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Sydney L. Forde

PhD Candidate in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications

The Pennsylvania State University

Education

PhD
The Pennsylvania State University

2020 - 2025  (anticipated)

2018 - 2019

MA
University at Buffalo 
& Brock University

BA
Brock University

First Class Standing

2014-2018

Mass Communications
Advisor: Matthew P. McAllister
Committee: Christopher Ali; Krishna Jayakar; Matthew Jordan; Victor Pickard

Dissertation: Exempting Democracy: An Analysis of Market Ontology Through Two Journalism Anti-Trust Exemption Acts [NPA and JCPA]

Canadian - American Studies

MA Thesis: Diverging Media: US and Canadian Public and Private Media Representations of Immigrants and Refugees

Business Communications
Honours Thesis: Right Over Reason: Unnatural Voting in the Age of Populism

Research Interests

Political Economy of Media Industries & Media Policy

Critical Theory

Journalism &
Public Media

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L-R: Dr. Matthew F. Jordan; Dr. Christopher Ali; Sydney L. Forde; Dr. Matthew P. McAllister; Dr. Krishna Jayakar

Media

"Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth"

-Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno, 1944
 

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