Background: Information technologies that have become obsolete, such as the double-ender device, tend to be under-researched. Analysis: This article employs Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to explore how television current affairs programs such as The Journal (1982–1992) were innovative precisely because they relied on such technologies (and their facilitators) to produce high-quality audiovisual interviews with remote guests. Conclusions and implications: The double-ender technology set the stage for the instantaneous nature of television news programming today.

Background: Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is a significant problem for young people and is on the rise in Canada. Young people from marginalized groups are at greater risk of TFSV victimization, and urgent support from schools is needed. Analysis: This study uses intersectionality as an analytic framework to examine how Canadian secondary schools address TFSV within their educational curricula, policies, and legislation. Conclusion and implications: TFSV, gender-based harms, sexuality-based harms, power imbalances, and intersectionality are neither consistently nor comprehensively discussed in educational curricula, policies, or legislation. Approaches to TFSV education and prevention must be more comprehensive and should address TFSV using an intersectional approach.

Background: This article reflects on the crucial contribution of critical qualitative research in communication policymaking. Analysis: This article draws on previous and current projects that use critical theory to analyze broadband policy in the United States and discusses methodological interventions of critical political economy, critical feminism, Marxism, and ethnographic approaches to policy. Conclusions and Implications: I use the hallmarks of “people,” “power,” and “praxis” to argue for the need to rebalance what constitutes evidence in communication policymaking and the concomitant need to make space for critical qualitative research in public policymaking.

Background: This article examines the implications of the Online News Act for ethnic media. Analysis: We draw on an examination of parliamentary debates and committee testimonies, media coverage, and interviews. Conclusions and Implications: We raise concerns 1) that ethnic media experienced difficulty participating in the legislative process surrounding the Online News Act, 2) about the eligibility of small ethnic media outlets for compensation, and 3) about the potential impact of Meta’s decision to remove news from its platforms. We raise questions for evaluating the Online News Act’s relationship to ethnic media as the Act is implemented.

Background: This article applies an intersectional feminist political economy approach to examine the contexts and conditions of Google’s equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policy. Analysis: Google’s EDI policy framework is interpreted as a strategic response to criticisms of the inequities and oppressions surrounding Google’s work and labour conditions, technological products, and social power. Conclusions and implications: There are notable contradictions between Google’s EDI policy ideals and enduring practices. Google’s EDI policy may be an example of “EDI solutionism” in a context where many tech corporations have tried to co-opt identity politics in pursuit of profit.