Around the World 2017 Archive – Around the World Conference

LIVE Roundtable: Digital Media in a Post-Truth Era (Maynooth University, Ireland)

Adam Dombovari — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:58:26 +0000

Speakers:
– Dr. Gavan Titley, senior lecturer and head of department of media studies at Maynooth University
– Dr. Jane Suiter, Director of the institute for Future Media and Journalism at Dublin City University
– Ms. Andrea Martin, partner at MediaLawyer solicitors
– Mr. Peter McGuire, news and features journalist for the Irish Times and Huffington Post
– Prof. Chris Brunsdon, Professor of Geocomputation, and Director of the National Center for Geocomputation at Maynooth University

Chairs:
– Mr. Neale Rooney, researcher based with the Letters of 1916 project
– Mr. John Chambers
– Dr. Susan Schreibman, Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of An Foras Feasa

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Around the World 2017 – Closing Remarks

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:44:57 +0000

Closing remarks from the Geoffrey Rockwell, Kule Institute (Kias) Director and Organizer of Around the World 2017: Digital Media in a Post-Truth Era.

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Jordan Kinder: Legitimation Through Circulation: Petroturfing and/as Fake News (UAlberta)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:42:05 +0000

Jordan Kinder is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta.

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Luciana Molina Queiroz: Praxis and Media in Walter Benjamin: When Anyone Can Produce Truth (Brazil)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:40:53 +0000

Luciana Molina Queiroz is a PhD Candidate at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, and visiting researcher at the University of Alberta.

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Nailisa Tanner: Media Portrayals of the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project (UAlberta)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:39:33 +0000

Nailisa Tanner is an MA student at the University of Alberta.

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Sonja Sapach: Learning to be Human in the “Post-Truth-Ish” Worlds of Video Games (UAlberta)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:38:39 +0000

Sonja Sapach is a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta.

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Digital Publics: Transformation and Translation (Fordham University)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:36:40 +0000

Digital Publics: Transformation and Translation (Fordham University, New York, USA) Speakers: Shira Atkinson, Scholarly Communications and Distance Learning Librarian, Fordham University Kindra Becker-Redd, Reference and...

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Fouad Oveisy: The Predictable Trump (UC Irvine)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:35:45 +0000

Fouad Oveisy is a PhD Student at UC Irvine.

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Zachary Palmer & Rob Budac: Analyzing Gamergate through Large-Scale Twitter Data (UAlberta)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:34:34 +0000

Robert Budac and Zachary Selman Palmer are MA Students at the University of Alberta.

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Peter Krapp: What’s New About Fake News? (UC Irvine)

Chelsea Miya — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:33:09 +0000

Dr. Peter Krapp is a professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine.

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