Wonks and War Rooms

Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy

Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat about whether or not it makes sense at all out in the world of politics and communications. She chats with political staffers, journalists, comms experts, lobbyists, activists and other political actors. Elizabeth quizzes them on pol comm theory and they tell her how ridiculous (or super helpful) that theory actually is.

Mar 21, 2023

Big Tech and Political Campaigns with Becca Rinkevich

Season 5 Episode 4 - Becca Rinkevic is the Director of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media and formerly the Deputy Director of Dig...

Mar 8, 2023

Meta Oversight Board with Julie Owono

Season 5 Episode 3 - Julie Owono is the executive director of Internet Sans Frontières (Internet Without Borders) and a fellow at the ...

Feb 22, 2023

Image Manipulation with Juliana Castro-Varón

Season 5 Episode 2 - Juliana Castro-Varón is the founder of the digital open access publisher Cita Press, and a fellow at the Berkman ...

Feb 8, 2023

Knowledge Mobilization for Policy Impact

Season 5 Episode 1 - Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist, and co-director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab. This episode she ...

Jan 18, 2023

Season Five! Technology, Politics & Policy

Get ready for Season 5 of Wonks & War Rooms! This season we’ll be diving into tech, politics, and policy. Starting Wednesday, February 8.

Apr 26, 2022

Post-truth politics with Vinita Srivastava

Season 4 Episode 9 - Vinita Srivastava is the senior editor of culture and society for The Conversation Canada, and host of the podcast...

Apr 20, 2022

Regulating Big Tech with Taylor Owen

Season 4 Episode 8 - Taylor Owen is a professor of public policy at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill university, and his ...

Apr 13, 2022

Journalism and online harassment with Rosemary Barton, Fatima Syed and Mark Blackburn

Season 4 Episode 7 - This episode is an audio version of a special live taping of Wonks and War Rooms, in partnership with uOttawa’s Centre

Apr 5, 2022

Backfire Effect with Riyadh Nazerally

Season 4 Episode 6 - Riyadh Nazerally is the Director of Communications for the Hon. Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and..

Mar 30, 2022

Rebroadcast of Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles with Adi Rao

Season 4 Episode 5 - Adi Rao, a lawyer and campaigner, explains how campaigns are often thinking about how they can crack into people's ...

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