Faculty Lecturer
Kyle Kubler, PhD
看片视频 Writing Centre
kyle.kubler [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Kyle Kubler has joined the 看片视频 Writing Centre as a Faculty Lecturer. He received a PhD in Communication from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2021, and is an affiliated research fellow at their Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy. During his studies, he was a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship for Public Humanities as well as a Digital Storytelling Fellow with the University of Washington Libraries. As a new arrival to Montreal, he will continue to use his French skills, which he applied as a volunteer translator and interpreter for the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project helping francophone immigrants navigate their rights and obtain resources in Seattle, WA. Kyle Kubler joins us with six years of post-secondary teaching experience in digital media literacy, technology and politics, and qualitative research. He is well-positioned to teach undergraduate and graduate students how to effectively use narrative, digital storytelling, rhetoric, and communication theories when they write for academic, scholarly, digital and public audiences.
Service/Committees
Committee on Student Affairs Faculty Representative
Subcommittee on Scholarships member within Committee on Student Affairs
Selected Publications
Kubler, Kyle (forthcoming) Sellers, Shifters, Sharers and Science Communicators: The initial beliefs and positions of fitness influencers and creators on Instagram. Media, Culture & Society
Kubler, Kyle (2023) Influencers and the attention economy: the meaning and management of attention on Instagram. Journal of Marketing Management. DOI: 10.1080/0267257X.2022.2157864
Kubler, Kyle (2021) . Real Life Magazine
Kubler, Kyle, Fesenmaier, M. (2020) The Promise of a New Economy: The Experiences of Gig Workers in Seattle. Office of Labor Standards, City of Seattle.
Scharp, Kristina M., Kyle F. Kubler & Tiffany R. Wang (2020) Individual and community practices for constructing communicative resilience: exploring the communicative processes of coping with parental alienation, Journal of Applied Communication Research, DOI:
Kubler, Kyle (2019) New Economy Narrative?: A comparative analysis of technology and economy in the business press. Journalism Practice DOI:
Kubler, Kyle (2017) State of Urgency: Surveillance, power, and algorithms in France鈥檚 state of emergency. Big Data & Society. DOI:
Kyle Kubler coordinates these courses:
WCOM 314 鈥� Communicating Science (3 credits)
WCOM 414 鈥� Advanced Communicating Science (3 credits)
WCOM 317 鈥� Writing the Internet (3 credits)
WCOM 624 鈥� Communicating Research to the Public (1 credit)
WCOM 627 鈥� Communicating Research to the Digital Public (1 credit)