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Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University

Dr. Zoe Druick is Associate Professor in Communcation at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include Canadian cultural policy Critical theory Discourse analysis Documentary film Popular culture and media Semiotics Visual technologies. I have published numerous articles on the interrelationship of documentary film and educational media with discourses and practices of democracy. My books include Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board (2007), Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television (with Aspa Kotsopoulos) (2008), and A Married Couple (forthcoming).

While you were out: The Canadian Media Have Disappeared
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April 8, 2010 Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University One comment

The CRTC’s decision to allow private television networks in Canada to sell content to cable and satellite carriers may have broader policy implications.

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A Married Couple: Reality TV’s progenitor turns 40
Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University

January 22, 2010 Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University 3 comments

A re-examination of A Married Couple in light of the current proliferation of reality-based TV.

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Media Event 2.0: Guy Laliberté’s Final Frontier
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November 12, 2009 Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University 2 comments

The confluence of edutainment, celebrity philanthropy, popular environmentalism, post-cold war neo-liberal politics, and the media event in Guy Laliberte’s space tourism.

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Examining South Korea’s rapid economic ascent, Gil-Soo Han reveals how “nouveau-riche nationalism” collides with migrant realities. Centering on the Naju forklift abuse case, he exposes how economic pride and social hierarchy intersect

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Golden M. Owens reinterprets Rosey the Robot as a futuristic Mammy figure, linking domestic servitude, robot etymologies, and animation history to show how racialized labor logics persist beneath the surface of family entertainment.

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Anna Lovatt traces how artists from Mimi Smith to Letícia Parente used television and video to redraw the boundaries between art, media, and everyday life. The column reveals how the “screen age” has transformed drawing

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In his analysis of K-Pop Demon Hunters, Dal Yong Jin challenges theories of “odorless” hybridity, arguing for a politicized model of cultural mixing that keeps local specificity visible while negotiating unequal global media power.

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