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change in the global october air!

| October 24, 2011 11:55 pm

it’s been a busy month around the globe…here are, first, the professional updates from Toronto and NYC on dr. boler’s recent  live TV news appearances  (from NASDAQ hdqtrs in Times Square and the ABC studios in NYC, where I was for MobilityShifts conference)–fortunately enough, the conference corresponded with a lively week in October in Liberty Plaza with #OWS–more in that in posts to come.  Meanwhile, in Toronto, the new research team for my 3-year funded SSHRC project “Sociable Media in the Hands of Young Citizens” was attending GA meetings and the occupy toronto events.

Here’s some of the media appearances, and below, an intro to those who will also be updating our research on Youth Engaging Social Media & Social Movements (funded by SSHRC for 2010-2013).

Megan Boler
Occupy Canada protests: Media braces for the worst, while protesters show kinder, gentler, Canadian version
Huffington Post, October 18, 2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/10/18/occupy-canada-protests-media_n_1016908.htmlMegan Boler

‘Wall Street is ook onze straat’
De Standaard, October 17, 2011 http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=UG3H5F2TMegan Boler

Interview as protesters arrested in Liberty Park at Occupy Wall Street protests
CTV Sunday October 16  http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/wall-st-protest/#clip550605Megan Boler

CTV BNN October 14, Interview on Occupy Wall Street movement
http://en.video.sympatico.ca/index.php/en/video/home/1/featured-content/1/celeb-gossip/1/occupy-bay-street-10-14-11-1035-am/1218722289001

 

…and the research teamwill commence posting here the notes we’ve been sending via various communications as our new team assembled this Fall 2011 and events unfolded over the last month.  Welcome Brad Evoy, Rhon Teruelle, and Jamila Park!

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What’s New and Upcoming!

| August 31, 2011 9:03 am

Upcoming Talks:

  • “Children, youth and media”. Panel Discussion with Bronwen Low, Krys Verrall, and Sara Grimes, and Megan Boler, Center for Media and Culture in Education, OISE/UT.   Friday September 30, 4 to 6 pm
  • Mobility Shifts Conference, New School University, New York, October 15, 2011

Boler in the Media:
Megan Boler
Media displays social media double standard (Audio Interview)
CBC Radio – Airplay, August 17, 2011

Megan Boler
UK Social Networks boomerang
All Africa, August 13, 2011

Megan Boler
U.K. riots reveal social media double standard
CBC News, August 10, 2011

Research and Publications: This summer we have been making headway designing our survey to commence my 3-year funded SSHRC Research Project, “Social Media in the Hands of Young Citizens: evolving forms of participatory democracy.”  Dr. Ian Reilly and I are just finishing an essay for publication titled “Satire and Social Change: The Rally to Restore Sanity and the Future of Politics”, and Kelly Ladd and I are finishing up a paper intended for First Monday on “Women Make Vlogs”, summarizing our research into the gender politics and experience of women vloggers on YouTube.

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