Jennifer Reid is a consultant and researcher with the Winnipeg School of Communication, and a contributor to its journal, Winnsox. Her abiding passion is exploration of the interconnections between language, media, and identity. She has lectured and presented at universities around the world on topics focusing on the media and communications. Learn more about Jennifer.
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Academic Writing and ChatGPT
What’s to be done? A comprehensive guide to university writing assignments and assessment in a world with ChatGPT. -
Generation AI Coda
This instalment, “Coda: A Political Question of the First Order,” concludes the three-part article series, “Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis.” It invites us to step, individually and in community, into our creative, ethical, and political power for the active shaping of AI in the present—for our common future. -
Generation AI Part 3
This article is the third instalment in a three-part series, “Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis,” exploring the social cultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting humans today. Part 3, “I have Studied Language, Behold How Humane I am,” analyzes the relational aspect of AI use and abuse as it meets with the human need for connection and communication—the backdrop against which humans are being evaluated on a coevolutionary path with AI. -
Generation AI Part 2
This article is the second instalment in a three-part series, Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis, exploring the sociocultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting human today. Part 2, “Redefining Success,” examines how the neurobiological effects of AI are changing definitions of AI success, and shaping its development and deployment. -
Generation AI Part 1
This 3-part article series explores the sociocultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting humans today. PART 1, “Saving Celeste,” examines the social and cultural pressures represented by the Google x Douglas Coupland project, “Slogans for the Class of 2030.” -
Reconciling the Past
Protesters in Winnipeg topple a statue of Queen Victoria, putting an end to the reign of Canada’s Nineteenth Century. -
Hashtags, Digital Blanks, and Social Justice
The power of the #hashtag as a digital blank is equal to that of the printed blank in its ability to configure identities. What is the special place of social-justice complexes like #BlackLivesMatter and #DefundThePolice in the world of the digital blank? -
The New Crisis in Higher Education
Canadian universities are on the front lines as an essential service equipping Canadians to face the demanding realities of the new world of work. However, they are now facing financial setbacks from Manitoba’s backward approach to crisis management. -
Open-ended Questions
There’s nothing like an open-ended question to get the conversation going. So how do we make sure a question is open-ended? Easy. It’s all encoded in the syntactical structure of our query. For teachers, the open-ended question is half the battle. -
Why Study English? Language, Literature, and Digital Economies
English studies has many benefits, but reading in a digital age requires different approaches to build the bridges that were once commonplace in the world of learning.