Browsing School of Communication and Culture by Title
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Safety culture in oil and gas : factors that contribute to cultures of non-report
(2016-10-25)This study addresses cultures of non-report in the oil and gas industry in Alberta, Canada. The purpose of the study was to determine what human, workplace/organizational, and external factors contribute to the presence ... -
Seeds of sustainability : food literacy communication in sharing gardens
(2014-10-03)Food is omnipresent in our lives. As humans, we spend a great deal of time thinking about it, growing it, marketing it, looking for it, and consuming it. Yet access to food is anything but guaranteed, even in a thriving ... -
Sense from the senseless : understanding how journalists make sense of everyday trauma
(2013-07-05)A significant body of research documents the experiences of war correspondents and the impact covering conflict has on them. Far fewer studies focus on the impact that covering everyday trauma has on journalists. This ... -
Skylines and hemlines : a visual exploration of expatriate women’s negotiation and definition of appropriate dress in the changing cityscape of Doha
(2016-10-26)This paper uses visual ethnography to explore the narratives of definition and negotiation of appropriate dress for eighteen expatriate women who currently live in Qatar’s capital Doha. Rapid shifts to the physical and ... -
Smell, Odor, and Somatic Work: Sense-Making and Sensory Management
(American Sociological Association, 2008)Sensation (noun) is emergent in joint acts of sensing (verb). To sense, in other words, is to make sense, and sense making entails what we call "somatic work." We investigate these dynamics in the context of olfaction, ... -
Social media and health communication for seniors
(2016-10-26)The number of Canadians aged 65 years and older continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. The current over-burdened healthcare system must identify and implement alternative mechanisms for delivering care to this ... -
Social media enter the stadium : a case study on the political economy of media at the 2010 Winter Olympics
(2011-07-11)Just prior to the opening of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, a 21-year-old Georgian luger died after his sled left the Whistler Sliding Centre track travelling at 140 kilometres an hour. The following paper uses Critical ... -
Social Semiotics and Fieldwork: Method and Analytics
(SAGE Publications, 2007-01)Drawing from recent analytical developments in semiotics and postmodern ethnography, this article exposes and assesses the combination of social semiotics and fieldwork as a form of qualitative inquiry. Approaches to ... -
Starving for words : the evolution of interpersonal communication from anorexia to wellness
(2014-09-08)This study explores the evolution of identity, authenticity, and the quality of interpersonal communications in the journey from anorexia nervosa to wellness. Framed by Altman and Taylor's social penetration theory and ... -
Stewards of the land, water and sky : Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s relationship with the Burrard inlet
(2018-02-10)This thesis investigates Tsleil-Waututh peoples’ relationship with the Burrard Inlet brought forth by community members and representatives of Tsleil-Waututh Nation as a marker of their collective identity. A modern history ... -
The Supermom syndrome : an intervention against the need to be king of the mothering mountain
(2011-10-22)Through a layered account format combining theory, performative autoethnographic vignettes, and dialogical exchanges, the author explores the performances of Supermotherhood as they materialize within her life and ... -
Sustaining cultural heritage : the impact of eBannok on the Akha women of Thailand
(2014-07-04)This field study is informed by the principles of social constructivism and the theoretical perspectives of postcolonial theory and standpoint feminist theory. It represents the impact of the Thailand-based artisan cooperative ... -
Symbolic Interaction as Music: The Esthetic Constitution of Meaning, Self, and Society
(University of California Press, 2006-02)Analytical frameworks such as dramaturgy and narrative analysis are respectively grounded in metaphors of life as theater and life as a story. In related fashion, in this article the authors argue for the creation of another ... -
Symbolic spaces in dirty work: academic service as authentic resistance
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Drawing from in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted at an American public research university with 46 professors I analyze the meanings that faculty in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities assign to ... -
Talking with our mouths full : performance and feasting as intercultural dialogue
(2015-07-16)In May 2015, Vancouver Moving Theatre produced The Big House, a theatrical feast in which culturally significant food, art, and narratives were shared. The intent was to create a space for "coming together". The feast was ... -
The techne of making a ferry: a non-representational approach to passengers’ gathering taskscapes
(Journal of Transport Geography, 2011)Drawing upon ethnographic data collected in British Columbia’s ferry-dependent island and coastal communities, non-representational theory, and mobility studies literature this article examines the process of making, or ... -
Technologies of the sky: a socio-semiotic and critical analysis of televised weather discourse
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-04)We offer a critical reading of televised weather reporting and forecasting discourse. We analyze text obtained from a US affiliate station of The Weather Channel over three days when a winter front advanced through the ... -
The technology of hope : twitter and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign
(2015-09-01)On April 14, 2014 Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group, abducted 274 girls from a secondary school in the Chibok region of northeastern Nigeria. The mass abduction of the Chibok girls shook Nigerians and spurred a social ... -
Terra Firma and the digitally co-present migrant : exploring the significance of landscape for the newcomer
(2018-08-30)This thesis presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis in anecdotal narratives of several digitally co-present migrants’ agency, access, and attachment process in the context of their new geography, the landscape ... -
The Cumberland commons : a forest ethnography
(2019-09-24)This study is a forest ethnography, which is an ethnographic genre that explores “what forests are” and “how they came to be” primarily by examining the complex social histories of those that live near forested spaces. ...
