Read Gretchen King's article,"Community Radio as Civic Media: The case of Radio al-Balad 92.4FM in Amman, Jordan," online in the Civic Media Project.
Gretchen King is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. She has won various Media@McGill fellowships and awards and is a member of the Media@McGill Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia.
Media@McGill grant awardee Molly Sauter was profiled in the McGill Monthly, an alumni magazine, and speak about her research and her her new book, The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hactivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet.
Becky Lentz, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at McGill Universit, recently became a Fellow with the Center for Media, Data, and Society in the School of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest. The Center, which is the leading institution of research on media, communication, and information policy in Central and Eastern Europe, produces scholarly and practice-oriented research addressing academic, policy and civil society needs.
Media@McGill is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Jonathan Sterne as Interim Director of Media@McGill from June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015. Professor Sterne will be taking over the directorship from Professor Christine Ross, who is on sabbatical. Professor Ross will be returning to her official position on June 1, 2015.
Media@McGill would like to congratulate Dr. Christine Ross, from the Faculty of Arts, James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History and Director of Media@McGill for being awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
For more detailed on the award and view the list of medal recipients from McGill, click here.
