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I also hold research affiliations at Carleton with the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/jewishstudies\/\">Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ccph\/\">Carleton Centre for Public History<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/\">Centre for European Studies<\/a>. I hold a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 20 years I have held several visiting appointments. I am a former Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. I also held an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professorship at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Arhus University and at the University of Amsterdam. Finally, I have held guest professorships at SUNY-Plattsburgh, the University of Freiburg, the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In winter 2025 I will be a short-term visiting professor at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal.<\/p>\n<h3>Teaching<\/h3>\n<p>I teach in several areas across our undergraduate and graduate curriculum. This includes core courses in media studies and communication theory as well as specialized courses focusing on media in the Canadian context, on media industries, and on media and communication ethics. I have also taught special topics exploring the relationship between communication and time. I was one of the first recipients of a Teaching Achievement Award offered by the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to supervise MA and PhD students pursuing research in any of these areas or in the specific areas mentioned in my research profile.<\/p>\n<h3>Research Profile<\/h3>\n<p>My work covers three broad areas of study: Media history, communication theory, and the study of the entertainment industries. A few main themes cut across these different areas:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>An interest in television as a form of entertainment, as a site for the circulation of culture, as a source for theorizing about media, and as way to study media regulation and communication policy.<\/li>\n<li>A focus on how different kinds of media technologies are used in different contexts \u2013 for education, for dissemination, and as a \u201ctool\u201d for doing things in the world<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To carry out this work I use of a range of historical and interpretive methods, including archival research, policy analysis, and media-theoretical criticism.<\/p>\n<p>My current research focuses on the impact of the Catholic Church on the historical development of television in Quebec in the 1950s and 60s and on the emerging field of \u201cmedia studies\u201d. This work further considers the value of thinking of the relationship between the history of television and urban history. Another project focuses on developing mid-range ethical frameworks for dealing with the ubiquity of online personal memory, using the European Union\u2019s \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d as inspiration. Finally, I have written about Toronto\u2019s CN Tower (both on my own and in joint work with my colleague Liam Cole Young) to think about the relationship between media and verticality.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the list of publications below for published work in these areas, along with earlier research on Canadian cultural policy and on the use of television at UNESCO in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Je souhaite \u00e9galement continuer \u00e0 d\u00e9velopper mon engagement \u00e0 travailler et \u00e0 \u00e9crire en fran\u00e7ais. Je suis autodidacte et je suis fi\u00e8re de publier mes recherches dans ma langue seconde et de contribuer davantage aux travaux que j&#8217;ai effectu\u00e9s au sein de jurys acad\u00e9miques et artistiques.<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<h3>Edited Anthologies and Journals<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erudit.org\/fr\/revues\/im\/2019-n33-im04907\/?ticket=315e8481957c06260067105ec0ed7c09\">\u201cRestituer (le temps)\/ Rendering (Time)\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0Co-edited with Vincent Bouchard.\u00a0 Special issue of <em>Interm\u00e9dialit\u00e9s:\u00a0<\/em><em>Histoire et th\u00e9orie des arts, des lettres et des techniques<\/em><em>, <\/em>volume 33, Spring, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitaepensiero.it\/scheda-fascicolo_contenitore_digital\/autori-vari\/comunicazioni-sociali-2015-2-tv-genres-in-the-age-of-abundance-001200_2015_0002-313438.html\">TV Genres in the Age of Abundance<\/a>\u201d, Special Issue of\u00a0<em>Communicazioni Sociali<\/em><em>, <\/em>co-edited with Massimo Scaglioni.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/product\/cultural-industries-ca\/\"><em>Culturalindustries.ca: Making Sense of Media in the Digital Age<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Co-edited with Peter Urquhart. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emp.ca\/intersections-of-media-and-communications-concepts-and-critical-frameworks.html\"><em>Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks<\/em><\/a>. Co-edited with Will Straw and Sandra Gabriele. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2011.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent Book Chapters and Journal Articles<\/h3>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00c9glise, t\u00e9l\u00e9vision et c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 dans la presse catholique des\u00a01950 au Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0\u00bb. In <em>La fabrique journalistique des c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9s<\/em>. Eds. Adrien Rannaud, Maude Marcotte, et M\u00e9lodie Simand-Houde<em>. <\/em>Montreal\u00a0: Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, <em>Accepted, now in revisions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp and Out: Verticality and Mediality at Toronto\u2019s CN Tower\u201d. In <em>Media Building: Architecture, Design and the Spatial Politics of Mass Communication<\/em>. Eds. James West, Wil Mari, and Carole O\u2019Reilly. London: Palgrave MacMillan. <em>In press.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hms.mediastudies.press\/pub\/wagman-remarkable-invention\/release\/7\">\u201cRemarkable Invention!\u201d,<\/a> <em>History of Media Studies <\/em>1:1 (October 2021), 7pp. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32376\/d895a0ea.ef8f548f<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween Canadians and Culture: The First Year of the CRTC\u201d. In <em>Canada\u2019s 1968: A Year and its Legacies<\/em>.\u00a0 Edited by Christopher Kirkey, Andrew Holman, and Michael Hawes.\u00a0 Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2021, pp. 175-194. <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould Canada Have an International Broadcasting Service?\u201d. In <em>Canada\u2019s Public Diplomacy<\/em><u>. <\/u>\u00a0Edited by Nicholas Cull and Michael Hawes.\u00a0 London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 161-172.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-44850-9_2\">\u201cSmall, Middle, Test: Rescaling Peripheral Media Markets<\/a>\u201d. In <em>Digital Peripheries<\/em>. Edited by Paul Stepan, Pavel Zahradka, and Petr Szczepanik, Berlin: Springer, 2020, pp. 15-35.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginationsjournal.ca\/index.php\/imaginations\/article\/view\/29443\">\u201cOn the Mediality of Two Towers: Calgary&#8211;Toronto<\/a>\u201d, Co-authored with Liam Cole Young.\u00a0 <em>Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. <\/em>10:2,<em>\u00a0 <\/em>2019, pp. 6-37.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree Canadian Film Policy Frameworks\u201d, In <em>Oxford Companion to Canadian Cinema<\/em>. Edited by Will Straw and Janine Marchessault. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 3-20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalking to Netflix with a Canadian Accent: On Digital Platforms and National Media Policies\u201d.\u00a0 In <em>Reconceptualizing Film Policies<\/em>. Edited by Nolwenn Mignant and Cecilia Tirtaine. New York: Routledge. 2017, pp. 209-221.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBureaucratic Celebrity\u201d. In <em>Far and Wide: Celebrity Culture in Canada<\/em>. Edited by Katja Lee and Lorraine York. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016, pp. 201-218.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.15215\/9781771990080-007\/html?lang=en\">\u201cOf Home Teams and Visiting Players: Imports and Substitutions in Canadian Professional Sports Media\u201d.<\/a> In <em>How Canadians Communicate: Sports<\/em>. Edited by Christopher Waddell and David Taras.\u00a0 Athabasca University Press, 2016, pp. 117-136.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocating UNESCO in Histories of Communication Study\u201d. In <em>The International History of Communication Study<\/em>. Edited by Peter Simonson and David Park. Routledge, 2015, pp. 71-89.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForgiving Without Forgetting: Contending with Digital Memory\u201d. In Sharrona Pearl, ed. <em>Images, Ethics, Technology<\/em>. New York: Routledge. 2015, pp. 111-125.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe Beginning of the Present: Pay TV, Screen Convergence and a Golden Age of Canadian Film\u201d. Paper co-written with Peter Urquhart and presented at the Annual Meeting of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching Television in the Pages of Quebec\u2019s <em>L\u2019Action Catholique, <\/em>1952-60\u201d. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlatforming the Circulation of (Some) Canadian Television\u201d. Paper presented at conference, \u201cPlatforms and Uses: Cinema, Television, Video Games, and Digital Creation\u201d, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Montreal, Quebec, November 3, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFashioning Televisual Celebrity in Quebec\u2019s Catholic Press, 1952-1962\u201d. Paper presented at conference, La fabrique journalistique des c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9s: Vedettariat, presse, et culture m\u00e9diatique dans la francophonie nord-atlantique (XVIII<sup>e<\/sup><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>&#8211; XXI<sup>e<\/sup><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>si\u00e8cles), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, April 27, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Media Policy and the Ethics of Digital Memory: Appreciating\u00a0the \u2018Right to be Forgotten\u2019\u201d. Invited lecture, Institut f\u00fcr Politikwisschenschaft, TU-Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, October 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CN Tower and the Vertical Imaginary\u201d. Paper presented at symposium, \u201cVertical Media\u201d. York University, Toronto, Ontario, October 21, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the Lifecycle for Audiovisual Content in the Age of Streaming?\u201d. Paper co-presented with Petr Szczepanik at virtual pre-conference, \u201cThe Impact of Streaming on Media Industries and Cultural Production\u201d. European Communication Research and Education Association (Media Industries and Cultural Production Section), Arhus, Denmark, October 17, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CN Tower and the Production of Vertical Spectacles in 1970s Toronto\u201d. Paper presented at virtual conference, \u201cMedia Building\u201d, Northumbria University and the Salford School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology, United Kingdom, July 7, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Art of Living in Media Time\u201d. Invited lecture as part of the Institut Fran\u00e7ais series \u201cLa nuit des id\u00e9es\u201d, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January 30, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeywords for Studying the Circulation of Audiovisual Content on SVOD Services\u201d. Paper co-presented with Petr Szczepanik at the conference \u201cThe International Circulation of National Cinemas and Audiovisual Content\u201d, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy.\u00a0 September 17-18, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcLuhanism and the Celebrity Media Executive\u201d. Paper presented at \u201cEdgy Media Symposium: On Borders, and Media Studies\u201d. 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