Call For Papers
2009: Volume 2, Issue 2
Veiling Differences:
Mediating Race, Gender, and Nation
Guest Editors:
Dr. Yasmin Jiwani, Concordia University
Dr. Aliaa Dakroury, Carleton University

Canada is widely admired for its multiculturalism policy and its seeming resistance of overt, state-imposed measures of assimilation. Yet, in the post September 11, 2001 world, and with the long-standing debates on home-grown terrorism, an emerging notion of “cultural citizenship” has surfaced, highlighting the ambiguities of collective belonging in the Canadian multicultural context.

This issue of the Global Media Journal -- Canadian Edition interrogates the constitutive role of mainstream media and popular culture in mediating constructions of Islam and Muslims in Canada.

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Launch of the
GMJ -- Canadian Edition

Thursday November 13, 2008
University of Ottawa

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Yahya R. Kamalipour
Founder of Global Media Journal
Professor and Head, Dept. of Communication,
Purdue University Calumet, USA

Call For Papers
2009: Volume 2, Issue 1
Ethics, New Media, and Social Networks
Guest Editors:
Dr. Mahmoud Eid, University of Ottawa
Dr. Stephen J.A. Ward, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The last two decades have witnessed a rapid transformation of traditional media into new media that encompasses digital, computerized, and networked information and communication technologies. This shift has raised concerns and discussions around the positive and negative implications of the new media, and other issues such as: control of information, volume and speed of communication, Habermasian democratic public sphere, and the global influence of media conglomerates. Marshall McLuhan’s theoretical research on communication technologies has enriched the historical understanding of social change.

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First Graduate Symposium of the
GMJ -- Canadian Edition

Friday November 14, 2008
University of Ottawa

Speakers
"Academic Networking and Publication in the Digital Age"
Dr. Yahya R. Kamalipour
Founder of Global Media Journal
Professor and Head, Dept. of Communication,
Purdue University Calumet, USA

"The Times and Spaces of the Global Media: Reinterpreting the Past as a Guide to the Present"
Dr. Dwayne Winseck
Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Communication,
Carleton University, Canada

Inaugural Issue
2008: Volume 1, Issue 1
Mapping Communication and Media Studies in Canada
Editors:
Dr. Mahmoud Eid and Dr. Daniel Paré
University of Ottawa

Robert E. Babe
Innis and the Emergence of Canadian Communication/Media Studies
Eric McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan’s Theory of Communication: The Yegg
Vincent Mosco
Current Trends in the Political Economy of Communication
Gaëtan Tremblay
Industries culturelles, économie créative et société de l’information
Darin Barney
Politics and Emerging Media: The Revenge of Publicity
Leslie Regan Shade
Public Interest Activism in Canadian ICT Policy: Blowin’ in the Policy Winds
Gertrude J. Robinson
Feminist Approaches to Journalism Studies: Canadian Perspectives
Stephen J. A. Ward
Global Journalism Ethics: Widening the Conceptual Base

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