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, Communication and Digital Media Studies Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, recently had several scholarly articles published.

• Abstract: Over the past decade, Xi Jinping’s one-party China and Vladimir Putin’s petro-nationalist Russia have weaponized entertainment to build popular support for wars. But the United States is the globe’s most significant centre for ‘militainment’ (or, military-themed entertainment that is made by media corporations with assistance from military publicity offices). To show how the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) uses ‘militainment’ for imagining (and waging) future warfare, Dr. Mirrlees’ book contextualizes the United States’ military-corporate futurism industry, the DoD’s genre of dystopian futurism, and the DoD’s new partnership with science fiction writers.

• Abstract: This article considers the growing media power and influence of China in the global South through the lens of a critical media imperialism framework derived from the geopolitical economy of communications research tradition. While extensive research exists on U.S. media imperialism and the challenge to it posed by China’s global media rise, the idea of China as a media imperialist in its own right has received limited attention. This article addresses this gap in the field by summarizing ten key postulates of a media imperialism framework for critical research on China’s media power and influence in the global South. This article study does not seek to prove China’s status as a new media imperialist power or provide a detailed case study of China’s media imperialism in a specific country. Instead, it synthesizes the ten postulates of a media imperialism framework, examines China’s corporate and state media organizations in relation to these, and draws from relevant scholarship, evidence, and anecdotes. The article argues that each postulate can serve as a foundation for future case studies of different facets of China’s media power and influence in countries across the global South. These postulates can be refined, disproven, or expanded through further research. By considering China’s media power and influence through the lens of the media imperialism framework, this article aims to stimulate further meta-theory, empirical research, and scholarly debates on this pivotal topic, which while contentious, is significant to the future of the global South, and the wider world system.

• Book description: This book, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content. Looking at a wide swath of the world, these authors show the emergence of transnational collaboration in global television and film production across national borders that seem to transcend national cultures and identities. At the same time, traditional class analysis of such phenomena is reframed within the rise of myriad social movements for equality, democracy, human rights, and defense of the environment. What are the effects of media, local or global? Does the West continue to dominate or is cultural imperialism waning? With original chapters written by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, this book will appeal to students and scholars interested in global media communication, cultural studies, and international political economy.