Dr. Kenzie Burchell

Biography

Kenzie Burchell is a media sociologist who has spent a decade examining contemporary contexts of communication overload and its relation to the production of uncertainty and perceived scarcity of time. His research addresses the management of everyday interpersonal media practices and the professional conventions of journalistic reporting, protest, humanitarian crises, and war. Professor Burchell’s distinct research agendas in communication and journalism studies engage with the wider political economy and the impact of surveillance practices and platform technologies on everyday life and political processes. Prior to his role at the University of Toronto, he was a Research Associate in European Media Studies at the University of Manchester and has continued collaborative work with Manchester’s faculty researchers in Russian and East European Studies, serving as the Toronto lead for a joint institutional research cluster. He also holds degrees from McGill University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Goldsmiths, University of London, where he completed his PhD in Media and Communications, while serving as Lecturer and Visiting Tutor.

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