Pulse Lab at McMaster University

06/12/2023

Pulse Lab members Dr. Paula Gardner and Jess Rauchberg are featured on the latest episode of the International Communication Association's Communicating for Impact podcast!

In conversation with USF Department of Communication Professor Dr. Patrice M. Buzzanell, Gardner and Rauchberg share their experiences as interdisciplinary researchers committed to feminist and crip media practices.

Listen to the episode below! ↩️

https://tinyurl.com/5pz45j4c

05/15/2023

We're hiring!

Pulse Lab is excited to circulate our Postdoctoral fellowship in Aging, Digital Spaces, and Social Interaction with the ABLE (Aging, Art/Tech, longevity) project at Pulse Lab, McMaster University. Application review begins May 19th, 2023, and will continue until the position is filled. Click on the link for more information. Please share in your networks!

https://pulselab.humanities.mcmaster.ca/postdoctoral-fellow-position-available-able-project/

04/21/2023

Check out our new look! We've revamped our website-- follow along for updates on Pulse projects and lab members.

What do you think? Let us know below!

https://pulselab.humanities.mcmaster.ca

03/30/2023

SAVE THE DATE! Join us next week for Pulse Lab member and CSMA Assistant Professor Dr. Selina Mudavanhu's public lecture on digital storytelling, race, and African Ph.D. student experiences.

The lecture is on Tues, 4/4 from 2:30-3:30 PM in LRW 2001. See you there!

02/24/2023

Join us next week on Wednesday, March 1 at 5 PM for a discussion on Black student experiences and digital storytelling!

Pulse member Dr. Selina Mudavanhu and the 20/20 Hindsight team will share their work in L.R. Wilson Hall (Humanities Concert Hall). Light refreshments will be served.

12/06/2022

Please join Pulse Lab on Friday, 12/9, for a virtual seminar with Dr. Rhoda Titilopemi Inioluwa Patrick, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulse Lab!

Dr. Patrick's talk, "Engaging social media tools for transformative education on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in South Africa: Lessons from the EFECT Project," shares emerging insights from her research with EFECT and participatory social media workshops hosted at Durban University of Technology.

The seminar will take place from 11 AM- 12 PM. Visit our Eventbrite page to register:

Join us for a virtual seminar with Dr. Rhoda Titilopemi Inioluwa Patrick, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulse Lab.

06/07/2022

McMaster university announces funding for displaced faculty and students. Scholar (Visiting, post-doc) fund applications accepted all year. Grad/undergrad applicants must be first admitted to a program to access student at risk fund-- January 2023 entry possible- contact admissions for info. https://global.mcmaster.ca/forciblydisplaced/.
Also: scholars whose research addresses gender, technology, media, and/or social justice invited to contact me and/or Pulse Lab, to discuss possible research opportunities.
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10/27/2021

Three Pulse Lab at McMaster University members are featured in the Fall Issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience!

Co-edited by Pulse Director Dr. Paula Gardner and Dr. Sarah Kember, "Probing the System: Feminist Complications of Automated Technologies, Flows, and Practices of Every Day Life" provides rich critical feminist analyses of data, surveillance, and new media practices.

Gardner and Pulse's creative technologist, Stephen Surlin, are also highlighted in an image + text works article with Shu Lea Cheang ("3x3x6-- 9 Sq.m. and 6 surveillance cameras").

Pulse project and grants manager Jess Rauchberg's book review of André Brock's "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020) is also included in the issue.

You can access the issue here: https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/issue/view/2539

09/20/2021

In recognition of National Truth and Reconciliation Day, September 30, 2021, Pulse Lab members are hopeful that our community will take the opportunity to join in recognitions and trainings offered by Indigenous communities regarding the history and impact of residential schools, treaty obligations, and other crucial issues, in Ontario and across Turtle Island.

Our colleagues at the McMaster Indigenous Studies Program have recommended resources offered by the Woodland Cultural Center, including a vitural residential school tour.

Read more here: https://pulselab.humanities.mcmaster.ca/.

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09/07/2021

Congratulations to the McMaster University Minding My Mobility Project (M3), on their new publication in the Canadian Journal on Aging/La R***e canadienne du vieillissement!

Special thanks to Mac Professors Marla Beauchamp and Brenda Vrkljan for their leadership of this manuscript.

To read the full abstract and article: https://bit.ly/2X7jl9Y

06/17/2021

In response to acts of violence across Canada over the past month, Pulse Lab has released a solidarity statement:

"We are committed to amplifying Indigenous sovereignty, religious freedoms, and justice-informed approaches to community transformation. Pulse Lab stands in solidarity with Indigenous, Muslim, South Asian, q***r organizations at McMaster University and beyond to dismantle networks of oppression."

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3xuVeP6

06/09/2021

Dr. Selina Mudavanhu, Pulse Lab member and Assistant Professor in Communication Studies and Media Arts, at McMaster University, shares an update on the Mac I Stories project:

"This summer, Dr. Mudavanhu is convening digital storytelling workshops for racialized international students studying at McMaster University. These workshops - which take place online - are part of her project funded by the Arts Research Board that explores the abovementioned students’ experiences of being human in racialized bodies both on and off-campus. The first of two workshops took place on June 4, 2021, and was attended by students from countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean islands, and South Asia. In addition to introducing participants to the digital storytelling methodology, a lot of time was dedicated to sharing experiences. In preparation for the second workshop to be held in the first week of July 2021, students will decide on stories they want to tell, collect the visuals they want to use and download various open-source software."

Read more about Dr. Mudavanhu's work with digital storytelling projects here: https://bit.ly/2TVBkyo