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Culture Industry Emma Cosman Culture Industry Emma Cosman

Popular Culture, Representation, and Ingenuity: Or Why Inside Out 2 Isn’t an Original Take on Anxiety.

Inside Out 2 gave audiences every beat of a classic Pixar film- perhaps its biggest praise comes from its genuine and ground-breaking portrayal of anxiety in a children’s film. As with any piece of popular culture, the question prevails as to whether this ground-breaking representation is truly the first of its kind to be represented, or if it’s just exactly what its cultural category denotes it as: popular.

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Career Conversations Erica Park Career Conversations Erica Park

Career Conversations - Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association & Simon Fraser University

Seleena Thandi is a SFU alumni of Spring 2024 with a major in Communication. With her co-op experiences that allowed her to explore different aspects of the communication field, she shares  the value of stepping out of your comfort zone and embracing opportunities for both professional and personal growth.

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Reviews Kofi Abrefah Reviews Kofi Abrefah

Uncut Gems

Uncut Gems is The Wolf of Wall Street for gamblers. Kofi reviews an incredibly inspirational movie.

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Career Conversations Erica Park Career Conversations Erica Park

Career Conversations — Joaquin Suarez

It's the best time to make mistakes while you’re still a student. Take as many risks and opportunities as possible – one right decision is all you need.” Joaquin Suarez is a SFU alumni who graduated in Fall 2023 with an honours degree in Communication. With co-op experience, extracurricular involvement and a collection of memorable learning experiences, Joaquin shares his journey from graduation to landing a position as a Communications Coordinator at Fraser Health Authority.

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This and That Alan Röpke This and That Alan Röpke

Mediatized Stimuli

All life becomes mediatized, experience now consumable via multistimuli form. An experience is not lived through in these conditions, instead you live a life of a perma-voyeur. Simultaneously hyperstimulated and unsatisfied, two magnetized points through which you cycle through.

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W10/WQ—McLuhan

More than 10 quotes from McLuhan’s Understanding Media, Extensions of Man.

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