• Andrew Feenberg


    Director, ACT Lab / Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology / Professor, School of Communication, SFU

    Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. He has also taught at for many years in the Philosophy Department at San Diego State University…[More]


  • Roy Bendor


    Postdoctoral Research Fellow UBC

    Dr. Roy Bendor is a critical media scholar with an interest in the cultural and political significance of digital technologies...[More]


  • Florence Chee


    Assistant Professor, Loyola University, Chicago

    Florence is a Graduate student in the School of Communication. As a communications anthropologist, her research interests focus on the ethnographic investigation of how users define themselves socially amidst their technologies and environments…[More]


  • Darryl Cressman


    PhD Candidate School of Communication, SFU

    Darryl Cressman received his PhD from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2012 where he was a member of the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. Fascinated by the relationship between media and musical culture, he wrote his dissertation on how attentive listening shapes the design and meaning of concert halls ... [More]


  • Michael Felczak


    PhD Candidate School of Communication, SFU

    Michael Felczak has recently completed his PhD at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Michael's research examined the production and consumption of new communication technologies with a focus on the promotional activities of ...[More]


  • Maggie MacAulay


    PhD Candidate School of Communication, SFU

    Maggie is a doctoral student in the School of Communication. Interested in new media technologies, her research emphasizes the social constructedness of technologies as well as the ways they have been mobilized by social movements related to gender, sexuality, the environment and health…[More]


  • Tina Sikka


    Postdoctoral Fellow School of Communication, SFU

    Tina is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Communication. Her current research includes the study of geoengineering, or climate-engineering, technologies using a critical approach to technology studies coupled with critical discourse…[More]


  • Matthew Greaves


    PhD Student School of Communication, SFU

    Matthew is a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in the School of Communication and sessional instructor in the Labour Studies Program at Simon Fraser University. Interested in history, political economy, energy, technological change and [More]


  • Veronika Tzankova


    PhD Student School of Communication, SFU

    Veronika is a doctoral student at SFU’s School of Communication. Her research examines the politics of Turkish sexual expression within the domain of online digital media as a reaction to Islamist ideologies promoted by the current government of Turkey…[More]


  • Taeyoung Kim


    PhD Student, School of Communication, SFU

    Taeyoung is a doctoral student at SFU’s School of Communication . Based on critical communication tradition, his research focuses on roles of nation-states in transnational cultural and creative industries, relations between multiculturalism and nationalism, and social impacts of digital media technologies...[More]


Associate Members

  • Norm Friesen


    Canada Research Chair in E-Learning PracticesThompson Rivers University (Kamloops)

    Dr. Norm Friesen is Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. Dr. Friesen has been developing and studying Web technologies in educational contexts since 1995, and is the principal investigator in the SSHRC-sponsored “learningspaces.org” project…[More]


  • Sara M. Grimes


    Assistant Professor Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

    Dr. Sara M. Grimes is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto, where she teaches and researches primarily in the areas of in children’s new media and literature. She recently completed a PhD in Communication at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University…[More]


  • Edward Hamilton


    Faculty Member, Program Convenor Communication Studies, Capilano University

    Dr. Ted Hamilton is a faculty member in the Communication Studies program at Capilano University in North Vancouver, with a PhD from the School of Communication at SFU. His doctoral dissertation was a critical historical examination of online education…[More]


  • Michelle Irving


    MASSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship RecipientSchool of Interactive Arts & Technology, SFU

    Michelle Irving is a new media artist and electronic music producer. Her work has been presented internationally, and her music is released under the artist alias Granny’Ark on Zora Lanson Label (Berlin)…[More]


  • Kate Milberry


    Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

    Dr. Kate Milberry is a postdoctoral fellow with a PhD from SFU’s School of Communication. Her research examines the democratization of technology as a tool and technique for progressive social change. Her current work focuses on the relationship between social movements and the Internet …[More]


  • Anil Narine


    Assistant Professor Department of Visual Studies, Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology, University of Toronto

    Dr. Neil Narine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Studies (DVS) and in the Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology at the University of Toronto. He recently completed a PhD in Communication investigating …[More]


  • Terry Neiman


    Sessional Instructor School of Communication, SFU

    Terry has a unique background in materials science and engineering, in corporate management and in the mediation of family, work place, community and commercial conflicts. His research focuses on the role of dialogue in multiparty/multidisciplinary problem solving…[More]


  • Soyoung Park


    PhD Candidate Art, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)

    Soyoung Park makes real-time visual art, incorporating new media technology in her pieces. Currently, she is pursuing a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research is concerned with the ambiguity inherent in interpreting art…[More]


  • Neal Thomas


    Sessional Instructor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

    Dr. Neal Thomas has recently completed his doctorate at McGill’s Department of Art History and Communication. His research is focused on ICTs and knowledge representation…[More]


  • Marcelo Vieta


    PhD Candidate Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University (Toronto)

    Marcelo Vieta is a PhD student in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University. Grounded in a critical theoretical approach and a phenomenological methodology, his PhD work focuses on the political economic…[More]


  • Cindy Xin


    PhDProgram Director Learning and Instructional Development Centre, SFU

    Dr. Cindy Xin is a Program Director at the Learning and Instructional Development Center of Simon Fraser University. She has been conducting research and development on online learning and educational technology...[More]