Come out this Friday and catch one of our SMRT Boler team members in action! Jennie Phillips, PhD student at OISE studying disaster response and online communities, will be speaking at the Dynamics of Global Change Workshop this Friday April 26 hosted at Munk School, University of Toronto. She will be delivering a presentation titledContinue reading “Upcoming Talk: The People vs. The System”
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Research Update
Hello to all out there in cyberland! Averie from the Boler Research Team here to post a little update on our progress. We are headed into the last month of our year-long Graduate Research Assistantships working on Dr. Boler’s SSHRC-funded project about “Youth, Social media, and Social movements” — there are still so many thingsContinue reading “Research Update”
Megan’s forthcoming books, essays, talks…
Principal Investigator Dr. Megan Boler and her 2012-13 research team of OISE graduate students http://www.meganboler.net/about-2/about-the-research-team/ are concluding a productive second year of her three-year SSHRC funded research project “Social Media in the Hands of Young Citizens,” a qualitative research project featuring semi-structured interviews with young women participants in new hybrid (on/offline) social movements. Professor BolerContinue reading “Megan’s forthcoming books, essays, talks…”
Hacking, Cracking, and Hacktivism: the many dimensions of hacker practice
This week, we bring you a special post from a friend of the SMRT Boler Research team, Yelena Gyulkhandanyan, University of Toronto. Hacking, Cracking, and Hacktivism: the many dimensions of hacker practice To refer to someone as a hacker often implies that they engage in illicit acts of tapping into secret databases, stealing information, and threateningContinue reading “Hacking, Cracking, and Hacktivism: the many dimensions of hacker practice”
Audio for “Hacktivists, Cyberwarriors and International Relations” Conference
In follow-up to the “Event Summary: “Hacktivists, Cyberwarriors and International Relations” post, we thought we would share the audio for this event. In this recording you will find Stefania Milan’s talk along with the Q&A session with her and Gabriella Coleman that followed. Special thanks to Yelena Gyulkhandanyan for sharing it with us. You can download the fileContinue reading “Audio for “Hacktivists, Cyberwarriors and International Relations” Conference”
SMRT Boler team attends HarassMap conference
Recently two members of the SMRT boler team attended a talk hosted at Munk School of Global Affairs titled “Harassmap: Social Mapping Sexual Harassment and Violence in Egypt.” The presenter, Rebecca T. Chiao, is Co-Founder and Director of HarassMap. Combining community activism with mobile and internet technology, Harassmap is a volunteer initiative that strives toContinue reading “SMRT Boler team attends HarassMap conference”
SMRT Boler Team Attends HarassMap Talk
Recently two members of the SMRT boler team attended a talk hosted at Munk School of Global Affairs titled “Harassmap: Social Mapping Sexual Harassment and Violence in Egypt.” The presenter, Rebecca T. Chiao, is Co-Founder and Director of HarassMap. Combining community activism with mobile and internet technology, Harassmap is a volunteer initiative that strives toContinue reading “SMRT Boler Team Attends HarassMap Talk”
Dr. Chris Hables Gray visits our team, CBC’s Spark
Recently, our team had the privilege of meting with activist and author Dr. Chris Hables Gray a visiting scholar at OISE. Dr. Gray is a lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at California State University at Monterey Bay. He is also onminds the leading minds on cyborg culture, and author ofContinue reading “Dr. Chris Hables Gray visits our team, CBC’s Spark”
forthcoming/upcoming talks and papers
Forthcoming publications: 3rd printing, Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times, ed. Megan Boler, MIT Press, 2013. Matt Ratto and Megan Boler, DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, MIT Press, 2014. Ian Reilly and Megan Boler, “The Rally to Restore Sanity, Pre-politicization, and the Future of Politics” Communication, Culture and Critique (forthcoming 2013) Megan Boler,Continue reading “forthcoming/upcoming talks and papers”
Holiday Celebration Tips from Occupy Christmas
T’is the season for gift giving, yet the folks engaged in Occupy Christmas strive to promote a different message. As the Occupy movement continues to grow, it has taken many shapes and forms since the original Occupy Wallstreet protests. From Occupy  Walmart to Occupy Sandy to OccupySMS, Occupy Christmas is another movement under the occupy umbrella thatContinue reading “Holiday Celebration Tips from Occupy Christmas”