...a hub of research, scholarship and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology and culture. Based in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Media@McGill is supported by a range of sources, most notably a generous gift from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation.
'Whatever Blogging', a talk by Jodi Dean
Submitted on Tue, 2010-01-19 08:05. News about M@M
Jodi Dean is Media@McGill Beaverbrook visiting scholar this winter. She will be visiting us in February and will give a public talk on 11 February, 5h30pm, W215. (map) The talk is a collaboration between Media@McGill and the AHCS speaker series.
Title: 'Whatever Blogging'
Abstract: Giorgio Agamben has introduced the idea of whatever being as a tag for a contemporary mode of belonging unbound by the inscriptions of disciplinary identity. Some agree that this mode could herald a better coming community. Linking whatever being to appearances of whatever in networked communications and positioning it within a brief history of the interconnections between media and identity, I argue that whatever being is the wrong model for a subject capable of left political practice and opposition.
Media@McGill to be part of Le Devoir’s centennial activities
Submitted on Tue, 2010-01-19 07:08. News about M@M
Quebec's independent daily newspaper, Le Devoir, has announced a year long string of activities to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2010. The programme of commemorative events, unveiled at a press conference in Montreal on 17 November, include a television documentary, a series of public lectures - and an international symposium organized by Media@McGill and the Centre d'études sur les médias.
Preston Manning in conversation with Darin Barney on the politics of science and technology in Canada
Submitted on Tue, 2010-01-19 05:58. Audio & Video | News about M@M
Update: Audio recording of this event is now available.
November 12, 2009, 530pm. McGill University Faculty Club ballroom (map)
This conversation event is in collaboration with the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster, "Situating Science: humanist and social studies of science"
Lisa De Wilde (TVOntario) on the impact of public broadcasting
Submitted on Tue, 2010-01-19 05:32. News about M@M
Media@McGill, in collaboration with the Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship, is pleased to present Lisa de Wilde from TVOntario.
The theme of Lisa's remarks will be "Increasing the impact of public broadcasting in the emerging media environment." This theme is developed around some questions found on the Media@McGill's site: "Is the culture of technology a culture of citizenship?" And "How can media practitioners and users collaborate to promote citizenship?"
CACS Biannual Conference | Congrès bisannuel d’ACÉC
Submitted on Tue, 2010-01-19 05:27. News about M@M
Thomson House, 3650 Rue McTavish
McGill University, Montreal
October 23-25, 2009
Plenary panels are free and open to the public
