Tanner Mirrlees is an associate professor of communications and digital media studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and Vice-President of the Canadian Communication Association. He is the author of Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (Routledge, 2013) and Hearts and Mines: The US Empire’s Culture Industry (University of British Columbia Press,2016). He is also the co-editor of The Television Reader (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).