Featured Film
The YouTube Effect
Alex Winter (2022)
1 hr 39 m
In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Winter explores the ascension and acceleration of YouTube, a video-sharing website that started with humble origins and has gone on to change how we experience the world. With exclusive access to some of YouTube’s biggest stars, the film presents an eye-opening and troubling look at the platform now so powerfully embedded in our lives.
Learning Centre
Seneca Libraries
e-Books
The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy--by a leading tech journalist.
This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture.
This book provides a critical study of the power, trust and legitimacy of algorithmic gatekeepers.
Library Databases
(Gale) Provides access to research in areas related to communications and mass media.
(EBSCO) Provides access to research in areas related to communication and mass media. Many journals have indexing, abstracts, and full-text from their first issues to the present.
(Sources) This online resource gives instant access to up-to-date contact information for print and broadcast media outlets across Canada, searchable by media type, subject, geography, language, ownership, and spokesperson expertise.
(Gale) Provides access to popular magazines for use in the social sciences, history, art or liberal arts courses.
(Bloomsbury / ABC-CLIO) A digital library of information and book content on American and world popular culture, past and present. Useful for research on the history, events, trends, and fads of specific decades or historical eras.
(ProQuest) Part of ProQuest Central. Offers indexing and full text of hundreds of academic journals, guaranteeing access to a wide range of social sciences including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, sociology and social work.
(ProQuest) Part of ProQuest Central. Covers international publications on sociology and social work, and includes social and cultural structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, addiction and substance abuse, and much more. This compilation provides full text of many important titles from the Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts databases.