John Shiga

John Shiga is an Associate Professor in the School of Professional Communication at in The Creative School where he teaches courses on urban media, cross-cultural communication, knowledge translation, science communication, and communication for social change. He has published widely in the fields of media studies, legal studies, sound studies and environmental humanities. His publications engage with a range of topics including intellectual property, the history of audio media, musical memory, media and the environment, intellectual interspecies communication, and risk media. His current SSHRC-funded project combines archival research, media archeology and research-creation to explore the political histories of underwater sound, ocean science, nuclear imperialism and environmental sensing infrastructures.

Recent publications

Sibo C., Shiga, J. & Sher, C. (2023). Understanding anti-Asian racism from communication perspectives: Insights from a rapid literature review. Canadian Journal of Communication, 48(1), 163-174. https://cjc.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjc.2022-0066

Shiga, J. (2022). Audible oceans: Sonar through the lens of Ursula Franklin’s ‘Technological Society’ [Short film]. In Kanishka Sikri, Katie Mackinnon & Leslie Regan Shade (Eds.), What Would Ursula Franklin Say? [The McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology Research Working Group: Reprising the Real World of Technology]. Humanities Commons. https://reprisingtherealworld.hcommons.org/what-would-ursula-franklin-say-collection/

Shiga, J. (2021). Sonic Saturation and Militarized Subjectivity in Cold War Submarine Films. In Melody Jue & Rafico Ruiz (eds.), Saturation: An Elemental Politics (pp. 105-122). Duke University Press.

Sample of ComCult Supervised Projects:

2022 - Sara Esayas; MA thesis; "Portrayals of the Tigray War in Western News Media: The Framing of Ethnic Conflict in The Globe and Mail and The New York Times, 2020-21."