David Skinner

Politics & Policy

DepartmentCommunication Studies (York)

Areas of Expertisepolitical economy of communication; media and communications policy; alternative and community media; media democracy

https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/skinnerd/

Recent Publications

2016 Gasher, Mike, David Skinner & Rowland Lorimer. Mass Communication in Canada, Eighth Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press

2011 Kirsten Kozolenko, Patricia Mazepa, and David Skinner (Eds.) Alternative Media in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press

2011 Gasher, Mike, David Skinner & Rowland Lorimer. Mass Communication in Canada, Seventh Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

2005 Skinner, David, James Compton, and Mike Gasher (Eds.), Converging Media, Diverging Interests: A Political Economy of News in the United States and Canada. Lexington Books.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2019 - Scott Baird; Major Research Paper: Public Sphere Disruption: Public Service Broadcasting and the CBC at the Digital Crossroads

2013 - Renee Robinson; Major Research Paper: Political Expediency vs. Policy Directive: A Case Study of Telecommunications in Jamaica and the Move Towards an Integrated Regulator

2011 - Jordana Lobo-Pires; Major Research Paper: Book Publishing in Canada, 1945-2010: Ownership and Control of the Canadian Market

2011 - Christopher Mejaski; Major Research Paper: Promoting CanCon in the Age of New Media

2010 - Sharmeen Khan; Thesis: Amplifying Action Oriented Media Pedagogy: Identity, access and social change in community radio

2007 - Isabel Macdonald; Thesis: Covering the coup: Canadian news reporting, journalists, and sources in the 2004 Haiti Crisis