meganboler.net » megan http://www.meganboler.net Megan Boler's Research Projects and Blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:40:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 boler in the media http://www.meganboler.net/2012/01/31/boler-in-the-media/ http://www.meganboler.net/2012/01/31/boler-in-the-media/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:17:35 +0000 megan http://www.meganboler.net/?p=971 My many years of researching “digital dissent” and the power of “micro-blogging” practices now find a day in the sun, with the “Arab Spring” and Occupy Movement using social media so centrally.

Megan Boler, Occupy 2012 and Beyond
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/7934-occupy-2012-and-beyond

Stick It to the Man: How the Web Spurs Political Change
Here are 10 instances where people combined activism and social networking to spark change
By Ian Paul | PC World | 25 January 12
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/photo-video/3332679/stick-it-man-how-web-spurs-political-change/

January 20, live interview “Occupy Protests,” KCBS News, San Francisco
CBS Radio News Desk KCBS AM & FM Radio

Costa Concordia: Italian cruise disaster satire speaks to rapid pace of comedy about tragedy, Vinay Menon
January 27, 2012
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/1122007–costa-concordia-italian-cruise-disaster-satire-speaks-to-rapid-pace-of-comedy-about-tragedy

Megan Boler
Year in Ideas: Twelve months of protest and a new lexicon
National Post, December 29, 2011

Megan Boler
‘Occupy’ instigator laments lack of spirit in Canada
CTV News, November 26, 2011

Megan Boler
Occupy’s alternative social, political model not ‘self-sustainable’
National Post, November 25, 2011

Megan Boler
Can protest survive un-Occupied?
London Free Press, November 15, 2011

Megan Boler
Interview: Anonymous hacker group threat to launch cyber-attack against City of Toronto
Global News, November 13, 2011

 

 

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January 31, 2012
Bridging the Gender Gap in the News: Public Talk & Panel Discussion Panelists: Shari Graydon, Informed Opinions; Megan Boler, Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education; Kathy English, Public Editor, Toronto Star; Esme Fuller-Thompson, Professor, Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work

February 9, Teacher’s College, Columbia, New York, invited talk

April 13, Invited Panelist, Arts and Activism Conference, SUNY Buffalo http://genderin.buffalo.edu/GAB.shtml

Keynote, “Fostering Civic Engagement: Revisiting the Role of the University and Aesthetics as a Language of Possibility,”  May 20-21,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hosted by Saint Joseph’s University and Barnes Foundation.

 

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  • New and ongoing research: Women Make Vlogs

  • Upcoming international conference!  DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, University of Toronto, November 11-14, 2010 (Megan Boler and Matt Ratto, conference organizers)

  • Recent Reviews of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press, 2008)

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    ]]>     http://www.meganboler.net/2010/08/26/790/feed/ 0     association of internet research http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/15/association-of-internet-research/ http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/15/association-of-internet-research/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:00:32 +0000 megan http://www.meganboler.net/?p=763 had a great time in, yes, Milwaukee!  a bunch of critical theorists even went dancing at a club saturday nite :) ….many papers and sessions on the topic of online activism.  good research on twitter and G20 protests, feminist australian blogs, the uses and demographics of twitter.

    i presented new material on ‘truthiness, dissent, and  an ‘ontology of truth’ (moving away from epistemology and towards understanding the forces behind ontology of truth–sounds fancy, but in the talk was able to show and tell with great examples: joe wilson ‘you lie,’ TDS clips, Bushin30 Second vids, etc)… using the work of jacques Ranciere (disagreement, police order, what counts as noise/audible/heard) and Nietzsche to make sense of how, in our sshrc interviews with digital dissent bloggers and video-makers, these folks struggle with truth:truthtelling:lies of media and politicans.  i break it down  to analyze moral truth, epistemological truth, truth as productive force..(and what about rhetoric? someone asked afterwards) .  many thanks to etienne turpin and kelly ladd as i prepared…and super thanks to dr. caroline bassett who offered a provocative response to the keynote with excellent suggestions.  looking forward to writing this up, hopefully with turpin, for CJC or ctheory or shorter version for first monday…

    http://ir10.aoir.org/?page_id=99

    ]]>     http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/15/association-of-internet-research/feed/ 0     on TVO 8pm: Lessig, Boler et al on Digital Activism http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/15/on-tvo-8pm-lessig-boler-et-al-on-digital-activism/ http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/15/on-tvo-8pm-lessig-boler-et-al-on-digital-activism/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:46:50 +0000 megan http://www.meganboler.net/?p=759 Mr. Morozov, Mr. Rasiej, and Ms. Leona Hobbs from Social Media Group. Ms. Hobbs will be in studio with you tonight.
    I’m having your book title added to your bio. Thanks for the heads up.
    The program tonight will commence with a 15-minute 1×1 interview with Lawrence Lessig. He’ll be talking about his essay “Against Transparency” in The New Republic.

    Tonight Thursday October 15, 2009 on The Agenda on TVO will commence with a 15-minute 1×1 interview with Lawrence Lessig, on his essay “Against Transparency” in The New Republic.

    Followed by a panel discussion on Digital Activism with Dr. Megan Boler (University of Toronto), Evgeny Morozov (Foreign Policy) and Andrew Rasiej (Personal Democracy Forum),  and Ms. Leona Hobbs from Social Media Group.

    ]]>     http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/15/on-tvo-8pm-lessig-boler-et-al-on-digital-activism/feed/ 0     Panel October 7: New Media and Repressive Regimes http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/04/panel-october-7-new-media-and-repressive-regimes/ http://www.meganboler.net/2009/10/04/panel-october-7-new-media-and-repressive-regimes/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:39:52 +0000 megan http://www.meganboler.net/?p=748 Bloggers for Human Rights: New Media and Repressive Regimes
    Democratic Development and the Freedom of Expression
    A panel discussion presented by
    Rights & Democracy

    Wednesday, October 7th, 2009, 5 PM to 7 PM
    Fountain Room, National Arts Centre, Ottawa

    The panel will be webcast live on our website.
    Web participants will be invited to submit their questions online.

    Opening remarks by
    The Honourable Steven John Fletcher,
    Minister of State (Democratic Reform)
    Wael Abbas, renowned Egyptian journalist,
    blogger and human rights activist

    Megan Boler, Professor at the University of Toronto,
    author of Digital Media and Democracy

    Micheline (Mika) Lévesque, Program Officer at Rights & Democracy, and project manager for supporting Democratic Voice of Burma’s
    underground journalists

    Wednesday, October 7th, 2009, 5 PM to 7 PM
    Fountain Room, National Arts Centre, Ottawa

    Simultaneous translation.

    Free public event by RSVP: [ http://www.dd-rd.ca/seminar2 ]www.dd-rd.ca/seminar2
    [ http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/media/index.php?id=3036&subsection=news ]http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/media/index.php?id=3036&subsection;=news

    The panel will be webcasted live on our website.
    Web participants will be invited to submit their questions online.
    Details available on the day of the event at http://www.dd-rd.ca/seminar2 ]www.dd-rd.ca/seminar2

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