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Sadie Couture
Concordia University
Canada
Sadie Couture is a digital media artist, producer, educator, and scholar. She is a Master’s Student in Media Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, QC, and holds a BA in Philosophy and Gender Studies from the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include the radio history, gendered listening practices, oral history, affect and political emotions, and the personal and institutional stewardship of digital and analog media. She is a member of the Media History Research Cluster at Concordia University, and her SSHRC-funded thesis project explores the life, career and impact of popular radio host Mary Margaret McBride (1899-1976). She co-produces COHDScast, a podcast about oral historians and their work with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia, and is currently co-producing a sound map based on a small island off the West Coast of British Columbia, as well as a self-guided audio walking tour of an urban park in Vancouver, BC. She is a research assistant and audio producer for the text-based newsgame The Oldest Game, and her most recent work can be seen in On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land (Fernwood, 2018).