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Kevin Dowler

Kevin Leslie Dowler

Media & Culture
DepartmentCommunication Studies (York)
Areas of Expertisecultural policy in Canada and Europe; art and the city; aesthetics and popular culture; history of communications
http://www.yorku.ca/kdowler/ (external link) 

Kevin Dowler joined the Communications Programme in the Division of Social Science as Assistant Professor in 1997, after spending one year in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carleton University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Programme de Doctorat Conjoint en Communication in Montréal, and held a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship from 1994-96 at the School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University. He teaches courses on broadcasting and cultural policy, communications theory, popular culture, and video art. He is also a Fellow of Calumet College at York University, and a Co-Researcher for the Culture of Cities Project at York.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2010 - Lewis Kaye; Dissertation: The rhythms of soundspace: Technology, space and the social organization of aural experience

2006 - Katarina Kuruc; Thesis: Globalization and media imperialism : a case study of the Slovak Republic's television media structure and content

2005 - Gregory Flemming; Thesis: Prisoner of the televisual gaze: A pyschoanalytic model of television