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The Department of Art History and Communication Studies welcomes , Assistant Professor, Concordia University, to speak at our annual lecture series (follow this link for a complete list of this year's speakers).

Title: "Newspapers and the Intermedial Imaginary"

Abstract: Though the endless speculation in contemporary print journalism and blogs might suggest otherwise, the dilemma of technological convergence and the problems that it poses for print newspapers are not new. History is rife with moments when newspapers colonized or adopted nascent communications technologies in the effort to remain relevant and competitive, only to find themselves transformed in the process. Drawing from a range of examples from newspapers, I will discuss what I鈥檓 calling an intermedial imaginary 鈥� moments when the newspaper envisioned ways that it could hybridize with other communications technologies in order to extend its significance as a cultural and economic entity, and to re-envision the process of communication itself through the forging of affective ties with its audience. What鈥檚 at stake is the possibility of gaining an historically informed view on what a recent Harper鈥檚 cover story declared the 鈥淔inal Edition鈥� of contemporary print newspapers.

Biography: Sandra Gabriele is Assistant Professor at Concordia University. She specializes in the study of journalism history and women鈥檚 journalistic practices in Canada. Her current project (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), with Paul S. Moore, traces the history of the weekend newspaper in the United States and Canada as a key site of the emergence of popular culture and the mass public. Their first results looked at the emergence of special weekend editions in Toronto: 鈥淭he Globe on Saturday, The World on Sunday,鈥� in the Canadian Journal of Communication (2009). Her research has appeared in Aether, Journalism Studies, and Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.