Media@McGill - Critical Communication Matters
By Media@McGill
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Media@McGill is a hub of research, scholarship and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology and culture. The members of Media@McGill are the eight communication studies faculty within the Department of Art History and Communication.
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| 1 | VideoMisrepresentation: Women, Girls, Power and the Media | Media@McGill and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies invite you to join us for a panel discussion on the theme of media representation of women. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement | Pulitzer award-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges gave a keynote address at the auditorium of the Biblioth�que et Archives Nationales du Qu�bec. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Activism one year after Cablegate | On the one year anniversary of Cablegate, Media@McGill hosted a roundtable panel consisting of contributors to the upcoming book, Beyond WikiLeaks. | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miranda July book launch: It Chooses You | Filmmaker, writer and artist, Miranda July, gave a presentation and launched her new book, It Chooses You, at the Ukrainian Federation in Montreal on Monday, November 14th. | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Gadfly in the Ointment: 100 Years of Questioning the Status Quo | A distinguished panel of experts will look back at the defining role of media in some of the key moments of the past century - and forward to suggest what we might expect from the media in the next. | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social Media and Social Movements in the Middle East and North Africa | On Friday April 1st, Media@McGill invited the public to join us for a free international event (keynote talk and panel discussion) regarding social media and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Human after the Post-humanist Critique or, the Fantasy of Interspecies Ethics | This paper is an attempt to return to the human "after the cyborg." It is driven by a desire to find a way out of the posthumanist impasse of some strands of contemporary cultural theory. | 1/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Downing: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movement Media | The history of transnational social movements is a long one, and includes international labour solidarity, the abolitionist movement, the anti-colonial movement, the anti-apartheid movement - but also fascism. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Terry Eagleton: The Death of Criticism | How can criticism justify itself in modern society? What have been its traditional functions, are these still feasible, and can they be adapted to our own conditions? | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jodi Dean: Whatever Blogging | Jodi Dean was Media@McGill Beaverbrook visiting scholar this winter. She visited us in February to give a public talk on 11 February. The talk is a collaboration between Media@McGill and the AHCS speaker series. | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Feenberg: From critical theory of technology to the rational critique of rationality | Media@McGill is a hub of research, scholarship and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology and culture. The members of Media@McGill are the eight communication studies faculty within the Department of Art History and Communication. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philosophy of Technology graduate seminar with Andrew Feenberg | A recorded visit to Darin Barney's Philosophy of Technology graduate seminar. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Preston Manning in conversation with Darin Barney: On the politics of science and technology in Cana | This conversation event is a collaboration of Media@McGill with the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster, "Situating Science: Humanist and Social Studies of Science." It took place November 12, 2009, at the McGill Faculty Club ballroom. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Angela Davis | Media, Race and Power: The Case of Oscar Grant | Angela Davis is an American political activist and university professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Love: NGO efforts to reform the World Intellectual Property Organization | James Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI). Mr. Love is also the U.S. co-chair of the ?Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, chair of Essential Inventions, an advisor to the X-Prize Found. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness | This paper examines the history of happiness through a feminist lens. The paper proceeds by suspending belief that happiness is a good thing, and explore feminist histories as struggles against happiness. Happiness is how social norms become social goods. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Canadian and U.S. elections: did the media do their job? | In the wake of both the Canadian and the US elections, Media@McGill is pleased to present a special event which aims to provide a space for public exchange concerning the role of media in both elections. | 12/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
