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
- A philosophy of fashion through film : on the body, style, and identity /
- Picturegoers : a critical anthology of eyewitness experiences /
- Consuming the body : capitalism, social media and commodification /
- Muslims making British media : popular culture, performance and public religion /
- Humanity in a Black mirror : essays on posthuman fantasies in a technological near future /
- Anime's identity : performativity and form beyond Japan /
- Consuming crisis : commodifying care and COVID-19 /
- Screening #MeToo : rape culture in Hollywood /
- Contingency and plasticity in everyday technologies /
- Preparing for the global blackout : a disaster guide from TV and cinema /
- Aperture : life through a Fleet Street lens /
- American newspaper journalists on film : portrayals of the press during the sound era /
- The Bloomsbury handbook of popular music and youth culture /
- Alton's paradox : foreign film workers and the emergence of industrial cinema in Latin America /
- Constructing the outbreak : epidemics in media and collective memory /
- Owning the masters : a history of sound recording copyright /
- Access all areas : the diversity manifesto for TV and beyond /
- The new real : media and mimesis in Japan from stereographs to emoji /
- A new history of documentary film /
- Dislike-minded : media, audiences, and the dynamics of taste /
- Netflix recommends : algorithms, film choice, and the history of taste /
- Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia /
- Soundies and the changing image of Black Americans on screen : one dime at a time /
- Game : animals, videogames, and humanity /
- Screening the crisis : US cinema and social change in the wake of the 2008 crash /
- Making Sense of Cybersecurity.
- One thousand years of manga /
- The semiotics of architecture in video games /
- Underground : the secret life of videocassettes in Iran /
- Liquidity, Flows, Circulation : The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization /