Capping Projects (Communications and Technology)
Students in the MA in Communications and Technology (MACT) are creating a body of applied research with this collection of six-credit capping projects, a required component of the course-based program that integrates the practical and professional aspects of the core areas of study.
Items in this Collection
- 32Gow, Gordon (Supervisor)
- 28McMahon, Rob (Supervisor)
- 16Adria, Marco (Supervisor)
- 13Varnhagen, Stanley (Supervisor)
- 12Campbell, Kathryn J. (Supervisor)
- 11Curry, Ann (Supervisor)
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Who Posts, Who Shares, Who Tells Your Story: A content analysis on how the public interacts with sharenting
Download2022-08-14
In today’s digitised society, people actively share their lives on social media networks, including popular platforms like Instagram. For parents this can include sharing, and sometimes oversharing, about their children. This is called sharenting, and previous research has shown that it can...
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Who speaks for the trees? Analyzing sources featured in Canadian environmental policy news stories
Download2024-08-22
The literature on environmental sustainability in Canadian news media underscores a dynamic discourse shaped by evolving journalistic practices and a growing trend in ecological modernization. Because of mainstreaming effects and the corresponding inclination to partner ecology and economics, the...
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X (formerly Twitter) Perspectives on Gender and Cultural Representation in Mulan (2020) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Download2024-03-22
Inequalities in gender and cultural representation are still prevalent throughout much of society and although these issues are becoming more widely recognized, progress in these areas has been largely stagnant. In recent years, Hollywood has been faced with strong public backlash and increased...
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2023-07-25
This case study explores what Media Richness Theory (Daft and Lengel, 1986) may offer as a theory to explain employee “Zoom fatigue” during COVID-19 and also examines potential fatigue-related gender differences that may affect our understanding of the theory. This project sought experiences from...