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David Jackson is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University with extensive experience in the Ottawa music scene as an organizer and musician. This background informs his work as a sound studies scholar. Jackson has served as the Co-Programming Director of the Improvising Musicians of Ottawa and Outwards. His research focuses on the artistic practice methodology and understanding overlapping categories of ecology, sound, and media. His dissertation, titled 'Becoming Sonic: Ambient Poetics of Ecology and Listening: Four Militant Sound Investigations', completed in 2016, examined politically oriented listening practices influenced by feminist, ecological, and queer perspectives. He has taught various courses, including 'Piracy', 'Environmental Communication', 'Networked Self', and 'Screen Studies', specializing in the intersections of media, sound, and ecological concerns.
Includes MEng and MASc options.