Jarrett Cole is the Director of the Winnipeg School of Communication, as well as the Editor of its journal, Winnsox. With over two decades worth of experience in music and broadcast media production, he strives to share to his knowledge with his students to better aid them in navigating their everyday acoustic space, both in the classroom and at large. Learn more about Jarrett.
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Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying has escalated since the introduction of the Apple iPhone 4s in 2011. It shows no signs of slowing down. Media Literacy is perhaps best put to use in the classroom as a method for prevention of cyberbullying. -
Living in Harmony
Basil Johnston believes that stories are the ideal medium with which to convey Anishinaabe values to Western education systems, potentially reversing the damage done by Western Anthropologists who have continually misrepresented Indigenous people as having no concerns beyond mere survival. -
Marshall McLuhan and Cultural Studies
Media scholar Marshall McLuhan was one of the most famous Canadians of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that he was responsible for media becoming the subject of study that it is today, scholars working in the field of Cultural Studies have yet to acknowledge McLuhan’s ideas as being useful to their research. Meanwhile, Raymond Williams along with Richard Hogarth and E.P. Thompson are considered the founding fathers of Cultural Studies. With the arrival of the Internet in the 1990s, McLuhan’s theories on the nature of media were no longer ignored by academics, and they experienced a strong resurgence within the field of Media and Communication Studies and pop culture alike. -
Planned Obsolescence
Planned obsolescence is a modern business strategy that builds obsolescence into a product in order to limit its life span, effectively making consumers re-purchase the product over and over. -
Instant Visual Grammatica
A tetradic analysis of Instagram can be carried out to examine the defining characteristics and digital conventions of both the form and content of this extremely popular social media application. -
Negotiating Code
Television studies must now be expanded to include the screens associated with television, as TV appears to have escaped the confines of the domestic environment and gone public. -
Psychology, Enchantment, and the Fairy Tale
The social science of psychology, which developed fairly quickly in the early twentieth century, retrieves the fairy tale as an object of study in order to peer with greater depth into the human psyche. -
Little Red Riding Hood and Angela Carter
Carter had a longstanding interest in the classical fairy tales and folklore of Europe. Taking inspiration from Perrault’s “Little Red Cap,” she would ultimately produce a radio play, a short story, and a motion picture. -
Mosaic Perspectives on Experimental Film
Unlike the techniques relied upon by Hollywood directors, experimental film has the ability to use the visual symbolism of its components, which at times could be completely unrelated, to create an experience of a cohesive message, like a mosaic. -
Marshall McLuhan Lived Here
Marshall McLuhan Lived Here is a short documentary film about Marshall McLuhan that focuses on the time he spent in Winnipeg. Marshall spent approximately twenty years in the city before leaving to study at Cambridge with the New Critics.