Dr. Faiza Hirji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University. Her research interests include media representation of race, religion, ethnicity and gender, use of media in the construction of identity, and the importance of media within diasporic/transnational communities. Her book, Dreaming in Canadian: South Asian Youth, Bollywood and Belonging, was published in 2010 by UBC Press. Along with Sikata Banerjee and Rina Verma Williams, Faiza recently co-edited a special issue of Global Media Journal – Canadian Edition on Bollywood, Power and Politics. She is also the co-editor (with Yasmin Jiwani and Kirsten McAllister) of a forthcoming special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication on the topic of racism and colonialism in Canadian communication studies. She is currently working on a project about media representation of Muslim women. In 2022, she was elected Vice President of the Canadian Communication Association.

Dr. Faiza Hirji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University. Her research interests include media representation of race, religion, ethnicity and gender, use of media in the construction of identity, and the importance of media within diasporic/transnational communities. Her book, Dreaming in Canadian: South Asian Youth, Bollywood and Belonging, was published in 2010 by UBC Press. Along with Sikata Banerjee and Rina Verma Williams, Faiza recently co-edited a special issue of Global Media Journal – Canadian Edition on Bollywood, Power and Politics. She is also the co-editor (with Yasmin Jiwani and Kirsten McAllister) of a forthcoming special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication on the topic of racism and colonialism in Canadian communication studies. She is currently working on a project about media representation of Muslim women. In 2022, she was elected Vice President of the Canadian Communication Association.

Dr. Sara Bannerman, Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at McMaster University in Canada.  She researches and teaches on communication policy and governance.  She has published two books on international copyright: International Copyright and Access to Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Struggle for Canadian Copyright: Imperialism to Internationalism, 1842-1971 (UBC Press, 2013), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on international copyright, privacy, and other topics in new media, traditional media, and communications theory. Bannerman leads McMaster’s Communications Governance Observatory.

Dr. Sara Bannerman, Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at McMaster University in Canada.  She researches and teaches on communication policy and governance.  She has published two books on international copyright: International Copyright and Access to Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Struggle for Canadian Copyright: Imperialism to Internationalism, 1842-1971 (UBC Press, 2013), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on international copyright, privacy, and other topics in new media, traditional media, and communications theory. Bannerman leads McMaster’s Communications Governance Observatory.

Dr. Sherry S. Yu is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her research explores multiculturalism, media, and social integration. She is the author of Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora: Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles (2018, UBC Press) and the co-editor of Ethnic Media in the Digital Age (2019, Routledge) and The Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press). Her research also has been published in scholarly journals such as Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Journalism Studies, Television & New Media, Canadian Journal of Communication, Journal of Global Diaspora & Media, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Canadian Ethnic Studies. 

Dr. Sherry S. Yu is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her research explores multiculturalism, media, and social integration. She is the author of Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora: Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles (2018, UBC Press) and the co-editor of Ethnic Media in the Digital Age (2019, Routledge) and The Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press). Her research also has been published in scholarly journals such as Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Journalism Studies, Television & New Media, Canadian Journal of Communication, Journal of Global Diaspora & Media, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Canadian Ethnic Studies.