Patrick Mccurdy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 159366 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patrick Mccurdy |
| PRENOMES | Patrick |
| SOBRENOME | Mccurdy |
| ASSINATURA | MCCURDY P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5764-6174 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
From social awareness to authoritarian other
This study examines the evolution of (anti)woke discourse in debates within the Canadian House of Commons from 2019 to 2023, analyzing how “conceptual flipsiding” and moral panic operate to transform democratic language into tools of illiberal politics. Our critical discourse analysis of Hansard transcripts identifies three key themes: the semantic shift of woke from social awareness to authoritarianism, the strategic redefinition of woke by Cons…
Greenwashing, net-zero, and the oil sands in Canada
Net-zero plans, or the target of negating an organization's carbon emissions by 2050, have proliferated among large oil and gas companies. These plans have led to misleading and unverifiable claims to climate protection and have spurred concerns by researchers about greenwashing. This article examines net zero greenwashing using the case of Pathways Alliance, a coalition of six companies representing 95 % of oil sands production in Canada, one of…
The rise and fall of the Synthetic
The concept of the Synthetic is developed to trace and trouble the prevailing popular mythology of Alberta's oil sands and place the omnipresence of petro-hegemony into focus in a time of crisis and transition. The Synthetic is theorized as a period of petroculture beginning in the late 1960s with the rise of Alberta's oil sands industry together with a rise in oil sands narratives, docudrama, and the emergence of mediated or synthetic politics r…
Excavating CBC’s Docudrama The Tar Sands
This article examines the political controversy around the banned 1977 CBC docudrama _The Tar Sands_, which portrays the personal and political struggle of Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed to secure the Syncrude agreement to develop Alberta’s bitumen sands. Immediately following the docudrama’s broadcast, Lougheed launched a lawsuit which ultimately resulted in the show’s expulsion from CBC archives. While the CBC docudrama sought to dramatize and …
Envisioning energy futures in the North Atlantic oil industry
The oil industry is a focal point in discussions of climate change. However, environmental social science tends to view the oil sector as homogeneous in relation to climate change and energy futures. In this context, we ask: What is the range of energy futures that are envisioned and articulated through oil industry events in different operating regions? How do the energy futures articulated within oil industry events relate to issues of climate …
No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm
This study's exhaustive content analysis (N = 538) examines how Canada's mainstream news media covered the nascent yellow vest movement from the first Canadian protests in December 2018 culminating in the February 2019 cross-country United We Roll convoy. We demonstrate that Protest Paradigm scholarship does not offer a useful analytic for understanding the coverage of this right-wing social movement whose tactics were banal and law abiding. Furt…
Mediatization and the Absence of the Environment
Mediatization remains a key concept for theorizing how our ever-evolving and intensifying media and communications environment underwrites and (re)constructs our social world, yet the socio-ecological effects of mediatization processes remain relatively unacknowledged within this research field. However, mediatization must be conceptualized as a cogent process whose impact extends beyond the confines of the “media environment” to the natural envi…
Fanning Flames of Discontent
This chapter offers a case study of the May 2018 #keepcanadasflame as a case study to examine the role and power of social media in the campaigning practices of Canada’s fossil fuel lobby. Of particular interest is the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)’s use of “soft leadership” and its invocation of emotive, affect-laden discourse as a means to mobilise a specific, targeted publics. This shift to winnable publics highlights a tr…
From the Natural to the Manmade Environment
Background This article uses basic thematic content analysis (n = 80) and qualitative visual analysis to examine how still advertisements produced by Canada’s oil sands industry changed between 2006 and 2015.Analysis The article argues that early industry advertisement campaigns had a strong environment focus with the objective of linking industry’s interest in oil with a visual commitment to preserving, reclaiming, and restoring the natural envi…
From the Natural to the Manmade Environment
Background This article uses basic thematic content analysis (n = 80) and qualitative visual analysis to examine how still advertisements produced by Canada’s oil sands industry changed between 2006 and 2015. Analysis The article argues that early industry advertisement campaigns had a strong environment focus with the objective of linking industry’s interest in oil with a visual commitment to preserving, reclaiming, and restoring the natural env…
Protest Camps in International Context
From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in recent waves of contentious politics, deployed by movements with wide-ranging demands for social change. Through a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies from five continents, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transce…
Protest Camps in International Context
Media events and cosmopolitan fandom
Academic literature on media events is increasingly concerned with their global dimensions and the applicability of Dayan and Katz’s theoretical concept in a post-national context. This article contributes to this debate by exploring the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) as a global media event. In particular, we employ a perspective from ‘inside the media event’, drawing upon empirical material collected during the 2014 Eurovision final in Copenhage…
The ghost in the news room
Domestic journalists covering Kenya’s 2013 General Election worked in an exceptionally challenging media environment; one which was significantly shaped by the 2007 election and post-election violence (PEV). Rooted in literature on peace journalism (PJ), we examine how the PEV of Kenya’s 2007 presidential elections informed and shaped journalists’ practice around the 2013 Kenyan General Election. The article is based on qualitative interviews wit…
The Sound of Silence
Public service broadcasting (PSB) across the world is in crisis. This article examines how, if at all, normative academic ideals of public service broadcasting inform discussion about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canadian news media. The researchers undertook a quantitative ( N = 467) and qualitative ( n = 29) content analysis of five years of Canadian news media coverage about the CBC published between January 1, 2009, and Apri…
Protest Camps and Repertoires of Contention
Protest camps have become a prominent feature of the post-2010 cycle of social movements and while they have gripped the public and media's imagination, the phenomenon of protest camping is not new. The practice and performance of creating protest camps has a rich history, which has evolved through multiple movements, from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-war. However, until recently, the history of the protest camp as part of the repertoire of social move…
Mediation and Protest Movements
Protest Camps
Recently protest camps have emerged around the world as a highly visible form of protest. Part and parcel of new social movement activism for over 40 years, they are important sites and catalysts for identity creation, expression, political contention and incubators for social change. While research has punctually addressed individual camps, there is lack of comparative and comprehensive research that links historic and contemporary protest camps…
Connecting Participant Observation Positions
In this article, we argue for the importance of considering participant observation roles in relation to both insider/outsider and overt/covert roles. Through combining key academic debates on participant observation, which have separately considered insider/outsider and overt/covert participant observation, we develop a reflexive framework to assist researchers in (1) locating the type of participant observation research; (2) identifying implica…
From the Pentagon Papers to Cablegate
Amy Goodman in conversation with Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek
The following is a shortened and edited transcript of a conversation between Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, and Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist. The conversation was moderated by journalist Amy Goodman from the TV news show Democracy Now! and sponsored by the Frontline Club. It took place in front of a live audience on July 2, 2011 at the Troxy, London, England. These keywords were added by machine and not…
From the Pentagon Papers to Cablegate
On November 28, 2010, WikiLeaks, in partnership with five international media “partners” — the Guardian (UK), the New York Times, Der Spiegel (Germany), El Pa ís (Spain), and Le Monde (France) — began the coordinated public release of a cache of classified diplomatic cables that would become known as Cablegate. It was the largest leak of classified documents in American history. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This pr…
Protest Camps
From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world. They are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state. Drawing on over fifty different protest camps from around the world over the past fifty years, this book offers a ground-…
Mediation, practice and lay theories of news media
Studying Social Movements
The research method of participant observation has long been used by scholars interested in the motivations, dynamics, tactics and strategies of social movements from a movement perspective. Despite participant observation being a common research method, there have been very few efforts to bring together this literature, which has often been spread across disciplines. This makes it difficult to identify the various challenges (and their interrela…
Social Movements, Protest and Mainstream Media
This article provides a broad, cross‐disciplinary overview of scholarship which has explored the dynamics between social movements, protests and their coverage by mainstream media across sociology, social movement studies, political science and media and communications. Two general approaches are identified ‘representational’ and ‘relational’ research. ‘Representational’ scholarship is that which has concerned itself with how social movements are…
Protest Camps
Recently protest camps have emerged around the world as a highly visible form of protest. Part and parcel of new social movement activism for over 40 years, they are important sites and catalysts for identity creation, expression, political contention and incubators for social change. While research has punctually addressed individual camps, there is lack of comparative and comprehensive research that links historic and contemporary protest camps…
Beyond WikiLeaks
The 2010 release of US embassy diplomatic cables put WikiLeaks into the international spotlight. Revelations by the leaks sparked intense debate within international diplomacy, journalism and society
Protest Camps and Repertoires of Contention
Protest camps have become a prominent feature of the post-2010 cycle of social movements and while they have gripped the public and media's imagination, the phenomenon of protest camping is not new. The practice and performance of creating protest camps has a rich history, which has evolved through multiple movements, from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-war. However, until recently, the history of the protest camp as part of the repertoire of social move…
Towards a Method for studying Affect in (micro)Politics
This paper begins with a brief review of existing social movement scholarship on the \nstudy of affect that can be applied to protest camps. We then introduce our \nCampfire Chats methodology and describe its operationalisation through pilot \nruns in Ottawa and Montreal. Following from this, we move into a discussion of \nfindings arising from this first set of Campfire Chats to explore the roles affect plays \nin specific acts of ‘building toge…
No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm
This study's exhaustive content analysis (N = 538) examines how Canada's mainstream news media covered the nascent yellow vest movement from the first Canadian protests in December 2018 culminating in the February 2019 cross-country United We Roll convoy. We demonstrate that Protest Paradigm scholarship does not offer a useful analytic for understanding the coverage of this right-wing social movement whose tactics were banal and law abiding. Furt…
Connecting Participant Observation Positions
In this article, we argue for the importance of considering participant observation roles in relation to both insider/outsider and overt/covert roles. Through combining key academic debates on participant observation, which have separately considered insider/outsider and overt/covert participant observation, we develop a reflexive framework to assist researchers in (1) locating the type of participant observation research; (2) identifying implica…
Media events and cosmopolitan fandom
Academic literature on media events is increasingly concerned with their global dimensions and the applicability of Dayan and Katz’s theoretical concept in a post-national context. This article contributes to this debate by exploring the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) as a global media event. In particular, we employ a perspective from ‘inside the media event’, drawing upon empirical material collected during the 2014 Eurovision final in Copenhage…
Conceptualising celebrity activists
Research into celebrity and environmentalism has largely focused on studying how someone who is already famous – who is a 'celebrity' – uses this status to advance an activist agenda. However, there is a second category of celebrity activist which has, thus far, largely been overlooked. Inspired by Street (2004), this article considers the conceptual utility of differentiating between the celebrity activist (CA1) – defined as an entertainer or ot…
The King is dead, long live the King
The untimely death of Michael Jackson and the ensuing media spectacle which surrounded it affords a productive opportunity to interrogate our understanding of contemporary media culture and ‘media
Envisioning energy futures in the North Atlantic oil industry
The oil industry is a focal point in discussions of climate change. However, environmental social science tends to view the oil sector as homogeneous in relation to climate change and energy futures. In this context, we ask: What is the range of energy futures that are envisioned and articulated through oil industry events in different operating regions? How do the energy futures articulated within oil industry events relate to issues of climate …
The ghost in the news room
Domestic journalists covering Kenya’s 2013 General Election worked in an exceptionally challenging media environment; one which was significantly shaped by the 2007 election and post-election violence (PEV). Rooted in literature on peace journalism (PJ), we examine how the PEV of Kenya’s 2007 presidential elections informed and shaped journalists’ practice around the 2013 Kenyan General Election. The article is based on qualitative interviews wit…
Mediatization and the Absence of the Environment
Mediatization remains a key concept for theorizing how our ever-evolving and intensifying media and communications environment underwrites and (re)constructs our social world, yet the socio-ecological effects of mediatization processes remain relatively unacknowledged within this research field. However, mediatization must be conceptualized as a cogent process whose impact extends beyond the confines of the “media environment” to the natural envi…
Studying Social Movements
The research method of participant observation has long been used by scholars interested in the motivations, dynamics, tactics and strategies of social movements from a movement perspective. Despite participant observation being a common research method, there have been very few efforts to bring together this literature, which has often been spread across disciplines. This makes it difficult to identify the various challenges (and their interrela…
Capitalising on the plasticity of impartiality
This article focuses on the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) decision to deny a request to air a Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal for Gaza in January 2009. The BBC argued that airing the appeal would threaten its impartiality. Despite the centrality of impartiality to the BBC, the concept's meaning is anything but unequivocal. An exploration of a media offensive, which BBC executives launched in response to public outrage over the dec…
Journalism education as a vehicle for media development in Africa
This overview is based on data obtained from a wider analysis of the state of media development in Africa – the African Media Development Initiative (AMDI). The analysis draws on a sample of university lecturers and department heads of mass communication, media and journalism studies from across 17 countries to explore key developments in the media sector and the impact of these changes on their field of expertise – journalism training. A key fin…
From social awareness to authoritarian other
This study examines the evolution of (anti)woke discourse in debates within the Canadian House of Commons from 2019 to 2023, analyzing how “conceptual flipsiding” and moral panic operate to transform democratic language into tools of illiberal politics. Our critical discourse analysis of Hansard transcripts identifies three key themes: the semantic shift of woke from social awareness to authoritarianism, the strategic redefinition of woke by Cons…
Greenwashing, net-zero, and the oil sands in Canada
Net-zero plans, or the target of negating an organization's carbon emissions by 2050, have proliferated among large oil and gas companies. These plans have led to misleading and unverifiable claims to climate protection and have spurred concerns by researchers about greenwashing. This article examines net zero greenwashing using the case of Pathways Alliance, a coalition of six companies representing 95 % of oil sands production in Canada, one of…
The rise and fall of the Synthetic
The concept of the Synthetic is developed to trace and trouble the prevailing popular mythology of Alberta's oil sands and place the omnipresence of petro-hegemony into focus in a time of crisis and transition. The Synthetic is theorized as a period of petroculture beginning in the late 1960s with the rise of Alberta's oil sands industry together with a rise in oil sands narratives, docudrama, and the emergence of mediated or synthetic politics r…
A threat to impartiality
In January 2009, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) denied a request from the Disaster’s Emergency Committee (DEC) to broadcast an emergency appeal to relieve human suffering in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli ground offensive ‘Cast Lead’. The decision marked the first time in the over 40-year relationship between the two organisations that a request was refused by the BBC, but an appeal went ahead. BBC Executives argued that airing the a…
Journalism education as a vehicle for media development in Africa
This overview is based on data obtained from a wider analysis of the state of media development in Africa – the African Media Development Initiative (AMDI). The analysis draws on a sample of university lecturers and department heads of mass communication, media and journalism studies from across 17 countries to explore key developments in the media sector and the impact of these changes on their field of expertise – journalism training. A key fin…
The King is dead, long live the King
The untimely death of Michael Jackson and the ensuing media spectacle which surrounded it affords a productive opportunity to interrogate our understanding of contemporary media culture and ‘media
The Fragility of Dissent
Informed by ethnographic methods, this article takes a case study approach to the protests of the Dissent! network at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 Summit. Of interest is how activists anticipated, understood and reflexively navigated the ‘mediated opportunity’ and shifting media dynamics of the G8 Summit. The analysis focuses largely on the representational reverberations of the July 7th, 2005 London bombings (7/7 bombings) on Dissent! protests. It is …
The ‘story’ in a risk society
This article argues that one way the ‘story’ has changed is that it has become a source of potential ‘risk’ (Beck 1992; Giddens 1990) for media organizations operating in a globalized media environment. Through applying a ‘risk’ perspective to the practice of journalism, this article argues that the news story is not only a site where risk is represented and contested but also a source of risk for journalists and media organizations. This concept…
Capitalising on the plasticity of impartiality
This article focuses on the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) decision to deny a request to air a Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal for Gaza in January 2009. The BBC argued that airing the appeal would threaten its impartiality. Despite the centrality of impartiality to the BBC, the concept's meaning is anything but unequivocal. An exploration of a media offensive, which BBC executives launched in response to public outrage over the dec…
Social Movements, Protest and Mainstream Media
This article provides a broad, cross‐disciplinary overview of scholarship which has explored the dynamics between social movements, protests and their coverage by mainstream media across sociology, social movement studies, political science and media and communications. Two general approaches are identified ‘representational’ and ‘relational’ research. ‘Representational’ scholarship is that which has concerned itself with how social movements are…
A threat to impartiality
In January 2009, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) denied a request from the Disaster’s Emergency Committee (DEC) to broadcast an emergency appeal to relieve human suffering in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli ground offensive ‘Cast Lead’. The decision marked the first time in the over 40-year relationship between the two organisations that a request was refused by the BBC, but an appeal went ahead. BBC Executives argued that airing the a…
From the Pentagon Papers to Cablegate
Amy Goodman in conversation with Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek
The following is a shortened and edited transcript of a conversation between Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, and Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist. The conversation was moderated by journalist Amy Goodman from the TV news show Democracy Now! and sponsored by the Frontline Club. It took place in front of a live audience on July 2, 2011 at the Troxy, London, England. These keywords were added by machine and not…
From the Pentagon Papers to Cablegate
On November 28, 2010, WikiLeaks, in partnership with five international media “partners” — the Guardian (UK), the New York Times, Der Spiegel (Germany), El Pa ís (Spain), and Le Monde (France) — began the coordinated public release of a cache of classified diplomatic cables that would become known as Cablegate. It was the largest leak of classified documents in American history. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This pr…
Protest Camps
From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world. They are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state. Drawing on over fifty different protest camps from around the world over the past fifty years, this book offers a ground-…
Mediation, practice and lay theories of news media
Studying Social Movements
The research method of participant observation has long been used by scholars interested in the motivations, dynamics, tactics and strategies of social movements from a movement perspective. Despite participant observation being a common research method, there have been very few efforts to bring together this literature, which has often been spread across disciplines. This makes it difficult to identify the various challenges (and their interrela…
Towards a Method for studying Affect in (micro)Politics
This paper begins with a brief review of existing social movement scholarship on the \nstudy of affect that can be applied to protest camps. We then introduce our \nCampfire Chats methodology and describe its operationalisation through pilot \nruns in Ottawa and Montreal. Following from this, we move into a discussion of \nfindings arising from this first set of Campfire Chats to explore the roles affect plays \nin specific acts of ‘building toge…
Beyond WikiLeaks
The 2010 release of US embassy diplomatic cables put WikiLeaks into the international spotlight. Revelations by the leaks sparked intense debate within international diplomacy, journalism and society
Conceptualising celebrity activists
Research into celebrity and environmentalism has largely focused on studying how someone who is already famous – who is a 'celebrity' – uses this status to advance an activist agenda. However, there is a second category of celebrity activist which has, thus far, largely been overlooked. Inspired by Street (2004), this article considers the conceptual utility of differentiating between the celebrity activist (CA1) – defined as an entertainer or ot…
Mediation and Protest Movements
Protest Camps
Recently protest camps have emerged around the world as a highly visible form of protest. Part and parcel of new social movement activism for over 40 years, they are important sites and catalysts for identity creation, expression, political contention and incubators for social change. While research has punctually addressed individual camps, there is lack of comparative and comprehensive research that links historic and contemporary protest camps…
Connecting Participant Observation Positions
In this article, we argue for the importance of considering participant observation roles in relation to both insider/outsider and overt/covert roles. Through combining key academic debates on participant observation, which have separately considered insider/outsider and overt/covert participant observation, we develop a reflexive framework to assist researchers in (1) locating the type of participant observation research; (2) identifying implica…
The Sound of Silence
Public service broadcasting (PSB) across the world is in crisis. This article examines how, if at all, normative academic ideals of public service broadcasting inform discussion about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canadian news media. The researchers undertook a quantitative ( N = 467) and qualitative ( n = 29) content analysis of five years of Canadian news media coverage about the CBC published between January 1, 2009, and Apri…
Protest Camps and Repertoires of Contention
Protest camps have become a prominent feature of the post-2010 cycle of social movements and while they have gripped the public and media's imagination, the phenomenon of protest camping is not new. The practice and performance of creating protest camps has a rich history, which has evolved through multiple movements, from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-war. However, until recently, the history of the protest camp as part of the repertoire of social move…
Protest Camps in International Context
From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in recent waves of contentious politics, deployed by movements with wide-ranging demands for social change. Through a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies from five continents, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transce…
Protest Camps in International Context
Media events and cosmopolitan fandom
Academic literature on media events is increasingly concerned with their global dimensions and the applicability of Dayan and Katz’s theoretical concept in a post-national context. This article contributes to this debate by exploring the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) as a global media event. In particular, we employ a perspective from ‘inside the media event’, drawing upon empirical material collected during the 2014 Eurovision final in Copenhage…
The ghost in the news room
Domestic journalists covering Kenya’s 2013 General Election worked in an exceptionally challenging media environment; one which was significantly shaped by the 2007 election and post-election violence (PEV). Rooted in literature on peace journalism (PJ), we examine how the PEV of Kenya’s 2007 presidential elections informed and shaped journalists’ practice around the 2013 Kenyan General Election. The article is based on qualitative interviews wit…
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