In this episode of the Lockdown podcast, host Julia Cawthorn speaks with and Rebecca about their experiences as Asian women in Canada amid a wave of anti-Asian violence in North America and on enduring stereotypes of race and gender surrounding Asian women.

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Julia is a recent graduate from �Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies Honours program with a minor in business. She is interested in reading, researching and reflecting on how societal and cultural events impact identity formation through the intersections of class, gender, sexuality and race. As a marginalized woman and transracial adoptee, she hopes to bring awareness to the struggles of assimilation others in this community may face. Outside of her studies and work in strategic communications, Julia enjoys staying active outside and can be found planning her next vacation destination.

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Listen to the first episode of the new podcast Pandemic Personally, in which Aidan Battley meets with people who tell unique and unconventional stories to inspire us in the middle of a pandemic.

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Aidan Battley is a fourth-year Bachelor of Communications and Media Studies student at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, and aspiring communications and marketing professional. He has previously worked on multiple media and research projects, most recently as a Vancouver Canucks Reporter for The Hockey Writers. He currently is stationed as a Communications and Marketing Manager for CMBA-BC out in Vancouver, British Columbia, and enjoys spending time with his dogs.

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What was it like to be a Chinese international student when COVID-19 broke out? Mozzi Li, a Chinese student in Canada, shares her experience of racism and her crippling fear of being targeted amid rising anti-Asian sentiments.

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Mozzi Li is a fourth-year university student in Communication and Media Studies at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.

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Calista Davis is a university student with two minimum wage jobs and an immense amount of debt. In this podcast, she speaks about her experience surviving through COVID_19. When the world has pointed the finger at the people in their twenties for spreading the disease, young people such as Calista have actually had no choice but to leave home.

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Calista Davis is a fifth year student in Communication and Media Studies at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.

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Following Covid-19, post-secondary institutions have found themselves in a race to adapt to COVID’s rippling impact through their educational systems. The new changes have induced many uncertainties and challenges for students. Through her position as the VP Community Engagement for CUSA at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, Morgan Mckeen shares in this podcast an insider view of students’ main concerns in the new academic environment.

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Morgan McKeen is a fourth year communication student at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.

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Over the past two months, demonstrations have gripped the streets of Portland in outrage over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd. The demonstrations have intensified after federal law enforcement officers were dispatched to halt the protests. Sid Boegman in this podcast looks at state violncee against the protestors in Portland and what this violence implicates in “the whitest big city in America”.

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Sid Boegman is a fourth-year student in Communication and Media Studies at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. Recently, he’s been researching the relationship between self-branding and deception in digital dating. He works in digital marketing.

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What happens if you suddenly become disabled and unable to work and earn a living?

That’s what recently happened to 19-year-old ‘Jess’ after he was seriously injured in a cycling accident. With a concussion and broken collar bone, Jess, who was formerly healthy and fit, was suddenly forced to do something he never expected to have to.

I asked him to share what went into his decision about applying for social assistance, and whether it changed what he had previously thought about other people who are also on welfare.

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ALiGN Media Lab founder and director Merlyna Lim was interviewed by Dr. Jemma Purdey from Talking Indonesia in a podcast on . Please click the link below to listen.

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As part of a new ongoing series, “The Poverty Report: Systems, Narratives, and People,” Kathy Dobson recently sat down with two women, who have lived with poverty, and asked them two questions: What are some of the common misconceptions people seem to have about those living with poverty? What do you wish you could say to them?

Here’s what they had to say:

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Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media & Global Network Society, delivers her Public Inaugural Lecture: at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University on November 6^th, 2014. Lim makes the point that social media is neither the harbinger of social movements and social change nor just a passive and neutral medium. People and social media are both inseparable in the making of contemporary social movements. Instead of making rushed judgements that attribute the cause of social movements and uprisings with social media, she suggests that we must explore the deeper offline historical contexts that reside in the past. Movements such as the Arab Springs and protests in Hong Kong are not solely created online or offline, but rather through the flows and interconnectivity between both spaces. Social transformations take time, which the immediacy of social media does not always address. See more in a of Merlyna Lim’s lecture, , accompanying her presentation.

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