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October at the McLuhan Program Mark your calendars for aoir 4.0 Toronto, being held October 16 to 19 - the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Digital communications networks are changing the way people interact with each other, with profound effects on social relations and institutions. Who is included? Who is excluded? What do we now know about the composition and activities of online communities? Complete information is on the . On October 22 we welcome the winner of the annual Marshall McLuhan Fellowship for Investigative Journalism in the Philippines. This years winner is Ms. Luz Rimban, Broadcast Desk Manager of the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism. Ms. Rimban will speak about obstacles that make investigative reporting for TV a challenge: the ratings game, the race for limited advertising revenues, ownership of the broadcast media that affects the news, competition from cable and the internet. 7 p.m. October 22, 140 St. George Street, Room 307. On October 28, McLuhan Fellow Leo Reitano will give his farewell talk on a Polysphere Model of Education and Communities of Practice. The poly-sphere system is closer to a peer-to-peer model, with feedback and exchange among people. The polysphere model transforms the cultural diversity of the students into richness of educational experience. Note the change in time: 4 - 6 p.m. at the . The International McLuhan Fellowship program is available to selected graduate and post-graduate candidates whose research would contribute to furthering the Programs objectives. More information about the program is available . Global Village Square, the first large-scale implementation of Virtual Public Space, is seeking sponsorships. Are you a visionary leader whose organization would benefit from being associated with a tremendously visible global initiative? Contact for more information, or download our GVS Presentation ( or ). The McLuhan Programs mandate is to encourage understanding of the impacts of technology on culture and society from theoretical and practical perspectives, and thus to continue the ground-breaking work initiated by Marshall McLuhan. The Program offers courses, conducts and supports research, and draws together members of the worldwide community whose interests lie in the inter- and trans-disciplinary studies of culture, communications, technology and gaining new awareness of the actual effects of all of these. Through its research, course offerings, publications, speaking engagements, and experimentation in new and old media, the Program also provides a nexus among the University of Toronto, other institutions throughout the world, all levels of government, industry, educators, artists and the general public. New Thinking from the McLuhan Program: Mark Federman and Derrick de Kerckhoves latest book, McLuhan for Managers - New Tools for New Thinking Available now at and at For more information about the McLuhan Program and our year-round credit and non-credit course offerings, please email or write to McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology 39A Queens Park Crescent East Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C3 or call 416-978-7026 or fax 416-978-5324 or send a message in a bottle or via tribal drums or tin cans on a string The Medium is the Message Coming to visit us? . What are we thinking today? The Cultural Paradox of the Global Village, the paper Mark Federman recently presented at the Localization World conference in Seattle, is now posted in PDF format. Grade 12 students at Fredericton High School in New Brunswick have attempted to understand McLuhan by taking one of his famous quotations and writing a reflection on it. The result is a wonderful collection of impressions that you can find . Senior McLuhan Fellow Twyla Gibsons research series on the Toronto School of Communications begins today. The segments start , with more being added each week. The first half of a new essay on Marshall McLuhans life is posted , along with some suggestions . Photos from Cyborg Echoes DECONversation are . Photos and music clips from Cyborg Echoes DECONcert are which both come from our . Download (pdf), the opening keynote address Mark Federman gave at the Information Highways 2003 Conference. The McLuhan Program Blog is now active and updated daily (more or less). , or click on the red tab above, and see what the blogging team has been observing and thinking about. Support your local McLuhan Program! New information on donations and sponsorships is . Donate! Sponsor an event or a McLuhan Fellow! Bring the Coach House to your organization! Dont just sit there - A multimedia exhibit on Marshall McLuhan has been provided to us by two graduates from the Multimedia Production program at Fachhochschule Kiel, Germany. Visit it . This work is licensed under a . The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology |
