Philippa Adams is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research focus is the way audiences in the age of social media interact with, talk about, and understand popular culture, particularly film and television. Pippa holds a BA in Political Science from UVic and an MA in Communication from SFU. Her Master’s thesis examined the production process on the television series Battlestar Galactica. Pippa works as the Research Manager at the GeNA Lab where she manages a range of quantitative and qualitative research projects.
Blockchain is an emerging technology that communication scholars have recently started investigat... more Blockchain is an emerging technology that communication scholars have recently started investigating. It is a protocol for a decentralized, digital ledger that facilitates peer-to-peer value transfers of all sorts. Scholars and thought leaders across various disciplines have framed it as a revolutionary technology, potentially disruptive on a global scale—or, from a continuum perspective, as the fifth computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the internet, and mobile/social networking. Due to its short history and the burgeoning interest in blockchain across academia and industry, a number of the books and papers in this entry are from other fields such as law, business, or information studies. They are included here because they either inform issues in our field or offer related avenues for communication researchers to integrate into their research agendas. Research on some of the underlying elements of the technology goes back decades. However, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the firs...
We examine the television show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) through interviews with creative people... more We examine the television show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) through interviews with creative people working on the show to illustrate the production context of the show and the science fiction (sf) genre. Media scholars suggest sf stories are critical stories about our political systems and our anxieties about new technologies, social change, race, gender, class, and religious conflicts. We investigate constraints and agency in the production of BSG as a site of critical cultural commentary and the politics of racial and gender representation in the series. We find that the creators behind BSG struggle with the moral and political nature of the stories they create, within the constraints of power, social structures, and a neoliberal economy and in doing so actively participate in their own acts of meaning-making in the production process.
Blockchain is an emerging technology that communication scholars have recently started investigat... more Blockchain is an emerging technology that communication scholars have recently started investigating. It is a protocol for a decentralized, digital ledger that facilitates peer-to-peer value transfers of all sorts. Scholars and thought leaders across various disciplines have framed it as a revolutionary technology, potentially disruptive on a global scale—or, from a continuum perspective, as the fifth computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the internet, and mobile/social networking. Due to its short history and the burgeoning interest in blockchain across academia and industry, a number of the books and papers in this entry are from other fields such as law, business, or information studies. They are included here because they either inform issues in our field or offer related avenues for communication researchers to integrate into their research agendas. Research on some of the underlying elements of the technology goes back decades. However, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the firs...
We examine the television show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) through interviews with creative people... more We examine the television show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) through interviews with creative people working on the show to illustrate the production context of the show and the science fiction (sf) genre. Media scholars suggest sf stories are critical stories about our political systems and our anxieties about new technologies, social change, race, gender, class, and religious conflicts. We investigate constraints and agency in the production of BSG as a site of critical cultural commentary and the politics of racial and gender representation in the series. We find that the creators behind BSG struggle with the moral and political nature of the stories they create, within the constraints of power, social structures, and a neoliberal economy and in doing so actively participate in their own acts of meaning-making in the production process.
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