Manfred Becker, York University

Research

filmmaking media media literacy storytelling digital economy fact-based television audience studies ethics

Latest funding

Digital Afterlives
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$87,250
Tackling two of the most important unresolved tasks in reading intervention
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$73,190
A vaccine against Fake News
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$40,273

Digital Afterlives

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Creet, M. Julia

Keywords: data; data ownership; data privacy; death; digital afterlives; death online; grief; cyberthanatology; documentary film

$87,250

Tackling two of the most important unresolved tasks in reading intervention

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Savage, Robert S.

Keywords: reading; intervention; reading difficulties; reading disability; dyslexia; prevention; morphology; set-for-variability; randomized control trials

$73,190

A vaccine against Fake News

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Becker, Manfred

Keywords: filmmaking; media; media literacy; storytelling; digital economy; fact-based television; audience studies; ethics; truth

$40,273

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: filmmaking Dear Professor Becker, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on filmmaking connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "A vaccine against Fake News" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]