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Lorna Roth

Female

E-Mail: l.roth@sympatico.ca
Telephone: (001) 514-848-2424 ext. 2545

Interests: Diversity / Inclusion, Representation of Minorities
Role(s): Researcher
Location(s) of Work: Canada

Current Institutional Affiliation(s)

Communication Studies
Concordia University

Montreal, Canada
Concordia University
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Biography

BA, Sociology, Sir George Williams University MA, Communications, McGill University PhD, Communications, Concordia University, Montreal Teaching Interests: Media and Minorities, Neo Colonial Theory and "Development," Race, Representation, & Technologies, International Communication, Indigenous Television and Media History, Mediating Oral Histories, Oral History as Cultural Performance, Civic Journalism. I am currently involved in a major interdisciplinary SSHRC-funded Community University Research Alliance (CURA) project on Oral Life Stories of Refugees Displaced to Montreal due to genocide, abuse, human rights violations. It is a project run out of the Public History sector of the History Department. I have two roles in the project: co-ordinating and facilitating radio dissemination of our research for the next 4 years and researching the (in)visibility of the human face in the personal and mediated testimonial.

Publications and Resources

Books

Lorna Roth. Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

Book Chapters

Lorna Roth. "(re)Colouring the Public Broadcasting System in Canada: A Case Study of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network." In Community Media: International Perspectives (Aboriginal/ Indigenous Experiences, Current Case Studies, Virtual Community Visions). Linda K. Fuller (ed.) Sage Publications, 2007.

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