Charles Davis

Politics & Policy, Technology in Practice

DepartmentRTA Media (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Areas of ExpertiseIT, media, and creative industries; new firm formation, internationalization, and product and service innovation practices; innovation and industrial policy; consumer behaviour with respect to digital technologies and services; work practices and occupations in creative industries; management practices in media industries

https://people.ryerson.ca/c5davis/

My teaching and research interests have to do with the IT, media, and content industries, in three main lines:

Innovation management and policy in creative/IT industries.
Labour, freelancers, and small firms in creative industries.
Audiences, reception, user experiences, and mediated consumption.

My recent graduate and undergraduate teaching includes courses on audiences, media management, new product development, politicaleconomy of media industries, media innovation, and media entrepreneurship.

I teach in Ryerson's MA in Media Production program, in the Ryerson/York MA/PhD program in Communication and Culture, and in Ryerson's MBA/MSc in Management of Technology and Innovation program.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2021 - Stuart Duncan; Project-Paper: News Personalization: Do Journalism Audiences Prefer Algorithms Over Editors?

2020 - Kirsten Schaefer; Dissertation: The Designer’s Contribution to the 3d Knit Ecosystem

2018 - Emilia Zboralska; Dissertation: Telling Our Stories On The Web: Canadian English-Language Web Series And The Production Of Culture Online

2017 - Vanessa Ciccone; Thesis: Rated M for misogyny: reimagining gender assessments for film

2016 - Irene Berkowitz; Dissertation: Domestic supply to global demand: reframing the challenge of Canadian English-language television drama

2014 - Jacqueline Taggart; Major Research Paper: Voice and Authenticity in Organizational Storytelling: Examining the Ownership and Alignment of Organizational Stories and How They Contribute to Organizational Culture and Engagement

2012 - Florin Vladica; Dissertation: Understanding Entertainment Value: An Investigation into the Subjectivity of People Who Experience Entertainment

2011 - Erika Hogerwaard; Major Research Paper: Canadian Ethnic Media and Social Capital Development: Examining the Relationship Between Broadcasting Policy, Multicultural Programming and Sociocultural Integration and Cohesion in Canada

2011 - Sylvia Blake; Thesis: Managing the Mosaic: Diversity of Voices and Deliberative Policy Making in English Canadian Media

2010 - Neil Armstrong; Major Research Paper: The Role of Community Radio in Enhancing Identity Formation and Community Cohesion Among Caribbean Canadians in Toronto

2010 - Ian Hofmann; Major Research Paper: How Digital Media Entrepreneurs Talk and Think about Value Creation: A Study of Commodification

2009 - Monica Kohlenberg; Major Research Paper: The Rise Of A Media Empire In The Former Communist Space. A Case Study Of Central European: Media Enterprises

2009 - Nicholas Mills; Thesis: In limited release: the political economy of the Canadian motion picture distribution system

2006 - Monifa Morgan; Major Research Paper: Beyond the last hurdle: a review of Canadian feature film policy

ComCult Teaching Activities

CC 8952 Political Economy of Media