Matthew Flisfeder

Dr. Matthew Flisfeder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications. He received his PhD from the joint graduate program in Communication and Culture from Ryerson and York universities. Before arriving at The University of Winnipeg, Dr. Flisfeder was an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University.

Flisfeder’s research and teaching interests are in social media, popular culture, film, and rhetorical and ideology criticism. His interdisciplinary research addresses questions about the intersection of media, ideology, and identity, and examines the role of media and popular culture in contemporary politics.

His current research examines the relationship between social media, algorithmic discourses, automation, and the representation of neoliberal ideology. He also writes about the representation of new media in popular culture, science fiction film and television, and cyberculture.

Flisfeder has written about the relationship between postmodern culture, social media, and the rise of the Alt-Right political movement. He has given published articles and public talks about the rise of the Alt-Right.

He is the author of Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).