Abstract: This paper examines three major paradigms—mass communications, political economy, and poststructuralism—to demonstrate how the process of knowledge production erases their connection with their postcolonial subjects and locations. This mapping indicates that what one perceives to be at the margins…

Abstract: This article explores the disjuncture between knowledge about environmental degradation and the social practices in which we engage, and analyzes some of the meanings that we produce/reproduce about the natural world as citizens of the so-called global village. The…

Abstract: Tracing the movement of new medical information from the laboratory to individual consumers is a challenge to communications theorists and social scientists alike. This article adopts the position of the social study of medicine, which takes into account the…

Abstract: In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences of our increasing dependence on “vision machines.” With little use, he claims that our sense organs will atrophy and we will degenerate into…

Abstract: Grounded in rhetorical theory, this paper examines the “Oka crisis” and suggests that the conflict created a place of non-identification where assumptions about the superiority of Canadian (or Québecois) values and norms became unsettled. It argues that by embodying…

ABSTRACT The Canadian government’s June 2010 decision to replace the mandatory longform version of the census with a voluntary National Household Survey (NHS) poses a real risk that governments, other public-sector and civil-society agencies, and private users alike will rely…

ABSTRACT When the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) was imposed on Ontario’s university campuses in 2006, faculty and students were made to look closely at their own habits and to reconsider campus traditions relating to privacy.…

Aesthetics manifest a rationally ambiguous category of meaning that encompasses both relational and representational dimensions of communication. In this paper, I argue that (1) truth claims have ontological consequences bound in the social commitments and obligations generated through expressive choices…

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