Shana MacDonald
Associate Professor, Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
Shana MacDonald's research examines contemporary and historical feminisms across social and digital media, popular culture, cinema, performance, and public art. MacDonald is the PI for SSHRC funded Insight Development Grant 'The Personal is Aesthetic: The Formal Politics of Feminist Film and Media" (2018-2020). MacDonald is also an internationally curated artist who explores the community-building potential of creative practice through her work with the qcollaborative (www.qcollaborative.com), a feminist design lab dedicated to developing new forms of relationality through digital technologies and public performance. She is currently running a campus-wide initiative to amplify stories of student's lived experiences a Gender Equity Grant under the HeforShe Impact 10x10x10 program at the University of Waterloo. https://www.feminist-think-tank.com/
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Shana MacDonald's research examines contemporary and historical feminisms across social and digital media, popular culture, cinema, performance, and public art. MacDonald is the PI for SSHRC funded Insight Development Grant 'The Personal is Aesthetic: The Formal Politics of Feminist Film and Media" (2018-2020). MacDonald is also an internationally curated artist who explores the community-building potential of creative practice through her work with the qcollaborative (www.qcollaborative.com), a feminist design lab dedicated to developing new forms of relationality through digital technologies and public performance. She is currently running a campus-wide initiative to amplify stories of student's lived experiences a Gender Equity Grant under the HeforShe Impact 10x10x10 program at the University of Waterloo. https://www.feminist-think-tank.com/
ADDITIONAL TITLES AND AFFILIATIONS
- qCollaborative
- Feminists Do Media
Global News
Feminists Do Media/qCollaborative
The UNHINGED feminist podcast seeks to take the hinges off the doors of media technologies and create holes in those walls to walk on through. We’re working at the intersections of intersectional, queer, and trans feminisms to take up the current state of media technologies. Current technologies and digital cultures are overflowing with forms of misogyny that promote intimidation, harassment, and shocking amounts of violence online. Under these conditions, feminists working online are challenging gender discrimination and promoting renewed visions of feminist politics in the public sphere. In this podcast, we think through “Digital Feminism” as an important site for what feminists can offer, as well as the exclusions that can happen under the fourth-wave feminist banner. This podcast thinks through how to co-opt the functions of technologies via an interventionist mode of exploratory knowledge production that does not have a predetermined, tangible deliverable––a feminist design hack. We’re taking on all the media we love, and all the media we love to critique.
CTV
On air and digital interview segments
The Scott Thompson Show
Thanksgiving virtual diners during a pandemic
CTV News with Melissa Couto Zuber
Can virtual Thanksgiving dinners be meaningful? Experts say we can adapt traditions
The Morning Show with Devon Peacock, 980 CFPL
Social Media and Covid messaging
The Scott Thompson Show, CHML 900
How to reach youth demographic with Covid Messaging
Global News with Rachel D'Amore
Why Social Media is a ‘missed opportunity’ as coronavirus spreads among young people
The Conversation
Global News with Noor Ibrahim
The Community Edition with Melissa Embury
A Love of One's Own with Jessica Mazze
CTV News with with Melissa Couto Zuber
The Globe And Mail with Elizabeth Renzetti
Let's laud Harry and Meghan for their act of self-care -- and then leave them alone
CTV News with Melissa Couto Zuber
The Waterloo Chronicle with Mike Farwell
The Record with Catherine Thompson
The Charlatan with Nehaa Bimal
University of Waterloo
Spice Radio Vancouver
570 News
The Morning Show with Mike Stafford
Beyond the Bulletin
Beyond the Bulletin
VIEWS from Venus with Mary Churchill
640 Toronto Radio with Alan Carter
Books
By Shana MacDonald, Milena Radzikowska, Michelle MacArthur, Brianna Wiens
Published by Lexington Press
By Paul Long, Beth Johnson, Shana MacDonald, Schem Rogerson Bader, Tim Wall
Published by Routledge
By Brianna Wiens, Shana MacDonald, Michelle MacArthur, Milena Radzikowska
Published by Lexington Press
Research
Published by Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Published by Canadian Theatre Review, UofT Press
Published by Media Theory Journal 1.2
Published by Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Published by Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Published by Leisure Sciences Special Issue: Leisure in the time of coronavirus
Published by Feminist Media Studies
Published by Cinéma&Cie
Published by NECSUS: European Journal of Media
Published by Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published by MAI: Feminism and Visual Culutre Special Issue: Embodying Feminist Discourse in Comics and Graphic Novels
BFA
in Image ArtsRyerson University
MA
in Cinema and Media StudiesYork University
PhD
in Communication and CultureYork University
Global News
Feminists Do Media/qCollaborative
The UNHINGED feminist podcast seeks to take the hinges off the doors of media technologies and create holes in those walls to walk on through. We’re working at the intersections of intersectional, queer, and trans feminisms to take up the current state of media technologies. Current technologies and digital cultures are overflowing with forms of misogyny that promote intimidation, harassment, and shocking amounts of violence online. Under these conditions, feminists working online are challenging gender discrimination and promoting renewed visions of feminist politics in the public sphere. In this podcast, we think through “Digital Feminism” as an important site for what feminists can offer, as well as the exclusions that can happen under the fourth-wave feminist banner. This podcast thinks through how to co-opt the functions of technologies via an interventionist mode of exploratory knowledge production that does not have a predetermined, tangible deliverable––a feminist design hack. We’re taking on all the media we love, and all the media we love to critique.
CTV
On air and digital interview segments
The Scott Thompson Show
Thanksgiving virtual diners during a pandemic
CTV News with Melissa Couto Zuber
Can virtual Thanksgiving dinners be meaningful? Experts say we can adapt traditions
The Morning Show with Devon Peacock, 980 CFPL
Social Media and Covid messaging
The Scott Thompson Show, CHML 900
How to reach youth demographic with Covid Messaging
Global News with Rachel D'Amore
Why Social Media is a ‘missed opportunity’ as coronavirus spreads among young people
The Conversation
Global News with Noor Ibrahim
The Community Edition with Melissa Embury
A Love of One's Own with Jessica Mazze
CTV News with with Melissa Couto Zuber
The Globe And Mail with Elizabeth Renzetti
Let's laud Harry and Meghan for their act of self-care -- and then leave them alone
CTV News with Melissa Couto Zuber
The Waterloo Chronicle with Mike Farwell
The Record with Catherine Thompson
The Charlatan with Nehaa Bimal
Books
By Shana MacDonald, Milena Radzikowska, Michelle MacArthur, Brianna Wiens
Published by Lexington Press
By Paul Long, Beth Johnson, Shana MacDonald, Schem Rogerson Bader, Tim Wall
Published by Routledge
By Brianna Wiens, Shana MacDonald, Michelle MacArthur, Milena Radzikowska
Published by Lexington Press
Research
Published by Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Published by Canadian Theatre Review, UofT Press
Published by Media Theory Journal 1.2
Published by Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Published by Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Published by Leisure Sciences Special Issue: Leisure in the time of coronavirus
Published by Feminist Media Studies
Published by Cinéma&Cie
Published by NECSUS: European Journal of Media
Published by Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published by MAI: Feminism and Visual Culutre Special Issue: Embodying Feminist Discourse in Comics and Graphic Novels
BFA
in Image ArtsRyerson University
MA
in Cinema and Media StudiesYork University
PhD
in Communication and CultureYork University
LOCATION
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada