Ira WAGMAN

Dr. Ira Wagman is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Commnunication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is the former Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California and he has held Visiting Appointments at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, the University of Freiburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the University of Arhus.

Dr. Wagman researches, teaches, and writes in the areas of media history, communication theory, and the study of media industries. He makes use of historiographical and interpretive research methods including archival work, policy analysis, and media criticism. He has written on a range of topics including communication and cultural policies ; the history of television ; questions of media and memory, media theory, and the relationship between media and time. The proposed research program at IAS-Nantes engages with three themes prominent in his published work: An appreciation of the quotidian and everyday nature of mediated communication; a sensitivity to ways that forms of social comportment are intimately connected to logics of media technologies; and larger questions about the relationship between major media companies and legal and regulatory frameworks.