The Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) Playlists are curated by scholars to address a title, theme, or topic of their choosing and to create inventive alignments among published work that is openly accessible in our archive. Click through on the playlist titles that interest you. If you are interested in curating a playlist, scroll down to find the guidelines or contact Chris Russill ([email protected]) for more information.
Published Playlists
Annals of Promotional Culture by Melissa Aronczyk
Annals of Communication and Disabilities by Yukari Seko
Curating Care by Rianka Singh
Ghost by Kate Maddalena
Solidarity by Jason Hannan
Photography by Bethany Berard
Play by Christine Tran
(Not) Environmental Media by Crystal Chokshi
Upcoming Playlists
TV by Mark Hayward
Terrorism by Aziz Douai
Knowledge by Karim Karim
Horror by Miranda Brady
Work by Nicole Cohen
Radio & Media Theory by Andrew Herman
Psychoanalysis by Sarah Thorne
Interested in curating a CJC Playlist?
If you are interested in creating a playlist, please read these guidelines and contact Chris Russill, Editor, Canadian Journal of Communication, at [email protected] to discuss a title and timeline for your contribution.
The CJC Playlist is an invitation to a scholar to organize a bundle of articles from the CJC archive around a selected theme and to introduce these articles as a collection worthy of attention in the contemporary moment. The introduction might include a general reflection on developments in this thematic area or sub-field over time, or it could emphasize some specific points of synthesis for scholars to consider. Individual articles can be annotated from the perspective of the selected theme, as in some of the examples found above.
We hope to encourage historical sensibility, inventive alignments among articles from different issues and moments in time, as well as critical discussion about key themes and developments in the field.
We also hope to encourage greater awareness and use of our archive—which is open access, easily searchable, and non-commercially owned—and to have a little fun in doing so!
A playlist should include approximately five to eight articles, make some mention of the criteria/sensibility used to select these pieces from the broader collection, and involve a reasonably broad search of the archive (the search function on the CJC website is quite good, so this is not an onerous task). Ideally, the bulk of the articles will be five-plus years old. Otherwise, the principles and method of choosing articles is left to the curator of the playlist. The length of the introduction can vary, but 1,000 words is our general guideline. The title should be brief and thematic. Please follow the format of the published examples found above.
