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» Government Imposition of Sustainable Business Practices in the Arts: A Saving Grace?
17-05-2010
· The paper examines how the Alberta Foundation for the Arts has prioritized economic measures of sustainability and best business practices by including economic language and demands into arts...
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» Don't 'Axe' Don't Tell: A Critical Commentary on Axe's 'Chocolate Man'
17-05-2010
· What’s behind the success of Unilever’s line of Axe toiletries for men? It’s not a secret ingredient for concocting sprays with “woodsy overtones” and “oriental spice” – Axe is...
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» On the Production and Maintenance of Discursive Power: Cultural Policy Beyond the Nation-State
15-04-2008
· Contrary to current academic thinking, I argue that cultural policy is not in decline but has simply changed form. The ubiquity and vitality of such policies have been obscured from our vision...
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» Looking Beneath the Skin: Reconfiguring Trauma and Sexuality
15-04-2008
· Since the New Queer Cinema explosion, the style and content of Gregg Araki’s films have changed in seemingly drastic ways. However, my paper argues that his films, although more mature, are just...
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» Virtual Identity: Applying Narrative Theory to Online Character Development
15-04-2008
· This paper will explore the realm of virtual identity within the context of the online virtual world, Second Life. The creation of virtual identities involves the complex process of constructing an...
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» Racial Ideology and Discourse in the NBA: Ron Artest and the Construction of Black Bodies by White America
15-04-2008
· This paper examines white spectatorship of the black athlete’s body through an analysis of NBA basketball player Ron Artest’s 2004 suspension. In examining the discourse surrounding the event,...
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» The Urban Square: Remediating Public Space
15-04-2008
· Emerging technologies challenge the conceptualization of contemporary urban public space – both in where it is located and of what it consists. With the advent of the digital medium and the...
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» Does Rotten Tomatoes Spoil Users? Examining Whether Social Media Features Foster Participatory Culture
12-02-2009
· Participatory culture, as conceived by Henry Jenkins, existed prior to the advent of the World Wide Web. Now, due to the increasing popularity of social media tools, participatory culture is...
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» Bringing Peace to Practice? The Need to Consider Journalism Practice When Reforming Aboriginal Media Coverage in Canada
» “I Started out as a Social Constructionist”: A Conversation with Myra J. Hird, Part 1
» Social Movement Phenomena and the Emergence of Communities of Becoming
12-02-2009
· This paper will provide an overview of several noted social movement theories. This will be followed by an examination of the legacy of Habermas’s public sphere and Castells’s network theory. I...
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» (Bio)Power to the People? Harnessing Potential in the Creative and Cultural Workplace
12-02-2009
· By now, glamourous accounts of work in creative and new media industries are common: foosball tables, kitchens stocked with junk food, on-site laundry services, and office complexes that seem more...
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» The Line Between Methodology and Praxis
23-11-2009
· I would like to begin by disclosing that the overall purpose I have ventured to extend in the writing of my report has been to address the question: How do we, as researchers, as scholars, as...
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» Introducing "Surveylady": A Case for the Use of Avatars as Part of Gaming Research
23-11-2009
· The popularity explosion of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMOs) such as World of Warcraft provides researchers with a venue to reach a wider research subject base than ever...
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» Subculture Theory and the Fetishism of Style
23-11-2009
· Subculture theory, a paradigm most closely associated with British cultural studies, promised to provide a Marxian sociology of the connections between social-structural determinants and their...
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» Stars versus Rainbows: Walt Disney’s and Jim Henson’s “Philosophies of Childhood”
23-11-2009
· The television special The Muppets go to Walt Disney World (1990) provides an unique opportunity to discuss the differences between two influential producers of children’s media culture, Jim...
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» Yet Another September: AOL, World of Warcraft, and Niche Markets
23-11-2009
· Since it’s introduction in November 2004, World of Warcraft (WoW) has exploded in popularity within the sphere of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMOs), dominating the field with...
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» Memories, Identity and Mother Russia: A Study of the Russian-Chechen Conflict
23-11-2009
· Today’s Russian-Chechen conflict is based upon a long history of colonization and domination. Although the historic conflict relies upon an underlying mentality of “us” versus “them,”...
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» The Western Canada Communciation Graduate Students Conference: Notes from the Organizers
23-11-2009
· The Western Canada Communication Graduate Students Conference (more commonly known as “The Nelson Conference”) is co-organized and co-hosted by the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser...
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» Super Undies, Buff Bodies and Body Facism: Normative Gay Identity and the Politics of Regulation
23-11-2009
· fab Magazine, a bi-weekly based in Toronto, is an example of a gay tabloid press that claims to provide an alternative to the traditional discourses of gay identity. Providing local coverage of...
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» Ambivalence and Cultural Industrialization in Canada
23-11-2009
· If Canadian culture can be said to have a master narrative, it is surely one of ambivalence. It is a concept that is laced implicitly throughout Canadian popular culture, as well as Canadian...
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» Prisoners of the Media: Television in Russia Since the Collapse of Communism
23-11-2009
· In 1991 one of the most oppressive regimes in history collapsed and millions of people were set free. Following the implementation of glasnost and perestroika Soviet communism proved untenable and...
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» Global and local media dynamics in identity construction among British Muslims after September 11
31-10-2011
· The terrorist attacks of September 11 have become a defining moment not only in the history of the US where they took place, but also in the history of Muslims around the world, particularly those...
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» Of Insurrection and Its Scribes
17-05-2010
· Review of The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection. Semiotext(e), 2009.
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» Identity VS E-dentity
17-05-2010
· In our current technologically-mediated environment there is in fact a fourth dimension that needs to be taken in to consideration which plays an equally vital role in shaping our identity: that of...
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» Recap and Review of the 2010 Smythe Lecture
17-05-2010
· Review of the Graham Murdoch's 2010 Smythe Lecture. The Smythe Lecture is held annually at Simon Fraser University in honour of Dallas Smythe (1907-1992).
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» “Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That.” The Marketization of Brands Through Social Networking Sites.
17-05-2010
· The past several years have witnessed the emergence of interactive media with social networking sites. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have all become increasingly popular social marketing tools for...
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» Enclosure and emancipation in scholarly journals publishing: Overview, critical, global and communication perspectives
31-10-2011
· The current state of scholarly communication is presented as one of contest between an increasingly commercial system that is dysfunctional and incompatible with the basic aims of scholarship, and...
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