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Upcoming
and Ongoing Research
My
ongoing research aims at developing rational choices and strategies for
Canadian communication decision-makers to use when faced with various
potential transnational and internal terrorist situations.
The high level of stress experienced during times of terrorist attacks makes
the study of policy decision-making very important for assessing the effects
of that stress on policy decision-makers and for determining whether or not
they can act effectively.
Future
research will include the practical examination of a proposed theoretical
media decision-making model that may contribute to making the performance of
media decision-makers effective, as a consequence of being rational
and responsible. The model is prescriptive in nature and provides
recommended actions required for policy decision-makers to take in order to
understand what ought to be done during severe stress situations, and
consequently better achieve the sought goals.
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Current
Research
Expanding
women’s breast cancer activism in Venezuela.
This
project aims to contribute to the development of women’s capabilities to
expand the reach of breast cancer organizations in medium and small size
cities in Venezuela.
As a partnership between the Department of Communication at the
University of Ottawa and SenosAyuda, a Venezuelan breast cancer survivor
and volunteer association, this project will be the first step in a potential
long-term collaboration between the two organizations aiming at strengthening
women’s communication and advocacy in a developing country (Venezuela), and
fostering research on the role of communication in empowering civil society
associations.
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Selected
Previous Research
Review
of Evidence about Community Perceptions of National Security in Canada.
This
research project provides a literature review of the existing research on
perceptions of Canadians with various cultural backgrounds regarding issues of
national security, terrorism, and government policies. Specifically, this
review focuses on two points: how attitudes, opinions, and behaviours of
Canadians of various ethnicities have been affected by events and media
coverage related to terrorism; and how attitudes, opinions, and behaviours of
Canadians of various ethnicities have been affected by national security
measures in Canada. To help contextualize and compare these perceptions, this
review goes into further depth on what is known about perceptions in two
Canadian minority communities-Arabs and Muslims-alongside the majority
populations. Research shows these minority groups have been the most affected
by media coverage of terrorism and national security measures and government
policies. It also discusses perceptions of major terror events; mainly, the
Air India bombing, the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) crisis, the
listing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist
organization, Project Thread, the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on
United States (9/11), and the 2006 Toronto terrorism case.
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Research
on Settlement Programming through the Canadian Media. This research
project has aimed to assist Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) make
informed decisions in undertaking new pilot projects for the delivery of
settlement programming through the media. There are specific sets of
information that immigrants need for settling, adapting and integrating into
Canadian society with the purpose of becoming self-reliant and full
participants in the economic, social, political and cultural dimensions of
Canadian life. The research project has examined the settlement-related
content appearing in different types of mainstream and ethnic media in
Ontario, identified the gaps in the delivery of settlement media content and
provided recommendations to the CIC. The research has revealed numerous
problems with accessibility that are due to the design of information systems,
language, culture, literacy, technology, interactivity, and dissemination.
Qualitative and quantitative data collected in this project has uncovered
concerns about information being unreliable with respect to its
trustworthiness, veracity, completeness, source, continued availability and
timeliness.
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CBC’s
Depiction of Canadian Diversity. This 3-year quantitative and qualitative
content analysis study of CBC Television and CBC.ca’s depiction of Canadian
diversity has aimed to enable CBC employees and the personnel of production
companies, whose material is broadcast by the CBC, to gain better
understanding of how to improve the depiction of Canadian diversity.
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Muslim
Scholarship in Canada, the US and the UK. This research project aimed to
study responses in Canadian, American and British Muslim communities to the
work of diasporic Muslim intellectuals and the possible emergence of a
transnational diasporic reform agenda outside traditional Muslim lands. The
project has addressed the possible emergence of an intellectual movement that
could have an impact on Muslim and Western societies.
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