Pandemic Publishing: Year Two

ABSTRACT

If we accept this as a time of planetary entanglement, as Achille Mbembe (2019) names it, and if the question of this time is how we expose others to harm, violence, and death, then today's lockdowns and the forthcoming climate change migrations are more easily recognized as part of our commitment to historical processes that separate and divide us. [...]the Journal is pleased to present the contents of our current issue, which take up questions of Black studies and media materialism, changement cli- matique (climate change), digital access, disability in the journalistic profession, and the promotion of cannabis in Canada. While discussions of climate change often prioritize questions of economics, technology, and regulation in seeking to decarbonize energy systems, this article recognizes the importance of imaginaries in constituting climate change and its scientific discourses. In "A Learning Opportunity for TVO," Steven May revisits the imaginary, public communication, and institutional machinations that continue to inform ideas of digital transition in the context of a proposal by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (known as TVO) to eliminate all but one of its digital over-the-air transmitters.