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From Stage to Nation: Our PhD scholar explores the cultural power of Canadian hometown concerts

Cooling's research argues that hometown concerts are powerful cultural events where music, media, and policy intersect to shape shared memory and actively construct Canadian identity. The roar of a hometown crowd becomes a story about memory, identity, and the enduring power of shared experience.

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Professor Natasha Tusikov’s book explores ‘datafied’ world

Professor Natasha Tusikov has co-written a book about the new “datafied” world, and how control over knowledge has become its own ideology. The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) is a guide to and analysis of today’s knowledge-driven society.

Immersive audio experience takes listeners into the drug overdose crisis

Professor Brenda Longfellow worked with Darkfield, a U.K. theatre company specializing in immersive audio, and Crackdown, a monthly podcast covering the drug war through the eyes of drug user activists, to produce Intravene to plunge listeners into the heart of the overdose crisis in Vancouver.

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