Stuart R. Poyntz

Stuart Poyntz is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include children's media cultures, theories of the public sphere, and urban youth media production. He has an extensive background in the history of media literacy, has co-authored a new book, Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell), and has published widely in the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Sociology Compass, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Canadian Journal of Education, Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, as well as various edited collections. His current research project is titled Youth Digital Media Ecologies in Canada.

Stuart's website is available at www.stuartpoynt.ca