Communication and Media Studies

Benjamin Woo: Researcher of Geek Culture Steps Forward as EDI Advocate

Benjamin Woo: Researcher of Geek Culture Steps Forward as EDI Advocate

FPA Researchers Contribute to 2021 Canadian Election Debate

FPA Researchers Contribute to 2021 Canadian Election Debate

The mission of the Faculty of Public Affairs to build better democracy and foster informed citizenship was well on display in the 2021 Canadian federal election. FPA researchers were highly... More

Virtual Reality to Provide Vaccine Facts to Combat Hesitancy

Virtual Reality to Provide Vaccine Facts to Combat Hesitancy

A team of researchers at Carleton University received a NSERC Encouraging Vaccine Confidence in Canada grant to create a virtual reality (VR) simulation to provide accurate information about vaccinations to... More

When Digital Media and Racism Intersect, the Medium Is Still the Message

When Digital Media and Racism Intersect, the Medium Is Still the Message

By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Christopher Risch Prof. Armond Towns, the newest faculty member in Carleton University’s Communication and Media Studies program, was drawn to Canada from Virginia’s University of Richmond for a few... More

NFT Performance Art: Corporations Could Capitalize on Protest

NFT Performance Art: Corporations Could Capitalize on Protest

Lowell Gasoi is a PhD candidate in communication studies and instructor in the School of Journalism and Communication. By Lowell Gasoi Russian artist Petr Davydtchenko made what what he claims was the first... More

2020 Co-op Student of the Year

2020 Co-op Student of the Year

The Co-operative Education Office is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Carleton University Co-op Student and Employer of the Year Awards. The Co-op Awards are presented each year... More

Moving Academic Research to Public Discourse

Moving Academic Research to Public Discourse

The 2020 FPA Public Commentary Excellence Award winner is Josh Greenberg, director of the School of Journalism and Communication and program head of Communication and Media Studies. As a researcher, Greenberg... More

New Climate Change Collaborative Grad Program

New Climate Change Collaborative Grad Program

FPA Students in the MA Communication program have the opportunity to take part in a new specialization in climate change. Climate Change remains a burning societal, economic and political issue.... More

A Curator and Civic Leader Build Community While Confined at Home

A Curator and Civic Leader Build Community While Confined at Home

Linda Grussani is an Indigenous art curator with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history from Carleton. After working at the Canadian Museum of History for three years, she went back... More

Profile: Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society

Profile: Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society

  Carleton University Communication Prof. Merlyna Lim has expanded the scope of her research with the renewal of her Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society. Lim’s... More

2020 FPA Excellence Awards: A Virtual Celebration

2020 FPA Excellence Awards: A Virtual Celebration

The Faculty of Public Affairs celebrated its first virtual FPA Excellence Awards ceremonies on June 22nd and 23rd. The two ceremonies gave the FPA Associate Deans an opportunity to present... More

Insight Grant 2020: Determinants of sustainable Citizen-State relationships

Insight Grant 2020: Determinants of sustainable Citizen-State relationships

As the director of Arthur Kroeger College and a professor of Communication and Media Studies, Mary Francoli’s research has focused on open government and transparency between government institutions and members... More