About
Gino Canella is a researcher, educator and documentary filmmaker. He produces media with grassroots organizers and studies how the political economy of media affects the production and circulation of information. He is an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Emerson College.
His research has been published in top journals in communication and media studies, and his films have aired on public television and screened at international film festivals. His forthcoming book, Cracking the Facade, examines the ideological inconsistencies of capitalism, arguing that the loss of shared meaning is degrading work and creating new opportunities for labor organizers to redefine the working class.
Documentary Filmmaking
Producing compelling visual narratives about social justice and social movements.
Portfolio
Films & Media Projects
Writing
Books, Articles & Research
Raising Class Consciousness: Labor Movements and Communication Power in the Information Age
Examines the unequal power dynamics embedded in technological change, offering international perspectives on labor, media and communication.
View Book at Palgrave Macmillan / Springer
Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity
Reviews how labor unions and grassroots organizers are using media to build solidarity and promote social and economic justice.
View Book at Rutgers University Press
Selected Journal Articles & Essays
Full List on Google Scholar-
"Contested Terrain and the Distribution of Social Movements"
Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements (2026)
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"Anonymous Dissent: Protest, Privacy and Photographic Surveillance in Digital Media"
New Media & Society (2025)
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"Organizing Solidarity: Newsroom Unions, Gendered Labor and Professional Identity"
Journalism Practice (2025)
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"Cinematic Journalism: The Political Economy and 'Emotional Truth' of Documentary Film"
Studies in Documentary Film (2024)
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"Journalistic Power: Constructing the 'Truth' and the Economics of Objectivity"
Journalism Practice (2023)
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"Networked Unionism: Reframing the Labour Movement and Starbucks Workers' Hybrid Organising Practices"
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (2023)
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"An Oral History of the 10-Month St. Vincent Hospital Strike"
The Real News Network (2022)