CONGRESS 2010: CANADA RESEARCH CHAIRS LEAD DISCUSSION ON ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN SOCIETY

Four Canada Research Chairs will take part in a panel session on digital media in society, to be held June 2 at Concordia University during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The session is part of the Canada Research Chairs Program’s 10th-anniversary celebrations.

Catherine Middleton, Canada Research Chair in Communication Technologies in the Information Society, Ryerson University; Pierre Lévy, Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, University of Ottawa; and Xin Wei Sha, Canada Research Chair in New Media Arts, Concordia University, will give presentations of their research and discuss how digital media is transforming the world in which we live. The panel will be moderated by Concordia’s Sandeep Bhagwati, Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory.

Organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Congress brings together thousands of scholars, students, practitioners and policy-makers in a different city each year to share ideas, debate, and enrich research.

Congress 2010 is being hosted by Concordia University, in Montreal, with the theme of “Connected Understanding.”

How Digital Media Is Transforming Society
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Concordia University, MB Building, Room 3-270
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montréal, Québec
Canada