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Position

Associate Professor

Education

• PhD, Cultural Mediations (Carleton University)
• MA, Theory and Criticism (Western University)
• MA, English (Carleton University)
• BA, English (St. Thomas University)

Contact Information

• Office: AA 3009
• Telephone: (709) 864-8289
• Email: sthorne@mun.ca

Teaching and Research Interests

Critical Media Studies, Video Games, Copyright, genAI

Courses Regularly Taught

CMST 2100: Introduction to Game Studies
CMST 3002: AI & Society
CMST 4000: Advanced Communications Theory
CMST 4003: Copyright, Creativity, & Culture
CMST 4050: Critical & Experimental Media

Selected Publications

“.” Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 48, no. 1, 2023. 

“.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 24, no. 4, 2022 (2023), pp. 1-12. Special Issue: “Platform Psychoanalysis.”

“.” Eracle: Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, vol. 5, no. 2, 2022, pp. 33-48. Special Issue: “Media, Society and Cycling Cultures.”

“.” Eludamos, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, pp. 61–85. Special Issue: “Playfulness across Media.”

“.” Special Issue of Convergence, vol. 26, vo. 4, 2020, pp. 808–823. Special Issue: “Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies.”

“” in Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, edited by Jessica Aldred and Felan Parker, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018, pp. 353-375.

“.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, vol. 22, no. 1, 2017, pp. 106-113.

“The House of the Future: Mediating Open Enclosures.” Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique, 2014.