Saturday, April 30, 2022

Brandon Rigato presented at the House of Commons

On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Brandon Rigato gave a Witness statement for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security panel for the study of the Rise of Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (IMVE) in Canada. Rigato is a doctoral candidate (ABD) of Communication and Media Studies at the School of... More

Thursday, February 24, 2022

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 8: By Gen Z for Gen Z

By Ghadah Alrasheed Introduction If you ask anyone what defines Generation Z, their instant response would be probably “social media”. Words such as “digital-savvy” emerged to describe millennials’ use of new media but things with Generation Z seem to have shifted to another level of digital use and consumption. And this is not strange... More

Thursday, February 24, 2022

StoryGround

By Siqi Wu Click here to visit the website  Nowadays, most media is adult-dominated and contains many stereotypical images of young people. Therefore, I chose to make media that is not only directed towards young people but also produced by our youth. As a member of Gen Z, I must admit that we... More

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Waddle TV

By Sophie Marvell Click here for a full view of "Waddle TV": The app design I have created is for an application aimed to create educational, and entertaining content for children at the ages of 0-6. The app is called “Waddle TV”. What inspired this app design was the need for advertisement-free and education/entertaining... More

Thursday, February 24, 2022

CyberSupport: Youth, Social Media and Cyberbullying

By Thomas Pouta Click here to visit the website  In discussions of youth and their consumption of contemporary media, cyberbullying emerges as one of the most pressing issues. This project is designed to address this issue through stories inspired by the aesthetics and storylines of vintage adventure games such as Mytsery House... More

Thursday, February 24, 2022

YouthMove: App for Activism

By Haylea Coates Scroll down the above slides for a full view of the app design This is my design for a Canadian youth activism application, which I have named YouthMove. This application compiles resources for youth to learn about, discuss, and safely prepare to protest social injustice. YouthMove allows users to organize and... More

Friday, January 28, 2022

Pandemic Narration “When It is Over”

It is not easy to be hopeful these days. This pandemic narration "When It Is Over" is about finding and keeping the spark of hope. It is a 3-minutes pandemic narration in English/Indonesian, a voiceover in Indonesian & illustrated with one-line-drawings. ::: "When It is Over"  Narrators: Merlyna Lim & Novel Tjahyadi Scriptwriter &... More

Thursday, January 20, 2022

The Diary of a Pandemic Student

Editor’s note: What happens when an international student, thanks to the travel restrictions associated with Covid-19, suddenly finds themselves trapped in their host country? Here’s one student’s experience.   By Rachael Ibeh In 2017, I migrated from Nigeria to Canada for my University education. I had just turned 17 at that time, and it... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 7: Reimagine Race

  By Ghadah Alrasheed   Introduction Many would argue that McLuhan’s main legacy culminates in his prophecy about the “global village” and anticipation of the internet. In popular usage, the global village has become connotative of a techno-utopian vision, suggesting peace and harmony enabled by electronic communications. It has... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Digital Painting: “bad day”

. By Heather McLaughlin This piece, entitled, bad day, is based on the work on Vivek Shraya’s 2018 book, I’m Afraid of Men. The book details Shraya’s experience as a transwoman of colour as she navigates a Eurocentric world of surveillance, internalized and externalized forms of misogyny, culminating in her fear of men and... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Poem: Do we Really have Artistic Vision?

  By Grace Perkunder   Lines are scribbled on a canvas Illustrating the page With colours and shapes A finished piece It is colourful and abstract It appeals to the eyes I squint my eyes and try to write a story in my mind about it But it doesn’t answer questions Or ask them... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Poem: Hashtag Concrete

By Tyreike Reid   Hashtag Concrete The only thing stronger than the bullets hitting the floor Maybe if my skin was made of concrete I wouldn’t have to fight Maybe if my bones were made of concrete I wouldn’t have to run Crawl into tiny spaces where I am rejected Filling rooms that do... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Collage: Too Black & Not Black Enough

  By Taia Goguen-Garner Too Black & Not Black Enough is a collection of family photos from my early childhood. This collage depicts being of mixed race (Black & White) and growing up in a predominantly White family. Growing up in a predominantly White family, my sister, cousin, and I were the Black people... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Infographic: Re-Imagining Normative Presentations of Maternal Experiences

  .   Inforgraphic by Lalla Maiga   By Lalla Maiga The knowledge we have on birthing women and their childbirth experience emphasizes predominantly white, middle-class, and female adults. Most existing studies on pregnant women rarely focus on the implications of different social class locations on... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Collage: Investigations of Mixed ‘Eurasian’ Ancestry

    By Olivia B. Castaneda In the book Orientalism, Edward Said says “Everyone who writes about the Orient must locate himself vis-a-vis the Orient”. In other words, the writer of the Orient must align with the position of the Orient. However, Said’s insights on such tensions of authorship between the writer and the... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Collage: Stubbornly White – Reimagining British Media

  By Arifah Baksh While global media is generally moving away from prejudice and racism, British media has fallen behind. My collage illustrates racism in British media by comparing headlines written about Kate Middleton with those of Meghan Markle. Meghan is biracial and was born in Los Angeles, whereas Kate is White and was... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Sketch: Reimagine the “Pussy Hat”

  By Sheridan Worth The Women’s March is a reoccurring event that encourages activism all over North America to march for women's rights. Within the last couple of years, the march had a new approach that encouraged women to wear pink hats that represented a “pussy cat” when marching. This idea came to life... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Painting: 3omri

    By Dorota Babiakova My deep reverence of women is illustrated throughout my work as a visual artist. I have explored various themes of womanhood and femininity independent of the male gaze, which has often narrated societal perceptions of women. My intention as an artist is to highlight the raw beauty and power... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Photomontage: Why we must Ogle at Google

  By Grace Girotte The photomontage, titled “G(O)ogol”, addresses the interlocking of race, gender and class while revealing structural inequalities reproduced by the search engine of Google. It aims to draw attention to “algorithmic oppression” and systemic racism encoded in software and inherent in technology’s predictive... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Podcast: Charlie Hebdo through a Psychopathological Perspective

  By Ashee Pamma My main interest undertaking this project concerns this absurdity that Charlie Hebdo became, shifting from their fundamental leftist, libertarian ideology, going after politicians, notably the far-right National Front to extremism, hate speech and hardcore racism. The terrorist attack and outpour of support, from across the... More

Monday, May 17, 2021

Outside of the Realm of Privilege

By Emma Pietrobon Growing up in suburban Orleans, I have been sheltered from many things. For the most part, seeing the effects of homelessness and poverty was not a part of my everyday life. I was usually surrounded by wealth, whiteness and privilege - most of my friends lived in big, suburban homes in... More

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Podcast: Lockdown

In this episode of the Lockdown podcast, host Julia Cawthorn speaks with and Rebecca about their experiences as Asian women in Canada amid a wave of anti-Asian violence in North America and on enduring stereotypes of race and gender surrounding Asian women.   Click to listen to “Lockdown”    Julia is a recent... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Glue guns, not handguns

By Annabelle Linders On February 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida experienced a school shooting, leaving 17 students and staff dead. In response to this tragedy, 28 survivors founded March for Our Lives (abbreviated as MFOL), a non-profit dedicated to preventing gun violence in the United States, with a focus... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Fictional characters and their symbology as a powerful tool for activist expressions

  By Mariya Mubeen  Protests and activism are always about a cause, or a change. It involves imagining the world as a better place, even if the ‘better’ changes from protest to protest. At the end of the day, protests represent a group of people coming together to change something and usually this involves... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Why a hashtag isn’t enough for a feminist revolution: The “Ni Una Menos” movement

  By Oriana Santana Macias “The killing of women because they are women” is a recurrent phrase that has captivated the focus of Latin American feminist activism. The region includes 5 of the 12 countries with the highest rate of femicide in the world. According to The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] I Paid a Bribe: How a crowdsourcing digital campaign took on corruption

    Jami E McElrea India is one of the fastest growing economies, yet corruption is rampant. More than 50% of Indians have bribed government officials in 2019. In 2010 transparency international ranked India 87th out of 178 countries. Corruption has a huge economic and social cost in India and has created a system... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 6: Current activism and alternative media

  Introduction by Ghadah Alrasheed With the outbreak of COVID-19, life feels surreal and strange as our sheltered world has been overbalanced. The ensuing circumstances, however, have also thrown into sharp relief social inequality, inefficient governance and racial disparity as we have seen clearly who had been the most impacted by COVID-19... More

Sunday, February 21, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Bread and butter, but at what cost? – A glimpse into the Indian farmers’ protest movement

By Keya Shirali At the time I began synthesizing my research for writing up this article about some of the media attention and government retaliation the Indian farmers’ protest movement has garnered, it was still mid-December 2020. Now in the midst of February 2021, there has been an influx of rapidly developing information and... More

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

The Hardest Challenge for International Students? Finding Employment in Canada During a Global Pandemic

By Jiaming Pan   Are you stressed? Self-doubting? Anxious? To all the international students, new graduates, and people who are looking for a job during the pandemic: All your efforts will pay off in the end. It has been over three years since I first came to this beautiful land – Canada. About three... More

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Podcast: Pandemic Personally

Listen to the first episode of the new podcast Pandemic Personally, in which Aidan Battley meets with people who tell unique and unconventional stories to inspire us in the middle of a pandemic.   Click to listen to “Pandemic Personally”:  Aidan Battley is a fourth-year Bachelor of Communications and Media Studies student at... More

Friday, January 15, 2021

Same Storm, Different Boats: COVID-19 and Indigenous Communities

By Molly Dawe   When the pandemic first began, many were quick to remark that we’re all in the same boat, that we’re all in this together. Though the intent of these notions may be in the right place, their impact surely isn’t. Saying that we are all in the same boat dismisses the... More

Friday, December 4, 2020

Brainstorming Session Conducted by ALiGN with Partners to Discuss Refugees’ Media in the Times of Covid-19

A group of ALiGN’s international partners, including members from non-profit organizations and the academic sector, came together in October for a virtual brainstorming session to discuss refugees’ media and communication practices in the times of COVID-19. Organized by  Dr. Ghadah Alrasheed, Interim co-Director of the ALiGN Media Lab, in... More

Friday, December 4, 2020

“George Floyd is my father. George Floyd is my brother. George Floyd is my uncle”: Mourning the death of George Floyd

By Phaven Mehari As a Black person, I am automatically categorized as part of a marginalized community. My personal experience as a Black woman living in Canada has taught me that no matter how much I push myself to be equal to the dominant race, I will always be different, and I will experience... More

Monday, November 16, 2020

“COVID-19 has removed the national boundaries: No matter if you are Chinese or Canadian, the virus treats everyone equally”

By Rui Wang Since the coronavirus hit Canada, the education system is experiencing a large-scale transformation, from in-class to online learning. COVID-19 has also transformed the student experience, from how we play, to how we learn. Everyone is forced to keep social distance by self-isolating at home. As the university closed the physical... More

Friday, November 6, 2020

“I am essentially an invisible queer person” LGBTQ+ vs. Cishet Gaydars

By Bianca McNaughton Queer people have a vastly different lived experience and view on others and the world than their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. I am a queer woman and I have seen how my experience differs from that of my straight peers on many occasions. This can be in social, educational, or professional... More

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