Latest news
- Book awards for Heidi Tworek for News from Germany
GJIL researcher Heidi Tworek has won the 2020 Ralph Gomory Prize for her book, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900- 1945. - Studies on startups and media policy featured at ICA 2020
Research into the founders of journalism startups in Canada as well as on the impact of media policy was presented at the 2020 ICA annual conference. - New book by Jean Burgess on Twitter’s growth
Twitter: A Biography explores how the platform has evolved as a technology, a company, and a culture.
Research themes
UBC
Journalism innovation and media startups
UBC
Indigenous media engagement and explanatory journalism
Ryerson
Uptake, audiences and explanatory journalism
UBC/Ryerson
Historical innovation in explanatory journalism
Ottawa
Policy implications of explanatory journalism
QUT
Global engagement with explanatory journalism
Featured researcher
Elizabeth Dubois PhD, University of Ottawa
Dr. Dubois (PhD, University of Oxford) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa. Her work examines political uses of digital media including media manipulation, citizen engagement, and artificial intelligence
Featured project
New podcast about race from The Conversation Canada
