Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement

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UPDATE: Audiovisual recording of M@M's Occupy event is now available for streaming and download. You can either watch the keynote and panel discussions, download the MP3 directly, or download the audio as a podcast from M@M's iTunes channel.

Friday, January 27th, 2012
 

Misrepresentation: Women, Girls, Power and the Media

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Thursday, February 9, 2012, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Leacock 232, 855 Sherbrooke West [map]
 
The influence of media on society has long been debated, especially with regard to the correlation between violence exposed in various communication and entertainment mediums and aggression among teenagers. However, what of the correlation between the representation of women in the media and roles of power for women in Western society?
 
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 which will be based on issues raised in the 2011 documentary, Miss Representation, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The panel is free and open to the public, but online registration is advised as places are limited. Screenings of Miss Representation will also be shown throughout the day.

New Blog Entry: Challenging the Information Landscape

A new Media@McGill blog entry is now available.

"Challenging the Information Landscape: WikiLeaks' effect on the Media, Activism and Politics" brings together some of the main points made by panelists during our most recent event, Beyond WikiLeaks: Journalism, Activism and Politics One Year after Cablegate.

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Beyond Wikileaks and Miranda July event audio files now available

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Two recent M@M events -- Beyond Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Activism one year after Cablegate, and Miranda July's launch of her new book It Chooses You -- were audio-recorded. These recordings are now available for download from our site, or you can subscribe to all of our audio recordings on your iPod, via the M@M podcast channel on iTunes.

AUDIO: Beyond Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Activism one year after Cablegate. (~47MB)

AUDIO: Miranda July's launch of her new book It Chooses You. (~72MB)

Beyond Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Activism one year after Cablegate

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Tuesday, November 29, 4:00 pm
Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish (map)

On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and a small number of media partners released thousands of U.S. embassy diplomatic cables in what came to be referred to as 'Cablegate'. International diplomacy, journalism, and broader society were shaken by this extremely public disclosure of classified cables, which had been sent to the U.S. Department of State by its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Among numerous other revelations, the cables exposed U.S. government war crimes, government corruption in North Africa, and misdealing within the financial sector, igniting an intense debate on the future of diplomacy and the media.