Sandra Robinson
Associate Professor and Graduate Supervisor
| Building: | Richcraft Hall, Room 4316 |
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Biography
Dr. Robinson holds a PhD in Sociology from Queen鈥檚 University, an MA in Legal Studies (杏吧原创 University), an MBA in digital technology management (Royal Roads), and a BA in Anthropology (University of Alberta). She is the recipient of two teaching awards, Teaching Achievement Award (2017) and Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Fellowship (2017-2019) and the co-author of听Law鈥檚 Expression: Communication, Law and Media in Canada听(2019).
Current Research
Dr. Robinson鈥檚 research and teaching interests include communication, culture, and regulation, gender and media, algorithm studies and artificial intelligence, platform studies, and social media data methodologies. Dr. Robinson is available to supervise graduate students working in areas that may include any of those dimensions.
Dr. Robinson is co-investigator on a 5-year, SSHRC Insight grant,听Populist Publics: Memory, Populism, and Misinformation in the Canadian Social Mediascape, which examines how divisive far-right narratives and disinformation enter and circulate on social platforms.
Selected publications
2024 Platformed misogyny in Depp v Heard: #justiceforjohnny and networked defamation, Feminist Media Studies, with co-author Emily Hiltz
2022 Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights.听Canadian Journal of Communication听47(1), 197鈥�218.
2022 Cases and Traces, Platforms and Publics: Big Data and Health Surveillance. In听Communication and Health, eds. J. Greenberg and C. Elliott (Palgrave).
2019听Law鈥檚 Expression: Communication, Law and Media in Canada, Second Edition, LexisNexis, with co-author Sheryl N. Hamilton.
2019 A platform approach to experiential learning. Data literacy and technical skills development,听NETCOM: R茅seaux, communication et territoire, 33(1-2).
2018听Doppelg盲ngers and databases: New articulations of power.听Configurations听26.
2016听The Vital Network: An Algorithmic Milieu of Communication and Control,听Communication +1听(5)