Ghislain Thibault, Université de Montréal

Research

media history media studies and theory sociotechnical systems everyday life social meanings of technology popular understanding of science technical discourses

Latest funding

The Paperology Symposium
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$24,737
Look Up!: The Media Logics of Aerial Communication
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$74,389
Look Up!: The Media Logics of Aerial Communication
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$15,535

All 4 grants and awards

The Paperology Symposium

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: De Maeyer, Juliette

Keywords: paper; material turn; media theory; material culture; interdisciplinarity

$24,737

Look Up!: The Media Logics of Aerial Communication

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Thibault, Ghislain

Keywords: media history; media studies and theory; sociotechnical systems; everyday life; social meanings of technology; popular understanding of science; technical discourses

$74,389

Look Up!: The Media Logics of Aerial Communication

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Thibault, Ghislain

Keywords: media history; media studies and theory; sociotechnical systems; everyday life; social meanings of technology; popular understanding of science; technical discourses

$15,535

Recovering mechanology (1955-1985): media-making as knowledge production

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Thibault, Ghislain

Keywords: intellectual history; media theory; philosophy of technology; media archaeology; Canadian history; historical methods; cultural studies

$109,945

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: media history Dear Professor Thibault, 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 media history 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 "Look Up!: The Media Logics of Aerial Communication" (2020), 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]