A Revisionist History of Chicana/os and Latina/os in Punk, Richard C. Davila
Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities, Lisa Di Valentino
Shifting Temporalities: The Construction of Flexible Subjectivities through Part-time Retail Workers’ Use of Smartphone Technology, Jessica Fanning
Different Approaches for Different Folks, Alexandre Fortier
Becoming Sonic: Ambient Poetics and the Ecology of Listening in Four Militant Sound Investigations, David C. Jackson
Capital's Media: The Physical Conditions of Circulation, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen
On the Internet by Means of Popular Music: The Cases of Grimes and Childish Gambino, Kristopher R. K. Ohlendorf
Alternate Academy: Investigating the Use of Open Educational Resources by Students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Daniel Onaifo
Believing the News: Exploring How Young Canadians Make Decisions About Their News Consumption, Jessica Thom
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Narrative Epic and New Media: The Totalizing Spaces of Postmodernity in The Wire, Batman, and The Legend of Zelda, Luke Arnott
Canada: Multiculturalism, Religion, and Accommodation, Brittainy R. Bonnis
Navigating the Social Landscape: An Exploration of Social Networking Site Usage among Emerging Adults, Kristen Colbeck
Impassioned Objects And Seething Absences: The Olympics In Canada, National Identity and Consumer Culture, Estee Fresco
Contentious information: Accounts of knowledge production, circulation and consumption in transitional Egypt, Ahmad Kamal
Satirical News and Political Subversiveness: A Critical Approach to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Roberto Leclerc
"When [S]He is Working [S]He is Not at Home": Challenging Assumptions About Remote Work, Eric Lohman
Multilingual Information Access: Practices and Perceptions of Bi/multilingual Academic Users, Peggy I. Nzomo
Words to Live By: How Experience Shapes our Information World at Work, Play and in Everyday Life, Angela Pollak
Watching Storytelling: Visual Information in Oral Narratives, James Ripley
Heating Up the Debate: E-cigarettes and Instagram, Stephanie L. Ritter
Limitation to Innovation in the North American Console Video Game Industry 2001-2013: A Critical Analysis, Michael Schmalz
Happiest People Alive: An Analysis of Class and Gender in the Trinidad Carnival, Asha L. St. Bernard
Human-Machinic Assemblages: Technologies, Bodies, and the Recuperation of Social Reproduction in the Crisis Era, Elise D. Thorburn
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Face Value: Beyond the Surface of Brand Philanthropy and the Cultural Production of the M.A.C AIDS Fund, Andrea Benoit
Cultivating Better Brains: Transhumanism and its Critics on the Ethics of Enhancement Via Brain-computer Interfacing, Matthew Devlin
Man Versus Food: An Analysis of 'Dude Food' Television and Public Health, Amy R. Eisner-Levine
Media Literacy and the English as a Second Language Curriculum: A Curricular Critique and Dreams for the Future, Clara R. Madrenas
Fantasizing Disability: Representation of loss and limitation in Popular Television and Film, Jeffrey M. Preston
(Un)Covering Suicide: The Changing Ethical Norms in Canadian Journalism, Gemma Richardson
Young adults reflect on the experience of reading comics in contemporary society: Overcoming the commonplace and recognizing complexity, Lucia Cederia Serantes
Labours Of Love: Affect, Fan Labour, And The Monetization Of Fandom, Jennifer Spence
'What's in a List?' Cultural Techniques, Logistics, Poeisis, Liam Cole Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Distinguishing the 'Vanguard' from the 'Insipid': Exploring the Valorization of Mainstream Popular Music in Online Indie Music Criticism, Charles J. Blazevic
Anonymous: Polemics and Non-identity, Samuel Chiang
Manufacturing Legitimacy: A Critical Theory of Election News Coverage, Gabriel N. Elias
Space, Power and the Public Library: A Multicase Examination of the Public Library as Organization Space, Matthew R. Griffis
The Academic Grind: A Critique of Creative and Collaborative Discourses Between Digital Games Industries and Post-Secondary Education in Canada, Owen R. Livermore
We’re on This Road Together: The Changing Fan/Producer Relationship in Television as Demonstrated by Supernatural, Lisa Macklem
Brave New Wireless World: Mapping the Rise of Ubiquitous Connectivity from Myth to Market, Vincent R. Manzerolle
Knowledge Organization Practices in Everyday Life: Divergent Constructions of Healthy Eating, Jill R. McTavish
Promotional Ubiquitous Musics: New Identities and Emerging Markets in the Digitalizing Music Industry, Leslie Meier
Money, Morals, and Human Rights: Commercial Influences in the Marketing, Branding, and Fundraising of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Danielle Morgan
If I Had a Hammer: An Archeology of Tactical Media From the Hootenanny to the People's Microphone, Henry Adam Svec
Semantics-based Automated Quality Assessment of Depression Treatment Web Documents, Yanjun Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Watching High School: Representing Disempowerment on Teen Drama Television, Sarah M. Baxter
Will Work For Free: Examining the Biopolitics of Unwaged Immaterial Labour, Brian A. Brown
Making Sense of Document Collections with Map-Based Visualizations, Olga Buchel
Social Net-working: Exploring the Political Economy of the Online Social Network Industry, Craig Butosi
A Critical Historical Analysis of the Public Performance Right, Louis J. D'Alton
Watching the games: Critical media literacy and students’ abilities to identify and critique the politics of sports, Raúl J. Feliciano Ortiz
The Invisible Genocide: An Analysis of ABC, CBS, and NBC Television News Coverage of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda., Daniel C. Harvey
It's Complicated: Romantic Breakups and Their Aftermath on Facebook, Veronika A. Lukacs
Keeping Up with the Virtual Joneses: The Practices, Meanings, and Consequences of Consumption in Second Life, Jennifer M. Martin
Intellectual Property and Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation and Ideology, Michael B. McNally
The (m)Health Connection: An Examination of the Promise of Mobile Phones for HIV/AIDS Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa, Trisha M. Phippard
Born Again Hard : Transgender Subjectivity in Paul Chadwick's Concrete, Justin Raymond
Communicating Crimes: Covering Gangs in Contemporary Canadian Journalism, Chris Richardson
Online Social Breast-Working: Representations of Breast Milk Sharing in the 21st Century, Cari L. Rotstein
Because I am Not Here, Selected Second Life-Based Art Case Studies. Subjectivity, Autoempathy and Virtual World Aesthetics, Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez
Day of the Woman?: Feminism & Rape-Revenge Films, Kayley A. Viteo
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
"Aren't They Keen?" Early Children's Food Advertising and the Emergence of the Brand-loyal Child Consumer, Kyle R. Asquith
Immediacy and Aesthetic Remediation in Television and Digital Media: Mass Media’s Challenge to the Democratization of Media Production, Michael S. Daubs
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Information Practices of People Living with Depression: Constructing Credibility and Authority, Tami Oliphant