Welcome To Communication Studies

Founded in 1965 as Communication Arts, The Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University was the first department to study the art of communication in Canada.

The Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs exploring a wide range of interests in media analysis, critique and creation. Central to its programs of study is the integration of knowledge based in the humanities and liberal arts, the social sciences, and media practice.

Our Faculty have established international reputations as researchers and creators. Our students are selected from amongst the very best of the applicants to our programs. And, our Alumni are amongst the leaders in their respective fields.

    • Communication Studies ranks among world’s best Communication Studies ranks among world’s best

      Concordia University’s renowned communication studies programs have clinched a spot in the top 100 such programs worldwide in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Two other disciplines broke through to the prestigious higher-education rankings’ top 150 while two others held their spot (jointly in one category) in that elite group. A sixth program also ranked in the global top 200 again this year.

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    • Conference – Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies Conference – Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies

      (May 8th - 11th, 2013) Hosted by the Mobile Media Lab in the Department of Communication Studies, the Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies conference has become an important means for understanding and analyzing contemporary social, geographic, economic and political practices. Mobilities research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the movement of people, goods and information creating distinct trajectories, flows, frictions and blockages: patterns of differential movement. The conference will further investigate topics such as social media and privacy, human rights and population migration, energy and sustainability, transportation and tourism, accessiblity and disability.

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    • Communication Studies Scholars Awarded New Research Chairs Communication Studies Scholars Awarded New Research Chairs

      Congratulations to Dr. Kim Sawchuk and Dr. Krista Geneviève Lynes, who have both recently been awarded new research chair positions. Dr. Sawchuk now holds a Concordia University Research Chair (Tier 1) in Mobile Media Studies, a first of its kind in Canada. Dr. Lynes is the new Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Feminist Media Studies and she will soon be running the Feminist Media Studio.

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    • Media Gallery: American Colour Media Gallery: American Colour

      (Feb. 7 - May 12, 2013) The Media Gallery in the Department of Communication Studies proudly presents American Colour, a two-channel film installation by artist Joshua Bonnetta, curated by Matt Soar. American Colour explores the history and aesthetic of the legendary, now obsolete, Kodachrome 16mm film stock. In part it documents a roadtrip from upstate New York (the birthplace of Kodachrome) to Kansas, home of the last Kodachrome processing facility. American Colour was itself part of the last batch ever to be developed there. The film is also a colour-field animation exploring the signature range of hues available in Kodachrome, and the soundtrack is inspired by the two violinists who invented Kodachrome in 1935.

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    • “Useful Cinema” Wins Society for Cinema and Media Studies Honour “Useful Cinema” Wins Society for Cinema and Media Studies Honour

      The Society for Cinema and Media Studies has awarded Useful Cinema (Duke University Press, 2011) an honorable mention in its 2013 Best Edited Collection Award competition. Useful Cinema was edited...

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    • Comms Productions Featured on Canal Savoir Comms Productions Featured on Canal Savoir

      Concordia has renewed its partnership with Canal Savoir, an educational television station that broadcasts in English and French to more than 4 million homes across Canada. This month, the station...

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