Professor Timothy Wu of Columbia Law School gave a free public lecture on Thursday, March 22, 2012, based on material from his most recent book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Alfred A. Knopf: 2010). In The Master Switch, Wu speaks of the cycle of monopolization that has beset the development [...]
Being part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the newspaper, Le Devoir, this all-day conference brings together prominent journalists and researchers from France, Sweden, Canada and the United States to reflect on the independent newspaper in the 21st century: its role, content and public, as well as its editorial structure, financing and [...]
Being part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the newspaper, Le Devoir, this all-day conference brings together prominent journalists and researchers from France, Sweden, Canada and the United States to reflect on the independent newspaper in the 21st century: its role, content and public, as well as its editorial structure, financing and [...]
Being part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the newspaper, Le Devoir, this all-day conference brings together prominent journalists and researchers from France, Sweden, Canada and the United States to reflect on the independent newspaper in the 21st century: its role, content and public, as well as its editorial structure, financing and [...]
What happens when political ideology trumps hard science? What’s the government’s role when it comes to science and innovation? Are Canadian citizens given the opportunity to play a role as well? These are only a few of the questions tackled when Professor of Communication Studies and CRC in Technology & Citizenship Darin Barney sits down for [...]
Angela Davis, the veteran activist and ‘60s icon of black power politics, delivers Media@McGill’s Beaverbrook Lecture, addressing the complex relationship between race, power and the media in the U.S.