Patricia Mazepa

Patricia Mazepa is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at York University. Professor Mazepa's research interests include Communications, Information Technologies, Political Economy of Communication, History of Communication and Culture in Canada, Media and Democracy.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2018 - Alexandra Marcinkowski; Thesis: Discourse, Difference, And Dehumanization: Justifying The Canadian Japanese Internment, 1940 – 1949

2013 - Nicole Cohen; Dissertation: Negotiating precarious cultural work : freelance writers and collective organization in media industries

2013 - Andrew Monti; Thesis: Comparative electoral hortatory language 1993-1994: Jean Chretien and Silvo Berlusconi

2012 - Tracy Moniz; Dissertation: Women in the Margins: Media Representations of Women's Labour in the Canadian Press, 1939-1945

2012 - David Harmes; Dissertation: International Radio Broadcasting and Post-Conflict State-Building: The Case of Canada's RANA FM

2010 - Karen Moses; Major Research Paper: The security-rights dilemma and communications surveillance in Canada

2010 - Jackie Strecker; Thesis: Kapturing Kakuma: The Commodification of Refugees and Participatory Communication Alternatives

2009 - Lisa Goldberg; Major Research Paper: The hero's journey: tracing the history of the myth to the celebrity

2009 - Brianna Ames; Thesis: Women Building Peace: Participatory Development Communication, Strategies and the Peacebuilding Commission in Burundi: A Case Study

2009 - Lesley Williams; Thesis: Manoeuvring the peacekeeping myth: Canadian news media reports on the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan

2008 - Haide Hall; Thesis: Brand Jane - Finch: A critical discourse analysis of print media discourse on a Toronto low income community

2007 - Annamaria Aceto; Thesis: Italian Television in Toronto: Nostalgia, Community or Commodity?