Screen Culture Research Group

Studying the Material Culture and Practices of Screen Media

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Haidee Wasson

Haidee Wasson is currently the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She first came to Concordia in 2004, having taught at the University of Minnesota. Her interdisciplinary scholarship includes work on film and film culture, museums, emergent technologies, feminism and media historiography. Wasson’s current SSHRC-funded research project investigates...

Bart Simon

Bart Simon is the current director of TAG and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. His areas of expertise include game studies, science and technology studies and cultural sociology. His game studies research crosses a variety of genres, platforms and modalities looking at the relation of game cultures, socio-materiality and everyday life....

Alice Ming Wai Jim

Alice Ming Wai Jim is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University where she teaches courses on contemporary art, media art, and ethnocultural art histories. She received her MA in Art History from Concordia University in 1996 and her PhD from McGill University in 2004. Before joining the faculty at Concordia,...
Charles Acland

Charles Acland

Charles Acland is Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies. He is author of Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (Duke UP 2003), Youth,Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of ‘Youth in Crisis’ (Westview/Perseus, 1995), and most recently Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (Duke UP, 2012). He is editor of...