Professor Dr. Simon Thibault

Biography

Simon Thibault is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal. His research focuses on political communication, particularly issues related to journalism and media practices in Quebec and Canada. Thibault is interested in the politicization of media, misinformation, and online manipulation. He is involved with the Research Group on Political Communication (Groupe de recherche en communication politique), which includes researchers from various Quebec universities and around forty graduate students engaged in master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral research on political communication. He is also a member of the Center for International Studies and Research (CÉRIUM) and the Center for Peace and International Security Studies (CEPSI). Thibault has supervised numerous theses and directed student research in various aspects of media and political communication, addressing contemporary issues such as misinformation, media framing, and the impacts of new media. He continues to contribute to research projects that examine the transformations, actors, and practices of political media.

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