The Winter 2020 Season of MNS
Hot MessAge: Media Studies Takes the Call features topics on digital cancel culture, content moderation and the dark sides of social media labour, digital cash and the history of cryptocurrency, technological resistance and digital Islamophobia, and a special night @MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) to discuss the visual politics of colonialism and experimental film and media art.
MARCH 9
Finn Brunton
MARCH 23
Anver Emon, Tanner Mirrlees, Barbara Perry + Moska Rokay
APRIL 6
Shelagh Keeley, Sara Saljoughi + Gaëtane Verna
MARCH 5
Reading McLuhan Reading
New York University, NYU Centre for the Humanities
A conference addressing McLuhan's legacy for the humanities with speaker, Director Sarah Sharma.
MARCH 13
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LOGOUT! 2: Workers Confronting Digital Capitalism
Building on the success of the 2018 edition, Log Out! 2 brings together critical research on how workers from different sectors of digital capitalism across the world confront, negotiate, and disrupt the technologically-mediated conditions of work that structure and mediate their lives. Invited speakers include: Jack Qiu and Sareeta Amrute.
MARCH 13
"Hacking" the Lit Review
Presented by Reprising the Real World of Technology: Ursula Franklin Working Group
Digital Coworking Space, University of Toronto, Mississauga
1:00 - 4:00 pm
MARCH 20
Synthesis + Applying the Real World Today
Presented by Reprising the Real World of Technology: Ursula Franklin Working Group
Inforum Library,140 St. George Street
2:00 - 7:00 pm
We have 8 Working Groups joining us in the Fally of 2019. Visit our Research page to learn all about them and what they have planned for the year.
Two PhD Fellowships, granted through the Faculty of Information Doctoral Program, have been awarded to Grayson Lee and Alexander Ross.
Coach House drawing: Jana Jifi
Photos: Sara Martel
"The Centre is established to advance the understanding of the origins and effects of technology. The object of the Centre is to pursue by a wide variety of approaches an investigation into the psychic and social consequences of technologies."
Marshall McLuhan (Draft Constitution, 1965)
Our annual theme, HotMessAge, addresses how media and technology are central to today's pressing social, economic, and environmental situations. But media and technology are also part of forging new worlds while addressing these challenges.
This year at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology we amplify some of the voices in Media Studies who offer hot takes with the cool possibilities of radical social change.
September 14, 2018
Director Profile
UofT Careers: Sarah Sharma on Being a McLuhan Scholar
March 5, 2018
LOGOUT! Symposium
Disrupting the disruptors: U of T event looks at worker resistance in companies like Uber, Amazon
November 2, 2017
Marshall McLuhan: The Archives of the Future
Famed U of T Professor Marshall McLuhan’s library given United Nations heritage designation
July 21, 2017
Marshall McLuhan's 106th Birthday
Google honoured him with his own Doodle
September 20, 2017
MsUnderstanding Media + New Director
U of T's McLuhan Centre Takes Critical Look at Technology Through the Lens of Feminism
