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About
Matthew Tiessen is an Associate Professor in the School of Professional Communication (ProCom) in the Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). He is also a Faculty Associate with TMU's and York University's Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. Matthew was Graduate Program Director of the Masters of Professional Communication Program (MPC) in ProCom from 2018-22 and a TMU Senator from 2019-21.
Matthew received a SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-present) and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2013-16) in the area of "Digital Economy" in support of his research in the area of visual communication and digital culture. His research focuses on the ways mobile technologies are used by governments, corporations, and individuals to develop algorithmically driven logics and platforms to govern and enhance everyday activities. Matthew's interdisciplinary research and publishing also focuses on visual communication and design, affect and aesthetic theory, money and power, and critical information studies.
As a visual artist and designer with an Honours BFA in Fine Arts (studio), Matthew has created oil paintings, illustrations, caricatures, logo designs, and websites for clients, private collections, and a range of community and scholarly initiatives. His artwork has been featured in group exhibitions at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Matthew's research is featured in a range of interdisciplinary books and journals, including:
Matthew Tiessen is an Associate Professor in the School of Professional Communication (ProCom) in the Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). He is also a Faculty Associate with TMU's and York University's Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. Matthew was Graduate Program Director of the Masters of Professional Communication Program (MPC) in ProCom from 2018-22 and a TMU Senator from 2019-21.
Matthew received a SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-present) and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2013-16) in the area of "Digital Economy" in support of his research in the area of visual communication and digital culture. His research focuses on the ways mobile technologies are used by governments, corporations, and individuals to develop algorithmically driven logics and platforms to govern and enhance everyday activities. Matthew's interdisciplinary research and publishing also focuses on visual communication and design, affect and aesthetic theory, money and power, and critical information studies.
As a visual artist and designer with an Honours BFA in Fine Arts (studio), Matthew has created oil paintings, illustrations, caricatures, logo designs, and websites for clients, private collections, and a range of community and scholarly initiatives. His artwork has been featured in group exhibitions at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Matthew's research is featured in a range of interdisciplinary books and journals, including:
- Cultural Studies
- Theory, Culture & Society
- Cultural Studies<=>Critical Methodologies
- European Journal of Cultural Studies
- Volume
- CTheory
- Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
- TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
- Surveillance & Society
- Space and Culture
- Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy
- Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze (2012, Bloomsbury)
- Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope (2010, Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
- What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina (2008, University of Georgia Press).
