Purposeful Play: Women Radio Artists in Canadian Campus and Community Radio
Studies show that women are under-represented in Canadian campus and community radio. Based on ethnographic research and survey data, this article posits a theory of "purposeful play," a set of strategies employed by women radio artists to create community and find their voices on the air.
In & out of the Classroom: Reflections on Identity, Technology, and the Radio Project
In this article I share my reflections on the radio project, a pedagogical tool that I incorporated in my upper-level seminars while teaching at University of Regina from 2004 to 2006. My analysis interrogates the merits (and disappointments) of the radio project as a productive (and potentially transgressive) pedagogical tool. I draw on theorists Spivak and Britzman in order to think about how social bonds are mediated by a technological environment outside the conventional university classroom. Furthermore, I explore how, through alternative pedagogies such as the radio project, social bonds may develop through processes of identification rather than identity politics.
Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema
Dominant cinema rereading dominant cinema - feminism and film theory replacing dominant cinema - feminism and film practice.