Nicolette Little, PhD
Pronouns: she/her
Contact
ATS Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts - Media Tech Studies (MTS)
- nklittle@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
feminist media studies gender-based violence activism social media manosphere memory
About
Dr. Nicolette Little (Ph.D., University of Calgary) teaches with the University of Alberta’s Media and Technology Studies program. Her research interests include contemporary media culture and digital activisms, feminist media interventions in gender-based violence (GBV), tech-facilitated violence, and mediated cultural memory. She advises the Canadian federal government, media, policing services, and non-profits regarding media and GBV. Her recent publications include “Social Media Ghosts: How Facebook (Meta) Memories Complicates Healing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence” (Feminist Media Studies, 2023) and “Memorial-tweeting Ontario’s femicides: The use of Twitter (X) in gender-based violence-related activism and commemoration” (Canadian Journal of Communication, 2024). Her full-length work, Memory Stones, Corpse Art, and Digital Media Activism: Multimedia Projects to Address Gender-Based Violence in Canada, is currently under contract by University of British Columbia Press.
Courses
MST 100 - Introduction to Media Studies
The discipline of Media Studies, how it has developed, its historical objects and contemporary tools of study, and how it contributes to our understanding of culture.
MST 210 - Contemporary Media Culture
Key topical and changing trends and issues in contemporary media culture. Prerequisite: MST 100.
MST 300 - Researching Media
A survey of research methods in media studies, including quantitative and qualitative methods, media archaeology, as well as practical forms of research creation. Prerequisite: MST 100.
Featured Publications
Nicolette Little
Canadian Journal of Communication. 2024 August; 49 (2):230-260 10.3138/cjc-2023-0010
Nicolette Little
Feminist Media Studies. 2023 November; 10.1080/14680777.2022.2149593
Nicolette Little
Feral Feminisms. 2019 January; 8
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