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My fabulous Graduate Research Team will be conducting a workshop with me at a local Toronto Housing Cooperative Community this April 10. Navigating the News: Panel and Discussion with Professor Megan Boler (Social Justice Education, OISE/University of Toronto) and Navigating News Research Team: Kate Jackson, Gordon Katic, Michael Primrose Overwhelmed or confused by the newsContinue reading “Navigating the News Workshop”

I am excited to participate in the upcoming conference on “Democracy and Digital Media” in Boston at MIT.  I look forward to presenting on this panel May 17, with the following scholars: Elizabeth Losh, William & Mary College, “Emoji Democracy: Digital Literacy and Political Communication”Dave Karpf, George Washington University, “Is the Pace of the DigitalContinue reading ““Democracy and Digital Media Conference,” Media in Transition, MIT May 17, 2019″

American Educational Research Association, April 5-9, 2019, Toronto “Skeptical and Affective Literacies: Redefining Critical Media Pedagogies in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era,” Fri, April 5, 12:00 to 2:00pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A “Bringing Affects into Education: The Radical Contributions of Feminist Politics of Emotion and Feminist Pedagogies,” Sat, April 6, 10:25 to 11:55am, Sheraton CentreContinue reading “Boler, upcoming 2019 talks”

Funded by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant, I am convening an international summer symposium on Affect, Propaganda, and Political Imagination. Invited participants will participate in the 3-day working Symposium, from which we anticipate an edited book and special journal issue.  Participants include: Carolyn Pedwell (Kent University); Ed Cohen (Rutgers University), AdiContinue reading “Affect, Propaganda, and Political Imagination Symposium”

Funded by a 2018-19 award from the McLuhan Centre for Technology and Culture, I have convened a Working Group since September to host visiting speakers and reading group on Affect and Algorithms.  Our Working Group includes faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from across UT Departments. We have hosted the following guests: Professor Susanna Paasonen (UniversityContinue reading “Affect & Algorithms, 2018-19 McLuhan Working Group”

I was awarded a Knowledge Synthesis Grant in 2017, “Safeguarding democracies: An interdisciplinary synthesis of digital media studies and the politics of emotion to understand identity, belonging and trust in the post-truth media landscape.”  Working with doctoral student Elizabeth Davis, our research resulted in the following publication: “The Affective Politics of Post-Truth Era: Feeling RulesContinue reading ““The Affective Politics of Post-Truth Era”: New Findings: SSHRC KSG”

This podcast features an interview Dr. Thompson conducted with me, highlighting how I came to focus on questions of emotion and affect in educational theory; questions of media and democracy; and related dialogue on my recent research on democratic possibilities of digital communications. http://www.pipeline.fm/podcast/episode-032-megan-boler This podcast is but one from Dr. Thompson’s podcast series, Pipeline.Continue reading “Podcast: Affect and Emotion in Philosophy and Education, Megan Boler in conversation with Winston Thompson”

(1) Video of my January 30, 2018 McLuhan Salon Keynote sponsored by the Canadian Embassy of Germany and transmediale Megan Boler, “The Affective Politics of Information Warfare” (2) Links (two options) to listen to the Unmasking Cyberwar Panel, February 2 2018 at the transmediale conference in Berlin.  (My talk begins at 43:40) . (Talks co-authoredContinue reading “Links to Boler in Berlin: McLuhan Salon Keynote Lecture, and transmediale panel on Unmasking Cyberwar”

Link to my keynote at the Media Meets Literacy Conference hosted by the Evens Foundation, held in Sarajevo in September 2017.  

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/09/26/how-emotion-trumps-rationality-in-the-world-of-trump.html How emotion trumps rationality in the world of Trump Society is not benefitting from research into how emotions are abused for the sake of profit or ideology, while social media giants and other purveyors of spectacle profit handsomely. “As reported in The New York Times, NYU psychologists studied how ‘moral emotional language’ moves moreContinue reading “Latest Op-Ed: “How emotion trumps rationality in the world of Trump””