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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Mythology of DWYL in the Neoliberal Marketplace of Academic Labour
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Locked In: Feminist Perspectives on Surviving on Academic Piecework
(New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, 2015-03)While increasing media attention is given to examining the status of contract faculty on university campuses there is little note made of the pervasiveness of women in these positions. This paper, by drawing on Marxist and ... -
Separate Playgrounds: Surveying the Fields of Girls’ Media Studies and Boyhood Studies
(Canadian Journal of Communication, 2012) -
“Missed Opportunity”: The Oversight of Canadian Children’s Media
(Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016)Canadian communication studies have largely ignored Canadian children’s media as a field of study. The children’s cultural industries in Canada are rich and diverse. This article argues that these cultural industries need ... -
Cultural imperialism of the North? The expansion of the CBC Northern Service and community radio
(Intellect, 2011-07)Radio broadcasting spread quickly across southern Canada in the 1920s and 1930s through the licensing of private independent stations, supplemented from 1932 by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and by its successor, ... -
Women, Radio Broadcasting and the Depression: A “Captive” Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials
(Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008)The image of women radio listeners during the Depression is unduly influenced by contemporary ideas about daytime serial dramas. This distortion must be revisited in light of new evidence uncovered through content analysis ... -
An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Unions in Canada
(Département des relations industrielles de l’Université Laval, 2005)Graduate student unions are beginning to attract attention in Canada and the United States. In Canada, unionization on campuses is especially important for organized labour, as union density has dropped below 30 percent ... -
Charity and Change: Montreal's English Protestant Charity Faces the Crisis of Depression
(Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 1987-6)Durant les années trente, tous les organismes charitables tant publics que privés, à travers le Canada, doivent s'adapter aux nouvelles circonstances engendrées par la Dépression. La crise est ressentie de façon particulièrement ... -
Private Broadcasting and the Path to Radio Broadcasting Policy in Canada
(Media and Communication, 2018-02-09)The largely unregulated early years of Canadian radio were vital to development of broadcasting policy. The Report of the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting in 1929 and American broadcasting both changed the direction ...
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