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.
What's new?
These days, due to COVID, my communication with researchers is usually via email, phone, Zoom and other platforms. Remember when we used to run into people on campus?
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 our mutual convenience.
Help with course assignments
100 level
- CMNS 110 (Burnaby) Introduction to Communication Studies (Daniel Ahadi) (updated: Oct 18)
- CMNS 130 (Burnaby) Communication and Social Change (Svitlana Matviyeko) (updated: Sept 18)
200 level
- CMNS 201 Empirical Methods for Communications Research [Chris Jeschelniki) (updated: Fall 22]
- CMNS 210 Media History (Cait McKinney) (updated: Fall 20]
- CMNS 220 Understanding Television (Zoe Druick) (updated: Spring 16)
- CMNS 230 The Cultural Industries in Canada: Global Context (Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte) (updated: Fall 22)
300 level
- CMNS 334 Cultural Policy research guide (updated: Fall 17)
- CMNS 362 Evaluation Methods for Applied Communication Research (Benjamin Anderson) (updated: Fall 22]
400 level
- CMNS 487 (Burnaby) Collective Memory and Public Discourse (Jan Marontate) (updated: Fall 15)
- CMNS 488 (Vancouver) Art Worlds (Jan Marontate) (updated: Fall 15)
Graduate research
- CMNS 800 (Vancouver) Contemporary research in Communication studies (updated: Jan 22)
- CMNS 801 (Burnaby) Design and methodology in Communication research (updated Jan 22)
New Communication books
- Playing while white : privilege and power on and off the field /
- Disability and the superhero : essays on ableism and representation in comic media /
- (Not) in the Game : History, Paratexts, and Games /
- Dance music : a feminist account of an ordinary culture /
- Abolishing Surveillance : Digital Media Activism and State Repression /
- What we see : women & nonbinary perspectives through the lens /
- The value gap : female-driven films from pitch to premiere /
- Anthropologies of entanglements : media and modes of existence /
- The Gutenberg parenthesis : the age of print and its lessons for the age of the internet /
- Memory, edited : taking liberties with history /
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet /
- Digital ethics : the issue of images /
- Data duped : how to avoid being hoodwinked by misinformation /
- Digital immigrants and media integration : the smartphone is the synthesizer /
- Gooey media : screen entertainment and the graphic user interface /