Episodios

  • Towards a Materialist Understanding of Progressive Solidarity (with Dr. James Compton, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario)

    Towards a Materialist Understanding of Progressive Solidarity (with Dr. James Compton, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario)
    May 24 2023
    Dr. James Compton argues there is a need for a renewed materialist understanding of progressive solidarity.
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    34 m
  • Far-Right Political Extremism and the Anti-Vaccine Movement in Canada (with Dr. Sibo Chen, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University)

    Far-Right Political Extremism and the Anti-Vaccine Movement in Canada (with Dr. Sibo Chen, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University)
    Apr 24 2023
    Dr. Sibo Chen talks about how vaccine denialism is driven by the rise of right-wing populism rather than information deficit and other psychological factors in relation to the #CanadaHasFallen hashtag on Twitter.
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    19 m
  • Crisis Communication: The Threat of Old Tweets for Professional Athletes (with Dr. Duncan Koerber, Assistant Professor, Brock University)

    Crisis Communication: The Threat of Old Tweets for Professional Athletes (with Dr. Duncan Koerber, Assistant Professor, Brock University)
    Mar 24 2023
    Dr. Duncan Koerber joins IAMCR & Friends (in Canada) to discuss recontextualized tweets that result in crisis communication for athletes.
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    20 m
  • US and China's Digital Tech Industries: A Rivalry in New Media Imperialism (with Dr. Tanner Mirrlees, Associate Professor, Ontario Tech University)

    US and China's Digital Tech Industries: A Rivalry in New Media Imperialism (with Dr. Tanner Mirrlees, Associate Professor, Ontario Tech University)
    Jan 25 2023

    Dr. Tanner Mirrlees joins IAMCR & Friends to discuss the US/China tech rivalry in relation to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies.

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    27 m
  • The Discursive Construction of the 'Virtual Commute' (with Dr. Artur de Matos Alves, Associate Professor, Department of Human Sciences, Letters, and Communication, TELUQ University)

    The Discursive Construction of the 'Virtual Commute' (with Dr. Artur de Matos Alves, Associate Professor, Department of Human Sciences, Letters, and Communication, TELUQ University)
    Nov 24 2022

    Dr. Artur de Matos Alves joins the podcast to discuss how the 'virutal commute' function on Microsoft Teams operates as a wellness tool that reframes work time by re-signifying work tasks that reinforces platform capitalism through a biopolitical structuring of work.
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    28 m
  • Formal Subsumption of Reproductive Labor in the Gig Economy (with Dr. Siyuan Yin, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University)

    Formal Subsumption of Reproductive Labor in the Gig Economy (with Dr. Siyuan Yin, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University)
    Oct 21 2022

    In our premiere episode, Dr. Siyuan Yin discusses the platform gig economy from the perspective of reproductive labor and migrant domestic workers. She argues that understanding the prevalence of platform work should be situated in the continuous formal subsumption of reproductive labor and the class immobility of migrant domestic workers.

    Dr. Siyuan Yin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

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    30 m