Pulse Lab at McMaster University

Pulse Lab members Dr. Paula Gardner and Jess Rauchberg are featured on the latest episode of the International Communication Association's Communicating for Impact podcast!

In conversation with USF Department of Communication Professor Dr. Patrice M. Buzzanell, Gardner and Rauchberg share their experiences as interdisciplinary researchers committed to feminist and crip media practices.

Listen to the episode below! ↩️

https://tinyurl.com/5pz45j4c

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Please join Pulse Lab on Friday, 12/9, for a virtual seminar with Dr. Rhoda Titilopemi Inioluwa Patrick, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulse Lab!

Dr. Patrick's talk, "Engaging social media tools for transformative education on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in South Africa: Lessons from the EFECT Project," shares emerging insights from her research with EFECT and participatory social media workshops hosted at Durban University of Technology.

The seminar will take place from 11 AM- 12 PM. Visit our Eventbrite page to register:

Pulse Talk with Dr. Rhoda Titilopemi Inioluwa Patrick (Friday 12/9/22) Join us for a virtual seminar with Dr. Rhoda Titilopemi Inioluwa Patrick, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulse Lab.

Three Pulse Lab at McMaster University members are featured in the Fall Issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience!

Co-edited by Pulse Director Dr. Paula Gardner and Dr. Sarah Kember, "Probing the System: Feminist Complications of Automated Technologies, Flows, and Practices of Every Day Life" provides rich critical feminist analyses of data, surveillance, and new media practices.

Gardner and Pulse's creative technologist, Stephen Surlin, are also highlighted in an image + text works article with Shu Lea Cheang ("3x3x6-- 9 Sq.m. and 6 surveillance cameras").

Pulse project and grants manager Jess Rauchberg's book review of André Brock's "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020) is also included in the issue.

You can access the issue here: https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/issue/view/2539

Dr. Selina Mudavanhu, Pulse Lab member and Assistant Professor in Communication Studies and Media Arts, at McMaster University, shares an update on the Mac I Stories project:

"This summer, Dr. Mudavanhu is convening digital storytelling workshops for racialized international students studying at McMaster University. These workshops - which take place online - are part of her project funded by the Arts Research Board that explores the abovementioned students’ experiences of being human in racialized bodies both on and off-campus. The first of two workshops took place on June 4, 2021, and was attended by students from countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean islands, and South Asia. In addition to introducing participants to the digital storytelling methodology, a lot of time was dedicated to sharing experiences. In preparation for the second workshop to be held in the first week of July 2021, students will decide on stories they want to tell, collect the visuals they want to use and download various open-source software."

Read more about Dr. Mudavanhu's work with digital storytelling projects here: https://bit.ly/2TVBkyo