Tanner Mirrlees
PhD
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Dr. Mirrlees is a political economist of digital technologies and the creative and entertainment industries.
Contact information
Bordessa Hall
- Room 312
Downtown Oshawa
55 Bond Street East
Oshawa, ON
905.721.8668 ext. 5852
Research areas
- Global political economy of communications
- Creative and entertainment industries
- Digital media platforms and cultural policy
- Work and labour in the digital age
- Persuasion, public relations and propaganda
- Political and strategic communication
- War, media and conflict
- Social media and society
- New media and activism
- The social shaping of technology
- Critical theory
- Sustainable energy
- Environmental communication
- Green digital technology
- EdTech industry
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Courses taught
- Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Globalization
- Entertainment Goes Global
- Global Media Industries
- Globalization and the Global Media
- International Relations and Communication
- Public Diplomacy as Communication: From the United States to the World
- Introduction to Communication Studies
- Mass Communication
- Information & Society
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Power, Technology and Social Change
- Communication, Technology and Culture
- Popular Technologies and Cultural Practice
- Television as Communication and Culture
- Subcultures and the Mainstream Media
- Work in the Digital Age / Work and Labour in the Creative Industries
- Watching, Analyzing and Making Media, for Digital Media Literacy
- The Military Publicity State: Cultural Industries Go to War
- War, Propaganda and Media Culture
- Digital Media, Politics and Democracy
- Theories of the State
- Canadian Foreign Policy
