Gino Canella

Gino Canella’s research and creative works explore media activism, journalism, and labor. Gino produces documentary media with grassroots organizers, and researches how movements use media to foster broad-based coalitions for change. Gino studies how media influence social and political life and affect democratic participation. His book Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity (Rutgers University Press, 2022) details the media tactics and communication strategies of Black Lives Matter 5280 and SEIU Local 105 in Denver, Colorado. Gino has published peer-reviewed research in the International Journal of Communication; Communication, Culture & Critique; Electronic News; and Journalism Practice, among other venues. His documentaries have screened at international film festivals and at academic conferences. His latest documentary, Front Line (2021), featured the historic nursing strike at St. Vincent hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts.