This guide is designed to help you get started with your Communication research. Find books, journal articles, and additional research resources available to you at SFU Library.
Contact info
If you need help, please contact Sylvia Roberts, Liaison Librarian for Communication & Contemporary Arts at 778.782.3681 or sroberts@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian
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I'd be happy to hear from you by email, especially if you have a question about research for a CMNS course or one that can be addressed by finding an appropriate information source.
If we need to have a more in-depth conversation, we can schedule that at a time and platform that works for both of us. Email me to discuss!
Help with course assignments
100 level
200 level
- CMNS 201 Empirical Methods for Communications Research [Chris Jeschelniki) (updated: Spring 25)
- CMNS 210 Media History (Cait McKinney) (updated: Fall 24]
- CMNS 230 The Cultural Industries in Canada: Global Context (Sarah Ganter) (updated: Spring 25)
300 level
- CMNS 362 Evaluation Methods for Applied Communication Research (Jan Marontate) (updated: Spring 25)
Graduate research
- CMNS 800 (Vancouver) Contemporary research in Communication studies (updated: Jan 25)
- CMNS 801 (Burnaby) Design and methodology in Communication research (updated Jan 25)
New Communication books
- Mindless : the human condition in the age of artificial intelligence /
- Disability studies : an interdisciplinary introduction /
- Crisis cultures : narratives of Western modernity in the digital age /
- The heat and the fury : on the frontlines of climate violence /
- The cinema of extractions : film materials and their forms /
- Chris Marker : early film writings /
- Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist /