Mark Hayward organized and participated in a roundtable on Popular Economics at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in San Diego. He presented a paper on digital technology entitled "Perfect Sound Forever: The temporalities of digital technology" at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in San Diego. His article "Voting Abroad: Cultural Diversity and Democratic Institutions in a Global Era" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law (Carswell). Professor Hayward has authored a chapter entitled "Vernacular geopolitics and media economies in an enlarged Europe" in the forthcoming anthology Media in the Enlarged Europe (Intellect). 

At present, my research focuses on three areas:

1) Cultural Policy and Transnational Governance

Developing out of my dissertation research, I am interested the intersection between the management of culture and institutions of governance. This includes such multilateral organizations as UNESCO as well as the use of culture as a tool used by states for maintaining community among globally dispersed population. My own research has primarily focused on the Italian context, but I have also written about the connection between the globalization of state institutions and multiculturalism in Canada. I am in the process of further developing my dissertation and looking into the development of discourses about communication and the psychology migration in international institutions.

2) Economic discourse in popular culture/Economies of popular culture

I am interested both in the way that objects and actions connected with popular culture come to be constituted as part of economies of value and exchange. In other words, what are the processes through which commodification takes place? At the same time, and not unrelated, I am interested in the proliferation of discourses about ‘the Economy’ in contemporary popular culture.

3) Technology and Medium Theory

I am interested in thinking about the evolution and development of thinking about technology in Communication technology. Recently I have become interested in the development of ‘mechanology’ and other attempts to theorize a science of machine (as in the work of Gilbert Simondon.) In particular, I am interested in the way that these attempts have intersected with medium theory (Innis, McLuhan, etc.) on the hand, and phenomenology (especially the work of Merleau-Ponty).

Prior to coming to the AUP, I completed my dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Communication Studies. I have taught courses on media studies, popular music studies, digital technology and new media.

I have forthcoming publications on Italian media and globalization as well as the question of the globalization of elections in Canada. I have translated work from both Italian and French.