VIU Media Studies Faculty
Media Studies Faculty
Posted on Door each semester.
My general areas of interest aside from the obvious around computers and Apple systems are weather, gardening and local food and energy production, and all manner of science-y stuff.
I run a weather website in Port Alberni at http://www.alberniweather.ca, I'm also part of a Transition Towns group in Port Alberni which is focused on building resiliency and local food and energy resources in the face of peak oil and climate change, our website is at www.patransitions.net (which uses the very cool social networking software "NING")
You will most likely run into me when you take DIGI 110. I'm the lab instructor for DIGI 110 so a big part of my role in Media Studies is to help students through the technology in that course.
Outside of DIGI110 though I help all of our students and faculty with any technology related needs. Whether you have an Apple or PC, running iMovie or Final Cut Pro with an old VHS tape or a new HD camerae, you can come to me for help.
My office is always open and my email is always available.
Intersession Office Hours: By appointment (alanna.williams@viu.ca)
Women and technology
Educational technology
Instructional/Interaction design
User Interface Design
Web Development
Project Management
Spring 2012
Nanaimo Campus
Mondays & Wednesdays 11.30-12pm
Thursdays 5-6pm
Duncan campus
Mondays & Wednesdays 3-3.30pm
Marian van der Zon has been a media activist, writer, musician, and involved in radio for ten years, hosting shows and contributing sound art and radio documentary pieces to CBC Radio 1, campus/community radio, WINGS, on pirate radio stations, and at numerous sound festivals including DeepWireless (2004, 2009), Paved Arts and CFCR: This City is a Radio (2006) and Voices on the Edge: 5th Annual Women in New Music (2006). She founded a low power radio station (TAR: Temporary Autonomous Radio) in 2003 and co-edited the anthology, Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada. Her written work has also been published online, in journals, thesis publications, magazines (online and print), newspapers, and in books. A project examining gender in relation to sound production has been featured on the website of, "In and Out of the Studio," and her work on pirate radio has been published in Autonomous Media (Cumulus, 2005) & its French translation, in Social Anarchism, and in Canadian Women in Radio (forthcoming). She teaches in the Media Studies and Women’s Studies departments at Vancouver Island University and plays in the band Puzzleroot.
- Audio production (documentary, sound art, music, radio theatre, multi-media)
- Radio (with a special focus on unlicensed radio)
- Introductory web design & video editing
- History of communication
- Women & media
- Leadership
- Community engagement
- Social justice
My current research focuses on developing a theory of invisibility. All too often we get caught up in the binary of seeing - invisibility is the stuff we can't see. Instead, I've begun to think about invisibility as a process that falls well outside of the simple binary of seeing.
My research also looks at the intersection of technology and the structures of society and how we negotiate the world with and through media. I am a critical theorist with a PhD in Communication and Cultural Studies and I believe strongly in mixing theory with practice and experiential education.
I teach in both the MEDI and DIGI streams, online & in-class.
My main teaching so far has included:
- Media & Audience
- Introductory Media/Communication Studies
- Television & Society
- Game Theory & Analysis
- Emerging Digital Communication
- Propaganda, Persuasion & Promotion
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 - 11:00,
Thursdays, 12:00 - 13:00
My main research interest lies in the live generation and processing of audio. This has application in music, theatre, radio, multimedia performance... But the same techniques used to process all those digital audio samples can of course be applied to text, images, and dynamic web design, so I do those things too. I also do production and post-production sound for film, and shoot my own images now and then. Every once in awhile, I pick up my Double Bass. But overall, I like helping computers make art, and working with other people to foster creativity through technology.
Web Production, Video Production, Motion Media, Project Management, Programming
www.carlos.pixelgrafx.net
