Publications

Sport Media Vectors: Gender and Diversity, Reconstructing the Field - Common Ground Research Networks (2022)

Chapter 2 - "Who is the Purple-Haired Man??”: Queer Erasure in Audience Sentiment towards Megan Rapinoe (pp.22-42)

Citation: Walzak, Laurel Michele, Danica Vidotto, and Francesco Collura. 2021. Sport Media Vectors: Gender and Diversity, Reconstructing the Field. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Research Networks. doi:10.18848/978-1-61229-000-3/CGP.

Major Research Paper

“Her Winning Personality”: Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Portrayals of Females in Sport (2020)

Citation: Esford, Grace (2020). “Her Winning Personality”: Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Portrayals of Females in Sport. Toronto Metropolitan University. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14647917.v1

Research

Graduate Research Assistant - Global Journalism Innovation Lab, Ryerson University (2020)

Titled the Global Journalism Innovation Lab, the $2.5-million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) focuses on explanatory journalism that seeks to provide evidence-based information and perspectives to inform public dialogue and policy action. The Ryerson team leads the research theme on uptake and explanatory journalism, along with analysis of the quality and impact of certain genres. My focus for the summer position was to collect and analyze the types of COVID-19 data visualizations used in The Conversation Canada articles.

Co-Lead: Website Design and Development
Co-Lead Workshop: Microsoft Excel Workshop; Blogging Tools Workshop
Lead Workshop: Voyant Tools + Microsoft Excel Workshop

Volunteer Researcher - The Synaethetic Media Lab, Ryerson University, TCA Project (2020)

The Synaesthetic Media Lab (Synlab) at Georgia Tech and Ryerson University explores emerging modalities in new media. The research focuses on tangible and embodied interaction technologies that support creative practices that bridge the physical and digital worlds. Applications range across media arts, computational sciences, entertainment, and educational domains. SynLab is run by Dr. Ali Mazalek, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Media & Innovation.

Tangible Cultural Analytics Project:

- UX and UI for web-based component (wire-framing, logo design, general branding strategy)
- Research focuses: User study evaluation, cultural user experience (CUX) evaluation, questionnaire strategy, user study recruitment, data visualization technique