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The Summer Institute in Film: Megan Boler – Networking Dissent

May 17, 2011, 2pm-4pm

Megan Boler presents a talk on “Networking Dissent: Digital Publics Taking the Streets” as part of Digital Activism & The Environment: York University’s Summer Institute in Film.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

An affiliate faculty member in the Knowledge Media Design Institute, Department of Theory & Policy Studies at the OISE, University of Toronto, Boler is editor of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times and author of Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silences.

The 2011 Summer Institute in Film: Digital Activism and the Environment focuses on the theory and practice of digital activism in relation to issues of environmental sustainability. Through lectures, seminars, hands-on workshops and collective projects, the institute will investigate contemporary practices of environmental media activism within a broader historical and critical context of social-change cinema.

Location:

Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto

Sponsor:

Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts

Web Site

http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/film/events

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My 2011 six-month research leave thus far most rewarding! In January spent time at UC Santa Barbara working with colleague Chela Sandoval on a book project, Legacies of History of Consciousness (HOC). Gave a talk at UCSB on “Truth Effects and Digital Dissent” at Ctr for Information and Technology (CITS) [watch here] Then to LA, giving another talk at USC to Henry Jenkins and his Civic Paths research group.

In February, joined a non-profit Media Delegation to Havana, Cuba–met with dozens of people working in media, technology, culture and film throughout Havana–amazing, learned *so* much about Cuba on the brink of much change. My “Report on Havana” almost complete!

Now headed to American Ed Research Assoc. in New Orleans where I will participate in 5 sessions, including The John Dewey Symposium; Reimagining Critical Hope: Situated Perspectives Across North-South Contexts (a panel that will include lovely South African colleagues and my former colleague Graham Smith now CEO Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi in New Zealand); Reverence, Listening, and Humor in Education and Informal Learning and Sociable Media in Children’s Culture.

End of April, to UC Santa Cruz for first interview for HistCon book project, with Hayden White, renowned historiographer and semiotician, and key founder of HistCon in late 1970s.

Last major research trip will be again to UC Santa Cruz in June, to attend Donna Haraway’s retirement party and for our book team to conduct interviews with HOC professors including Donna Haraway and Jim Clifford.

Tomorrow–a small keynote at the Worldviews Pre-Conference, an event dedicated to building bridges between journalists and academics!

Finally, great news this week–was awarded a SSHRC 3-year grant to study Youth Civic Engagement through Social Media!