Wonks and War Rooms

Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy

Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat about whether or not it makes sense at all out in the world of politics and communications. She chats with political staffers, journalists, comms experts, lobbyists, activists and other political actors. Elizabeth quizzes them on pol comm theory and they tell her how ridiculous (or super helpful) that theory actually is.

Mar 30, 2022

Rebroadcast of Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles with Adi Rao

Season 4 Episode 5 - Adi Rao, a lawyer and campaigner, explains how campaigns are often thinking about how they can crack into people's ...

Mar 16, 2022

Political Polarization with Sean Speer

Season 4 Episode 4 - Sean Speer is the Editor-At-Large at The Hub, a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and

Mar 9, 2022

Propaganda, Government Comms, and Disinformation with Shuvaloy Majumdar

Season 4 Episode 4 - Shuvaloy Majumdar is the Foreign Policy Director and Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and this ...

Feb 23, 2022

Information Disorder with Claire Wardle

Season 4 Episode 2 - Claire Wardle, professor at Brown University and co-founder of First Draft, a non-profit that focuses on misinfo...

Feb 16, 2022

Rebroadcast of Mis- and Dis- Information with Nasma Ahmed

Season 4 Episode 1 - Nasma Ahmed is the Director of the Digital Justice Lab and she helps Elizabeth unpack what exactly mis- and dis- info..

Feb 9, 2022

Season Four! Mis- and Dis- information

Season 4 Trailer - This season of Wonks and War Rooms is going to focus on mis- and dis- information. We'll talk about information dis...

Dec 15, 2021

Mapping theories for media and digital literacy

Season 3 Episode 9 - This week Elizabeth wraps up season 3! This season was focused on Media and Digital Literacy, and Elizabeth runs..

Dec 8, 2021

Rebroadcast of Surveillance Capitalism with Vass Bednar

Season 3 Episode 8 - Elizabeth chats with public policy expert Vass Bednar about surveillance capitalism. Taking a few Canadian examples...

Nov 24, 2021

Technological Affordances with Rachel Aiello

Season 3 Episode 7 - This week Elizabeth chats about technological affordances with Rachel Aiello, an online politics producer for CTVNews.

Nov 17, 2021

Rebroadcast of Content Moderation with Andrew Strait

Season 3 Episode 6 - Former content moderator and current director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, Andrew Strait and Elizabeth chat about...

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