critical communications and media

MA STUDENT

Critical research

Reimer is currently exploring how death-positive activists—individuals and organizations who advocate for honest discussion, alternative care options, and an end to Western death avoidance—use and challenge capitalist social media platforms, while working towards a critical MA in communication and media studies at the University of Calgary.

Conferences

2024
“Death and digital justice: A consideration of the grievable.” Digital Power and Justice: UCalgary Department of Communication, Media and Film Graduate Conference.

Awards and accolades

2025
Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS M). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
2024
Barbara Schneider Student Writing Award (Graduate). University of Calgary, Department of Communication, Media and Film.

Service

2025
Organizing committee, communications sub-committee. UCalgary Department of Communication, Media and Film Graduate Conference.

2024
Marketing and event support. UCalgary Department of Communication, Media and Film, CanWest Global Lecture.

Research assistantships

2025
Graduate Assistant (Research). Care Work Shortages and Shifting Cultural Expectations in Alberta's Longterm Residential Care Sector: What Can We Learn at the Limits? SSHRC IDG project. PI: Dr. Janna Klostermann.

Research interests

• Digital cultures

• Death / grief positive discourse on social media

• Political economy of death / grief content creation

• Community, collectivity, ritual and affect

• Platform affordances / techno-affective affordances