- Professor
University of Calgary
Department of Communication, Media and Film
Charlene Elliott
- +1 (403) 220-3180
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Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| W2024 - COMS 591 - Capstone Seminar in Communication and Media | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2025 - COMS 503.5 - Advanced Special Topics in Communication and Media Studies (Communication and Health) | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2025 - COMS 647 - Communication and Health | |||||||||||||||||
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Education
B.A. (Honours) University of Calgary
, M.A. University of Calgary
, Ph.D. Carleton University
Research
Dr. Elliott is the CIHR Canada Research Chair in Food Marketing, Policy and Children's Health.
See our website at www.ucalgary.ca/foodmarketing
Her main program of research focuses on the following:
1. Communication and Health. A critical perspective on how issues become framed as health issues, and the implications for identity, policy, etc. Closely related to this is my research on Food Marketing, Policy and Children’s Health (which takes up issues of child- and teen responses to food marketing messages, policy related to food marketing in Canada, obesity and public health).
2. Taste and Communication: This project deals broadly with theorizing a communication of taste. From marketing foods to children to to creating connoisseurship, the research seeks to develop a more nuanced understanding of taste, how it functions in society and how it communicates.
3. Intellectual property and sensorial communication: This project deals with the expanding boundaries of intellectual property rights, particularly trademark rights. Of primary focus is the trademarking of sensory marks; the project deals with the communicative and policy implications of codifying colour, shape and scent.
Dr. Elliott holds a joint appointment with the Faculty of Kinesiology.
Courses Taught
Communication Studies 717.01 - Communication and Health
Communication Studies 717
Communication Studies 601
Communication Studies 591
Communication Studies 473
Chapters in Books
Elliott, C. (2013). Governing taste: Packaged foods, inscription devices, nutrition and the child. In M. McAllister and E. West (eds.) Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture. pp. 267-282.
Elliott, Charlene. "The complexity of choice: Food promotion and our modern foodscape" Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies, 2nd Edition Ed. Elliott, Charlene Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2013. 81-88. Print.
Elliott, C. (2012). ‘Healthy food looks serious’: How children interpret packaged food products. In A. Strickland (ed.), Annual Editions: Nutrition 11/12, 23rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 7-17.
Elliott, C. (2010). Blue Froot Loops, giggling Dough-Boys and the smell of beer: Why the senses matter. In L. Shade (ed.), Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, 3rd edition. Ontario: Nelson.
Elliott, C. (2009). Kid-Visible: Childhood obesity, body surveillance and the techniques of care. In S. Heir and J. Greenberg (eds.), Surveillance: Power, Problems, and Politics. UBC Press.
Elliott, C. (2008). The strange, the bizarre and the edible: Artificiality and fun in the world of children's food. In J. Greenberg and C. Elliott (eds.), Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies. Thomson-Nelson. pp. 81-88.
Elliott, C. (2008). Consuming the other: Packaged representations of foreignness in President's Choice. In K. LeBesco and P. Naccarato (eds.), Edible Ideologies. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 179-198.
Elliott, C. (2006). Sipping Starbucks: (Re)considering communicative media. In P. Attallah and L. Shade (eds.), Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, 2nd edition. Ontario: Nelson. pp. 62-76.
Elliott, C. (2002). Sipping Starbucks: (Re)considering communicative media. In P. Attallah and L. Shade (eds.), Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, Ontario: Nelson. pp. 107-119.
Publications
Book
- Elliott, Charlene. Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies, 2nd Edition Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2013. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2008. Print.
Journal Article
- Elliott, Charlene, Carruthers Den Hoed, Rebecca and Conlon, M. "Food Branding and Young Children's Taste Preferences: A Reassessment". Canadian Journal of Public Health 104.5 (2013): 364-368. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Parent's choice: Examining parent perspectives on regulation and child-targeted supermarket foods". Food, Culture and Society 16.3 (2013): 437-455. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene and Cook, B. "Not so Grreaat: Ten important myths about food advertising targeted to children in Canada". Childhood Obesity 9.4 (2013): 1-6. Print.
- Carruthers Den Hoed, Rebecca and Elliott, Charlene. "Parents' Views of Supermarket Fun Food and the Question of Responsible Marketing.". Young Consumers, (2013). Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "TasteTM: Interrogating food, law and color". The Senses & Society 7.3 (2012): 276-288. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Packaging fun: Analysing supermarket food messages targeted at children". Canadian Journal of Communication 37.2 (2012): 303-318. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Marketing foods to children: Are we asking the right questions?". Childhood Obesity 8.3 (2012): 202-205. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Packaging Health: Examining "better-for-you" foods targeted at children". Canadian Public Policy 38.2 (2012): 265-281. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene and Brierley, Meaghan. "Healthy Choice?: Exploring how children evaluate the healthfulness of packaged foods". Canadian Journal of Public Health 103.6 (2012): 453-458. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene, Dutton, D., Campbell, N. and McLaren, L.. "A ban on marketing of foods/beverages to children: the who, why, what, and how of a population health intervention". Canadian Journal of Public Health 103.2 (2012): 100-102. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. ""It's junk food and chicken nuggets": Children's perspectives on 'kids' food' and the question of food classification". Journal of Consumer Behaviour 10.3 (2011): 133-140. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene and Conlon, M. "Toddler foods, children's foods: Assessing sodium in packaged supermarket foods targeted at children". Public Health Nutrition 14.3 (2011): 490-498. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Sweet & Salty: Nutritional content and analysis of baby and toddler foods". Journal of Public Health 33.1 (2011): 63-70. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Eatertainment and the (re)classification of children's food". Food, Culture and Society 13.4 (2010): 539-553. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Entertaining Eats: Children's fun food' and the transformation of the domestic foodscape". Material Culture Review, (2010). Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. ""Healthy food looks serious": How children interpret packaged food products". Canadian Journal of Communication 34.3 (2009): 359-380. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Canada's Great Butter Caper: On law, fakes and the biography of margarine". Food, Culture and Society 12.3 (2009): 379-396. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene and Greenberg, J. "A Cold-cut crisis: Food-borne illness, legitimation problems and corporate apologia". Canadian Journal of Communication 34.2 (2009): 189-204. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Marketing Fun Food: A profile and analysis of supermarket food messages targeted at children". Canadian Public Policy 34.2 (2008): 259-274. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Assessing fun foods: Nutritional content and analysis of supermarket foods targeted at children". Obesity Reviews 9. (2008): 368-377. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Taste rules!: Food marketing, food law and childhood obesity in Canada". Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures, (2008). Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Purple Pasts: Color Codification in the Ancient World". Law & Social Inquiry 33.1 (2008): 173-194. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Big persons, small voices: On governance, obesity and the narrative of the failed citizen". Journal of Canadian Studies 41.3 (2007): 134-150. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Pink!: Community, contestation and the colour of breast cancer". Canadian Journal of Communication 32.3 (2007): 521-536. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Regimes of vision and products of color". The Senses and Society 2.1 (2007): 41-58. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Considering the connoisseur: Probing the language of taste". Canadian Review of American Studies 36.2 (2006): 229-36. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene, Greenberg, J. and May, T.. "Homelessness and media activism in the voluntary sector: A case study". The Philanthropist 20.2 (2006): 131-152. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Unlabelled: Law, language and genetically modified food in Canada". Canadian Journal of Communication 31.1 (2006): 247-54. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "ColourTM: Law and the Sensory Scan". M/C Journal 8.4 (2005). Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Childhood obesity and our 'toxic environment': Suggestions for future research". Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education 22.3 (2005): 37-59. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Colour codification: Law, culture and the hue of communication". Journal for Cultural Research 7.3 (2003): 297-319. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Crayoning culture: The 'Colour Elite' and the commercial nature of colour standardization". Canadian Review of American Studies 33.1 (2003): 37-59. Print.
- Elliott, Charlene. "Consuming caffeine: The discourse of Starbucks and coffee". Consumption, Markets and Culture 4.4 (2001): 369-382. Print.
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