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television in Spain’s democratic transition to Hollywood’s international
dominance, from media politics in the post 9–11 era to how big political
economic forces work in the mundane routines of daily life and culture.
His writing on media and cultural consumption draws attention to the
specter of living life under ever expanding governmental and commercial
surveillance. His current work on the environmental impact of media
focuses on the environmental harms caused by media, information tech-
nologies, and electronics.
Source: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DAH/Media
Studies/Pages/RichardMaxwell.aspx
Dr. Patrick McCurdy is an Associate Professor in the Department
Communication at the University of Ottawa and a Core Member of the
University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy. His
research draws from media and communication, journalism, social move-
ment studies and the energy humanities to examine media as a site and
source of social struggle and contestation. Most recently, his work has
studied the evolution of advertising and campaigning around Alberta’s
oil/tar sand in his project Mediatoil (www.mediatoil.ca). Patrick’s work
has been published in several academic journals and he is the co-author of
Protest Camps and the co-editor of three books: Protest Camps in
International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance
(2017), Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications,
Journalism and Society (2013) and Mediation and Protest Movements
(2013).
Source: https://arts.uottawa.ca/communication/en/people/mccurdy-
patrick
Associate Professor David McKnight is a researcher interested broadly
in politics, history, journalism and the media. Most recently he was a
co-author of Big Coal: Australia’s Dirtiest Habit (2013). He is also the
author of several books including Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of
Political Power (2012) and Beyond Right and Left: New Politics and the
Culture War (2005) which discusses the renewal of the progressive
political vision. He co-edited (with Robert Manne) Goodbye To All That?