RTA's Clive Vanderburgh is the author of a research paper entitled Kids' Shows Hide Reality - Adult Shows Exaggerate It, a Children's Media Project (CHIMP), that used surveys conducted by RTA students on the television watching habits of 940 children. Vanderburgh also organized and moderated a CHIMP conference on Interactive Television for Children held in November 2002 at Ryerson. This event attracted more than 90 participants from the television, new media and video gaming industries.

Click here for an article about Vanderburgh's research.

In November 2002, Joyce Smith - an Associate Professor for Journalism, presented a paper entitled "Hero Priest: The death and life of Fr. Mychal Judge" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in Salt Lake City, Utah. Smith was part of a panel on religion and responses to September 11th.

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"Contour Attack: Figure or Ground?" - a panel for the meeting of the Canadian Women's Studies Association at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2002 conference held in Toronto in May 2002, was formed by Ryerson's Linda Lewis of Image Arts, Annick Mitchell of Interior Design, and Gillian Mothersill of Graphic Communications Management along with OCAD's Heidi Overhill. Chairing this panel was Prof. Lewis who also presented a paper.

Lewis also chaired a panel in June 2002 on "Film Design and Interpretation" and presented the paper "Filmbuilding, what's design got to do with it?" at the Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Lewis also edited and contributed to the electronic book entitled Filmbuilding: Devices and Delicacies of Film Design that also features the work of Ryerson's Bruce Elder of Image Arts, Murray Pomerance of Sociology and Lily Alexander of Image Arts. The electronic book was produced as a beta and the first application of the TK3 Author and Reader software published by NightKitchen.

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Ryerson Business School instructor Daniel Timmons produced The Legacy of The Lord of the Rings, a literary documentary about the famous J.R.R. Tolkien epic trilogy, with help from Radio and Television Arts graduate Dana Lee. Timmons and Lee traveled to various places in which Tolkien was inspired to write the trilogy such as Oxford University. The Legacy of The Lord of the Rings was aired on the Bravo! specialty cable station in February 2003.

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