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Marshall Soules (BA Middlebury; MA/Ph.D. Rutgers) was an instructor at VIU (formerly Malaspina) from 1987 to 2009. Previously, he taught at various universities and colleges; owned and operated Raincoast Construction (Vancouver); and promoted music and dance in the Lower Mainland.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Marshall and colleagues in the English Department began offering Media Studies courses with a core focus on media ecology. In 2004, with a number of Media Studies courses in place, the department merged with the Digital Media Technology group and designed the curriculum for a Media program balancing theory with practice. This BA degree proposal was approved in 2008.

In 2009, Marshall retired from VIU to continue his own writing and photography projects. Since then, he has published Media, Persuasion and Propaganda (Edinburgh UP, 2015) and written a screenplay called Noble Lies. He is currently working on Cuba’s Revolutionary Landscape, a case study in visual ethnography, and working with his partner as a mediator and conflict resolution coach. He continues as an Honorary Research Associate at VIU and gives occasional lectures on media topics.

• Computer Technician
• Technical support for Media Studies Department

Teaching focus

• Class assistant in a few Digital Production courses.

Education

Information Technology and Applied Systems program (2000)
Specialty in Wide Area Technologies

• Sound design, audio editing, electronic music
• Programming/coding, with a focus on creativity and generative art
• Interactivity, particularly the construction of aural/visual instruments
•  DJ/remix culture, appropriation, collaboration, performance and play

Teaching focus

• Web Production
• Video Production
• Motion Media
• Project Management
• Programming

Education

Bachelor of Music, McGill University
MA, McGill University

• Documentary filmmaker and Cinematographer

Teaching focus

• Introduction to Digital Technology
• Documentary filmmaking

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University (Film Production)
Master of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia (Film Production)

• Internet
• Journalism
• Literacy
• Literature
• Media
• Teaching focus

Cross-platform storytelling, transmedia, identity performance and digital literacies
Citizen journalism, copyright, privacy and the future of news
Print and e-publishing business models and entrepreneurship for books, magazine, online
Social media advocacy regarding women’s issues, grassroots change, feminism 2.0

Education

Bachelor of Journalism, Carleton University
MA, Carleton University (Canadian Studies)
Ph.D., Simon Fraser University (Communication) (ABD)

• Women and technology
• Educational technology
• Instructional / Interaction design

Teaching focus

• User Interface design
• Web development
• Project management

• Experimental gameplay design and interactive narrative
• Tabletop and physical – digital hybrid games
• Mathematical game design