{"id":480,"date":"2014-11-23T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=480"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:23:42","slug":"mopas-michael","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/mopas-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mopas"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"areas-of-interest\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Criminology; socio-legal studies; sound studies; science and technology studies; science, technology and law; crime, media and culture; cyber-crime and cyber-governance; policing and surveillance; governmentality; actor-network theory; food studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Mopas is currently accepting graduate students interested in the fields of: 1) criminology and socio-legal studies; 2) science and technology studies; 3) sound studies; 4) food studies; and 5) cultural studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"about\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Mopas is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He is cross-appointed to the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Law and Legal Studies. He is also a member of the Duncombe Studio for Social and Cultural Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael holds a PhD from the Centre of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto. He specializes in the area of science, technology and law. His past research has looked at the regulation of the Internet and representations of forensics in popular culture. He has also published articles on public criminology and access to research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael is currently completing a SSHRC-funded project that examines the place of sound in law. The study explores the ways in which judges hear and make sense of auditory evidence presented at trial and documents the work of audio forensic experts in making, interpreting and rendering them audible. As one of the few places where scientific facts and technological artefacts are opened up to scrutiny, the study uses the adversarial setting of the courtroom as a site to investigate the mutually constitutive relationship between science and technology, on the one hand, and law, on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recently, Michael has turned his love for music into a new research project that explores the relationship between technology and emotion by looking at the ways that electronic artists produce \u2018feeling\u2019 and \u2018soul\u2019 with what are often thought of as cold and unemotional instruments (e.g., laptops, turntables, effects pedals, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his spare time, Michael plays upright bass in several jazz bands in the city and participates in long-distance triathlons. He has completed two Ironman races (Lake Placid and Mont-Tremblant) and several 70.3 events. In September 2019, Michael will be starting a BMus (Honours) degree (part-time) here at Carleton U.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"works-in-progress\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Works in Progress<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. Mopas and Kat Huybregts. \u2018Training by numbers: Wearable fitness-tracking technology, the body, and the quantified self\u2019. Chapter accepted for inclusion in V. Zawilski (ed.), <em>Bodywork in Canada<\/em>. Toronto: Canadian Scholars\u2019 Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. Mopas. \u2018Tuning In: Making a Case for an \u2018Aural Criminology\u2019\u2019. Revise and resubmit at <em>Theoretical Criminology<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. Mopas (in press) \u2018Howling Winds: Sound, Sense, and the Politics of Noise Regulation\u2019 in <em>Canadian Journal of Law and Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. Mopas and Amelia Curran (2016) \u2018Translating the Sound of Music: Forensic Musicology and Visual Evidence in Music Copyright Infringement Cases\u2019 in <em>Canadian Journal of Law and Society<\/em>, 31(1): 25-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. Mopas (2014) \u2018Translating Critical Scholarship Out of the Academy: ANT, Deconstruction, and Public Criminology\u2019 in Dominique Robert and Martin Dufresne (eds.), <em>Actor-Network Theory, Crime Studies and Technologies<\/em>. London: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 81-98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. Mopas (2014) \u2018The Politics of Counting Crime\u2019 in Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca (eds.), <em>Criminalization, Representation and Regulation<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 75-101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. Mopas and Dawn Moore (2012) \u2018Talking Heads and Bleeding Hearts: Public Criminology, Emotions and Newsmaking\u2019 in <em>Critical Criminology<\/em>, 20(2): pp. 183-196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael S. 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