For those who are attending the Pre-Conference Kick-Off & Networking Event, see you tonight at the Toronto Reference Library (6:00 PM doors open; 7:00 PM discussion begins) for an amazing panel on The Social Cost of the Information Age. If you didn’t register yet for the event, sign up now using the link below.

Please be reminded to register for one of the three concurrent social events we have organized, taking place Friday JUN 28 night, If you didn’t do yet – they are almost sold out (see below).

Finally, we have a good news for you! Our amazing 100+ pages Full-Program is now available online to download, as a PDF [26 MB], check out below. But do NOT print it out. You will get a printed copy onsite.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Paolo Granata
St. Michael’s College / University of Toronto
Conference Chair

Pre-Conference Kick-Off & Networking Event

The Social Cost of the Information Age

Presented by the Toronto Public Library in collaboration with the McLuhan Salons series, a special panel on The Social Cost of the Information Age will kick off Media Ethics: Human Ecology in a Connected World, the 20^thannual convention of the Media Ecology Association.

Come hear from four renowned experts about how the internet today is affecting civil society:
– Mark Kingwell, Philosophy professor, University of Toronto
– Mutale Nkonde, fellow at Data & Society Research Institute in New York City and expert in artificial intelligence governance
– Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications, McGill University
– Bianca Wylie, open government advocate and co-founder of Tech Reset Canada.

NB: At 6pm doors open. Come meet and connect with other people who care about these issues, as well as experts attending the Media Ethics convention. There will be a cash bar selling beer and wine, as well as snacks and a selection of sandwiches and wraps, with a special treat for the MEA delegates.

MEDIA ETHICS:
Human Ecology in a Connected World

Opening Ceremony

SOCIAL EVENTS

You will have a chance to mix it up with the authors, who will of course have their texts available for purchase, or will direct you to the appropriate vendor. ENJOY A COFFEE WITH COLLEAGUES in a moment of animated literary exchange. In the MY ATRIUM (at 11:00 AM and 5:00 PM).

Phones to drones to satellites to space telescopes—that’s the realm explored in the Media(s)cene project, a long-term aesthetic merger of theory and praxis. Based on the concept essay “Hot and Cool in the Media(S)cene,” the mixed-media installation probes the layers of media that make up our techno- environments. Inspired by McLuhan, we imagine a radically different hot-cool scale that spans the endo-, ego-, eco-, and exo-media that surround our planet and extend into deep space.

Conceived and created by Barry Vacker and Julia M. Hildebrand
On display in the MY Atrium, June 27-29.

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University of Toronto’s Myhal Centre

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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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