Recent Media Appearances
September 18, 2020: CBC The National, Trump Bans Tiktok
Like, subscribe, save the world: YouTubers embrace climate activism, but experts question reach and motive, Jackson Weaver https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/youtubers-and-climate-change-1.5358145
May 21, 2019: “The sexist expectations of professional emails for women: ‘There’s no winning’,” Global News
October 27, 2019 Creative Destruction Lab partners with Facebook on new cryptocurrency, By Kaitlyn Simpson, The Varsity
October 21, 2019 Featured Expert, CTVnews.ca Live Blog on Misinformation in the Canadian Election Campaign https://election.ctvnews.ca/live-blog-replay-tracking-misinformation-on-election-night-1.4648495
April 10, 2019: CBC Interview, Here and Now with Gill Deacon
April 10, 2019: Laura Hensley, “Faith Goldy banned from Facebook after site enforces extremism, hate policy — now what?” globalnews.ca
March 26, 2018: Radio Live interview with 900 CHML on Trump Presidency, Stormy Daniels and #metoo movements
March 26, 2018: CTV Three Live Appearances, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (11: 15 CTV ; 12: 30 and 6 pm, CTV ; 4:30 CTV)
March 25, 2018: Globe and Mail https://globalnews.ca/news/4104368/canadians-data-harvested-political-companies/
March 22, 2018: CBC Radio Syndicate Facebook and Privacy (11 appearances on CBC across Canada)
Feb. 15, 2018: CTV Black Economic Empowerment 3.0
Oct. 16, 2017: Terrorism charges are only reserved for Muslims, Toronto Star
Oct. 4, 2017: Farah Nasser: Terrorism or not? Defining the Las Vegas massacre Globalnews.ca
Sep 16 2017: Megan Boler and Elizabeth Davis, How emotion trumps rationality in the world of Trump Toronto Star
April 27, 2017: Megan Boler, “Can Journalism Save Democracy?” Truthout
April 26, 2017: Toronto Star Hot Docs features closer look into lives of women
April 28, 2017: Analysis: We’ve read all President Trump’s tweets, so you don’t have to CTV News
Feb. 13, 2017: Toronto bar apologizes for ‘disgusting’ sign, blames rogue employee CTV News
28 Sept. 2015: White, Shelley. “Twenty years of Free The Children.” The Globe and Mail. Web. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/giving/20-years-of-free-the-children/article26540671/
6 April 2015: Harris, Anne. “Creative communities embody a new kind of civic engagement.” The Conversation. Web. http://theconversation.com/creative-communities-embody-a-new-kind-of-civic-engagement-37114
22 Feb. 2015: Li, Andy. “Satire: an enduring art.” The Varsity Magazine. Web. http://magazine.thevarsity.ca/2015/02/22/satire-an-enduring-art/
Jan. 25, 2017: Premier Kathleen Wynne bombarded on social media CBC.ca
15 January 2015: Tucker, Erika. “Charlie Hebdo satire isn’t new, but exposes what’s OK to mock.” Global News. Web. http://globalnews.ca/news/1774287/charlie-hebdo-satire-isnt-new-but-exposes-whats-ok-to-mock/
9 Jan. 2015: Paiken, Steve. “The Price of Satire.” The Agenda with Steve Paiken. TV Ontario/Online video clip. Web. http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/the-price-of-satire
2015: Whitson, Roger. “Steampunk Anachronisms: Queer Histories of the Digital Humanities.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 28. Web. http://rhizomes.net/issue28/whitson/
News Analyses/Op-Eds:
Megan Boler, “Can Journalism Save Democracy?” Truthout (April 27, 2017)
Megan Boler and Elizabeth Davis, How emotion trumps rationality in the world of Trump Toronto Star (Sept. 26, 2017)
Boler, Megan. “Occupy feminism: Start of a fourth wave?” Rabble.ca. 29 May 2012. Web. http://rabble.ca/news/2012/05/occupy-feminism-start-fourth-wave
Boler, Megan. “Occupy 2012 and Beyond.” The Mark News. 9 January 2012. Web. http://www.themarknews.com/articles/7934-occupy-2012-and-beyond
Boler, Megan. “Will New Media Save Democracy? The Daily Show and Political Activism” Counterpunch. 20 February 2007. Web.
http://www.counterpunch.org/boler02202007.html February 20, 2007
Boler, Megan. “Changing the World, One Laugh at a Time.” CommonDreams. 22 February 2007. Web. http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0222-29.htm
Boler, Megan. “Borat Lowers Bar of Political Satire.” Vancouver Sun. 16 November 2006. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=b7e1a6a6-e44d-4d3d-8fd2- e09b6be00489
Boler, Megan. “NY Times Apology feels Hollow.” Toronto Star. 31 May 2004 p. A16
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0531-06.htm
Scholarly Articles:
Boler, Megan, & Davis, Elizabeth. 2018. The affective politics of the “post-truth” era: Feeling rules and networked subjectivity. Emotion, Space and Society, 27, 75-85.
Boler, Megan. 2016. “Interview with Megan Boler: From ‘Feminist Politics of Emotions’ to the ‘Affective Turn’.” Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education. Eds. Michalinos Zembylas and Paul A. Schutz. Springer.
Boler, Megan. 2015. “Motivations of alternative media producers: Digital dissent in action.” The Routledge companion to alternative and community media. Ed. Chris Atton. London: Routledge.
Boler, Megan. “Feminist Politics of Emotions and Critical Digital Pedagogies: A Call to Action.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130.5 (2015): 1489.
Boler, Megan, and Jennie Phillips. 2015. “FCJ-197 Entanglements with Media and Technologies in the Occupy Movement.” The Fibreculture Journal 26 2015: Entanglements–Activism and Technology. Eds. Pip Shea, Jean Burgess, and Tanya Notley.
Boler, Megan. 2014. “From Existentialism to Virtuality.” Leaders in Philosophy of Education. Sense Publishers, 31-48.
Boler, Megan, and Christina Nitsou. 2014. “Women Activists of Occupy Wall Street: Consciousness-Raising and Connective Action in Hybrid Social Movements.” In Martha McCaughey, ed. Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web. NY: Routledge.
Reilly, Ian, and Megan Boler. “The Rally to Restore Sanity, prepoliticization, and the future of politics.” Communication, Culture & Critique 7.4 (2014): 435-452.
Boler, Megan, et al. “Connective labor and social media Women’s roles in the ‘leaderless’ Occupy movement.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 20.4 (2014): 438-460.
Boler, Megan and Selena Nemorin. “Dissent, Truthiness, and Skepticism in the Global Media Landscape: twenty-first century propaganda in times of war.” Oxford University Handbook of Propaganda. Eds. Jonathan Auerbach and Russ Castronovo. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Burwell, Catherine, and Megan Boler. “Calling on the Colbert Nation: Fandom, politics and parody in an age of media convergence.” Electronic Journal of Communication 18.2 (2008).