Student profile

Robert Nicholas Marinov

Thesis supervisor: Fenwick McKelvey

Faculty

Robert Marinov is a current PhD candidate with an MA in Political Science from the University of Ottawa, where his thesis on “infotainment” in Canadian election reporting won the Commission on Graduate Studies in Humanities Thesis Prize.

His SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on the growth of Digital Twins as sustainability solutions, exploring the environmental and normative impacts of their embedding within Canadian discourse, policy, and practice. His work has been published in journals including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Communication Review, Politics & Policy, and Critical Studies in Media Communication, and has been presented at international conferences in Bologna, Italy, and Berlin, Germany.

He has also made media appearances and publications for The Conversation Canada and Radio-Canada’s Bonjour La Côte. He has contributed as a Research Assistant or collaborator on international research projects including Shaping 21st Century AI, Abundant Intelligences, and a study of populist climate change discourses among newspaper columnists in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Robert is a member of Machine Agencies (Milieux Institute), the Grierson Research Group, the Solar Media Collective, the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, and the Groupe de recherche en communication politique.

Thesis title: Steering the Anthropocene: Digital Twins, Power, and Sustainability in Canada's Digital Transformation

Publications, writing and/or artwork:

Chartier-Edwards, N., et al. (2024). Sciences et dissonances : les discours multiples du secteur pancanadian de la recherche en IA (2012-2023). INRS – Urbanisation Culture Société, Montréal. [Report for Shaping 21st Century AI]. https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/16002/
Marinov, R., & Saurette, P. (2024). “Prioritizing entertainment over substance is a dangerous trend in political reporting.” The Conversation Canada. https://theconversation.com/prioritizing-entertainment-over-substance-is-a-dangerous-trend-in-modern-political-reporting-225217
McKelvey, F., et al. (2024). “Incident Update 3: Exploring incident replicability using commercial AI tools.” Media Ecosystem Observatory. Report.
Marinov, R. (2024). “L’IA dans les processus démocratiques.” Radio-Canada Bonjour La Côte. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/bonjour-la-cote/segments/rattrapage/1802512/importance-reglementation-sur-utilisation-ia-dans-processus-d
Boucher, I., et al. (2024). “Hopeful and Just Futures Across Scales: Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age/ Solar Media Collective, Concordia University, Tio’tia:Ke (Montréal), Canada, May 11, 2023 [Conference Brief].” Utopian Studies 35(1).
Marinov, R., & Saurette, P. (2023). “Infotaining Canadian Politics? Measuring infotainment in English language newspaper coverage of the 2019 Canadian federal election.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 56(4): 871-895. doi:10.1017/S0008423923000586
Consalvo, M., Maier-Zucchino, E.J., & Marinov, R. (2022). “The Dilemmas of a Disco Cop: Ethically Well Played Experiences in Disco Elysium.” Well Played: A Journal on Videogames, Value and Meaning 11(1). https://press.etc.cmu.edu//sites/default/files/articles/02.%20THE%20DILEMMAS%20OF%20A%20DISCO%20COP.pdf
Marinov, R. (2020). “Election News Coverage and Entertaining Politics: A content analysis of infotainment characteristics in Canadian newspapers’ federal election coverage.” A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master’s degree in Political Science. University of Ottawa.
Marinov, R. & Stockemer, D. (2020). The spread of anti-Islamic sentiment: A comparison between the US and Western Europe. Politics & Policy 48(3). DOI:10.1111/polp.12354.

Marinov, R. (2019). "Mapping the Infotainment Literature: Current trajectories and suggestions for future research." The Communication Review 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2019.1682894.

Marinov, R. (2019). "Neoliberal rationality and the consumption of biased news: Theorizing the neoliberal subjectivation of news media audiences." Critical Studies in Media Communication 37(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2019.1658883.

Marinov, R. (2016). "Land-Use Adjudication in Canada’s Capital: An analysis of Ontario Municipal Board decisions affecting the preservation and development of “greenspace” in Ottawa." Edited by Erwin Dreessen. http://greenspace-alliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Marinov-OMB-Report-9Sep2016.pdf.