DINA SALHA

Replacement Professor, Department of Communication

Office: 554 King Edward Avenue, room 201
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 3829
E-mail: dsalha@uOttawa.ca

University degrees

2008 – Ph.D. in Communication (ABD), Carleton University
1998 – M.A. in Communication, Carleton University
1996 – B.A. Honours in Mass Communication and Sociology, Carleton University

Fields of interest

• International communication, politics, and media content, with special interest in the Middle East.
• Intercultural communication, diaspora, and media use
• Philosophy and critical theories of communication
• Popular culture, media policies, and society
• Psychology of modernization and communication
• Propaganda, persuasion, and public opinion

Ongoing research

I am currently analyzing the history of the concept of “Empathy” in aesthetic theory, in sociology, and in liberal philosophy, its later use in critical theories of communication and in the communication literature and research on the psychology of modernization and the media in the non-Western world (1950-1970s).

Selected publications

Articles

Martin, Michèle, Richard, B. and Salha, D.  “La Prémodernité: de Radiomonde: Un pas hésitant vers un Québec moderne”.  Histoire Sociale, France 2001.

Chapters

Salha, Dina.  “Talk-Shows in the Middle East: The Emergence of and Resistance to Civil Society”.  In International Dimensions of Mass Media Research, edited by Prof. Yorgo Pasadeos. Athens: Atiner, 2007, pp: 529-542.

Upcoming in 2009

Salha, Dina. “Representation and Its Discontents: how public policy is used to consolidate and fracture public space” for Integration, Securitization, and Global Communication: Canadian Public Policy and Canadian Arab Immigrants, University of Waterloo, 2009.

Salha, Dina. “The Future of Communication Studies in Rwanda: contradictions and continuities”, NUR Publications: Rwanda , 2009