Michael Lithgow

Dr. Michael Lithgow is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Athabasca University. His research focuses broadly on citizen engagement in public cultures. Current research is focused on critical technical practices including broadband initiatives in rural and remote communities and critical digital literacy pedagogies and their implications for subject formation. He is also currently investigating pedagogical approaches in journalism training to open source intelligence and the rise of user-generated content. His most recent publication is Eyewitness Textures: User-generated Content and Journalism in the 21st Century (2023 McGill-Queen’s University Press). In addition to various scholarly publications, Dr. Lithgow has published two collections of poetry: Who We Thought We Were As We Fell (Cormorant Books, 2021), and Waking in the Tree House (Cormorant Books, 2012).