[ April 18, 2012; 9:30 am to 11:30 am. ] Date: Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Time: 9:30 AM

Diasporic Media in Multicultural Cities: A Comparative Study on Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles

Committee

Senior Supervisor: Catherine Murray (School of Communication / Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies, SFU)
Supervisor: Alison Beale (School of Communication, SFU)
Supervisor: Mary Lynn Young (Sing Tao School of Journalism, UBC)
Internal Examiner: Kirsten McAllister (School [...]

[ April 12, 2012; 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ] Date: Thursday, 12 April 2012

Time: 1:30 PM

Online games as a medium of cultural communication: An ethnographic study of sociotechnical transformation

Committee

Senior Supervisor: Richard Smith (School of Communication, SFU)
Supervisor: Andrew Feenberg (School of Communication, SFU)
Supervisor: J. Adam Holbrook (School of Communication, SFU)
Supervisor: Roman Onufrijchuk (School of Communication, SFU)
Internal Examiner: Ann Travers (Department of Sociology, SFU)
External Examiner: Bonnie [...]

[ April 4, 2012; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Date: Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Time: 12:00 PM

Cultural Production, Neoliberalization, and the Global Humour Market:

An Analysis of the Current Field of Canadian Stand-up Comedy

Committee

Senior Supervisor: Zoë Druick (School of Communication, SFU)
Supervisor: Gary McCarron (School of Communication, SFU)
Supervisor: Richard Gruneau (School of Communication, SFU)
Internal Examiner: Catherine Murray (School of Communication / Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s [...]

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