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Robert A Hackett

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E-Mail: hackett@sfu.ca
Telephone: (604)291-3863
Personal website: http://www.sfu.ca/~hackett/

Interests: Journalism, Social Movements and Sectors, Media Reform Movement, Civil Society
Role(s): Researcher
Location(s) of Work: Canada

Current Institutional Affiliation(s)

School of Communication
Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, BC, Canada

Professor

Discipline(s)

Communications
Political Science

Biography

Prof. Hackett has taught in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University since 1984. From 1993 to 2003, he co-directed NewsWatch Canada, a news media monitoring project based at SFU. Prof. Hackett is on the editorial board of Journalism Studies. He has conducted numerous media interviews and public talks, written policy briefs, and has helped to found several community-based media action and education initiatives, including Vancouver's annual Media Democracy Day.

Publications and Resources

Books

William K Carroll, Robert A Hackett. Remaking media: The struggle to democratize public communication. Routledge, 2006
Yuezhi Zhao, Robert A Hackett. Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005

Journal Articles

Robert A Hackett, William K Carroll. Democratic Media Activism Through the Lens of Social Movement Theory. Media, Culture & Society. 2006.
Robert A Hackett, Jackie Stewart, Scott Uzelman. Covering Democracy's Forum: Canadian Press Treatment of Public and Private Broadcasting. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2005. http://www.metapress.com/link.asp?id=nv3vm23826k30k7k
William K Carroll, Robert A Hackett. Critical social movements and media reform. Media Development. 2004. http://www.sfu.ca/~hackett/CriticalSocialMovements.htm
Robert A Hackett. Taking Back the Media: Notes on the Potential for a Communicative Democracy Movement. Studies in Political Economy. 2000. http://www.sfu.ca/~hackett/takingbackthemedia.html
Robert A Hackett, Megan Adam. Is Media Democratization a Social Movement?. Peace Review. 1999.

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