51社区黑料

The Skytrain is Loud/Transit is Loud

By: Jordan Rector, Jaylene F, Georgia Winstanley

A look into noise levels on public transport in the city of Vancouver, and possible methods to reduce the noise that commuters experience.

By: Shelby Gillies

A scrolling digital story focusing on women-on-women misogyny in multiplayer video game spaces.

AI Use at SFU

By: Greta Brand, Sabrina Saif, Ananya Miglani, Kashyap Desai, Araf Hossain Sajid

This study examines how generative AI is governed, used, and experienced by students, teaching assistants, and faculty at 51社区黑料. Using a mixed-methods design combining a student survey (n=45) with semi-structured interviews with two TAs and one professor, the research reveals a significant gap between widespread student AI use and inconsistent, liability-focused institutional responses. Findings highlight decentralized governance, unequal enforcement labour, and a lack of formal training for teaching staff, calling for clear, university-wide AI guidelines.

By: Lara Campos, Dasha Chalyuk

As international students, we know how it feels to be away from a familiar environment, and we know how powerful food can be in reconstructing this familiarity. We want to tell the story of humility, hard work, and most of all, a story of love.  The love for one鈥檚 home and family evolves in a special way when one leaves that home. In our project, we show it through close-ups, slow pace and quiet sound design, and explored this through visual and sonic means without interfering with what we observe.

By: Gracy Gandhi, Tyson Carr, Nevada Johnson, Nelia Savenkov, Shanae Virgo

鈥淎lternative Diet鈥� is a commentary on the hold digital media consumption has on an individual鈥檚 life. It explores how close relationships can encourage digital media consumption and how consistent consumption of such digital spaces can hinder a person鈥檚 quality of life. Becoming more attentive about how one chooses to navigate their time, by investing it into skill-building activities and those that foster connection, can be a means to develop a more balanced lifestyle.   

Affective Capitalism Absorbs Critique into Spectacle: Dystopian Imagery in AI Campaigns

By: Zarena Zaidi

This research investigates the circulation of three AI campaigns using dystopian imagery, Artisan, Friend.com, and replacement.ai, through the news coverage they generated between October 2024 and February 2026. The project demonstrates how these campaigns participate in affective capitalism by producing, circulating, and monetizing emotions including loneliness, rage, and fear, while consistently targeting feminized labor for automation and promoting visions of the social that commodify human connection. I argue that these campaigns reveal how contemporary capitalism does not suppress dissent but absorbs it, converting critique into spectacle through the same mechanisms of circulation that produce profit.

Tiananmen Square: A Struggle to Remember, Impossible to Forget

By: Emma Gladys-Flora Sands

An analysis of the censorship and memorialization of the events of the Tiananmen Square Crackdown in 1989.

By: Emi Namoro

A digital story exploring Vancouver鈥檚 social isolation issue and the rise of local young adult meet up groups.

Biaura: For your body, for your Aura, for your Planet

By: Rowen Mack, Kate Turner, Aleena Rahim, Simran Hans

Our group鈥檚 product is called Biaura: a single-use, compostable water bottle that you throw away after each use. The brand is a comedic critique of greenwashing, consumer activism, and overconsumption that parodies various marketing and advertising strategies, such as the comically high price, buy one, give one campaign, men's line, and blind box. These strategies reveal how commodity activism, gendered marketing, and corporate social responsibility, and scarcity marketing can be both harmful and deceivingly effective. While Biaura isn鈥檛 real, there are countless existing brands that use these same methods to manipulate individuals to contribute to consumer culture. This is important because in order to address overconsumption, we need to first recognize how promotional media and advertising, social pressure, and personal motivations drive us as consumers.

By: Tatiana Rasco

Return to Analog is an explorative documentary on the phenomenon of this digitally integrated generation's drive to engage with analog media as an aesthetic medium, as a catalyst for resistance, and as a call for community.  The piece features interviews across our own experience and with local organizations (Rocket Reprographics, Neptoon Records, Xinema) involved in analog media production. 

By: Liam McKay-Argyriou, Nathanael Lee, Juliana Manolo, Elliot Muir, Nayaka Reynard

SFUnsolved is a video podcast episode completed for CMNS 326: Video Podcast Journalism. The episode examines flaws in SFU's communication regarding financial decisions that impact the student experience, such as confusing budgetary documents and minimal channels for student feedback. We also suggest evidence-backed solutions to address this lack of transparency and improve the student experience. We believe this project represents the unique blend of skills taught at the School of Communication, combining in-depth research, critical analysis, engaging storytelling techniques and high-quality production values. 

By: Olivia Wong

This presentation outlines the research conducted for my honours thesis, which examines how participation in civic engagement organizations in Vancouver鈥檚 Chinatown influences the formation of ethnic identity among Chinese Canadian youth. Each clickable section highlights a component of the study, drawing from five interviews with youth aged 15鈥�24 who are affiliated with one of the following organizations: Chinatown Together or Chinatown Youth Engagement Society.

Protocol: A Critical Analysis of Data-Driven Policing in Vancouver鈥檚 Drug Crisis 

By: Naomi Pausche

Protocol is a creatively focused zine aimed at critiquing Vancouver and British Columbia鈥檚 approach to addressing the opioid crisis, specifically datafied predictive models of policing rather than humanities- and health-focused responses. The zine is intended to inspire and inform young people in a way that is visually striking, captivating, and action-oriented, encouraging them to take up space through humanities research and community initiatives.

By: Hannah Leung

While being 鈥淐hinese鈥� has been trending on social media, this video describes my experience growing up Chinese Canadian.

By: Antonia Angueira Rincon

This project is a workshop that uses the storytelling and world-building in Avatar: The Last Airbender to encourage emotionally vulnerable conversations. Through character arcs and key themes like grief, anger, and identity, participants reflect on their own emotional experiences. It responds to the Movember Institute of Men鈥檚 Health goal of improving emotional literacy among Canadian boys and young men by using familiar media as an accessible, low-pressure entry point.

By: Inaz Neshan, Emi Namoro, Therese Rotor-Murphy, Hailey Orosz, Stephanie Lin

Parasocial relationships is a short video that shines attention towards contemporary relationships that are formed on the internet, they may appear genuine and authentic on surface but are not as they seem.

Alive on Air

By: Maxwell Shepherd

A short documentary video on the CJSF Radio at 51社区黑料and what it means to be a Campus Community radio station.