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Nicole Neverson

Nicole Neverson

Media & Culture
DepartmentSociology (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Areas of Expertiserepresentation of subjectivities in the mass media; socio-cultural aspects of sport and gender; use of force technologies and policing; the social construction of 'risk' and risk narratives; alternative media perspectives of Canadian Caribbean disaspora.
https://www.torontomu.ca/sociology/people/faculty/nicole-neverson/

Dr. Neverson’s research is grounded in the areas of mass media analysis, the mediated representation of marginalized groups, and sociological aspects of sports. Her most recent publication examines how Canadian perspectives on CEWs (conducted energy weapons), and their use by police, changed before and after the death of Robert Dzeikanski. Another recent work examines the complex and competing diaspora media discourses constructed around blackness as identity via the Toronto Africentric Alternative School. In addition to her research interests in media and sport, Dr. Neverson has engaged in a collaborative project with department colleagues exploring the integration of critical pedagogy in teaching and learning at Ryerson entitled, Inhabiting Critical Spaces: Teaching and Learning from the Margins at Ryerson University (2013).

Recent Publications

Neverson, N. 2020. "Cracked ice: Winter, Canada, whiteness and the politics of sports" in Seasonal Sociology (external link)  (pp. 173-190), edited by T. Davidson & O. Park. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Neverson, N. and C. Adeyanju. 2018. Worth a Thousand Words: Tasers, new media events, and narrative struggle (external link) , Journalism Studies 19(11): 1633-1651. 

Oriola, T., H. Rollwagen, N. Neverson and C.T. Adeyanju. 2016. Public support for conducted energy weapons: Evidence from the 2014 Alberta Survey.,  (external link) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 58(4): 530-564.

Neverson, N. 2014. The Toronto Africentric Alternative School: Media, Blackness, and Discourses of Multiculturalism and Critical Multiculturalism.,  (external link) International Journal of Communication 8: 1851-1871.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2019 - Francesco Collura; Major Research Paper: Come Out or Remain Silent: Sport and Gendered Homophobia

2019 - Nicholas Wong; Thesis: “I Haven’t Done Anything To Be Polarizing”: Framing Anti-Black Themes Through Racial Magnetism In Jeremy Lin Media Discourse

ComCult Teaching Activities

  • CC 8836 Selected Topics in Media and Culture - Sports, Race and Gender