DRAFT PROGRAMVers. 2.5 (June 3, 2019)

Toronto, (26) 27-30 June 2019Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship

55 St George St, Toronto

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Program at-a-glance

WednesdayJUNE 26

Toronto Reference Library

789 Yonge Street, Toronto

ThursdayJUNE 27

Myhal Centre55 St George St, Toronto

FridayJUNE 28

Myhal Centre55 St George St, Toronto

SaturdayJUNE 29

Myhal Centre55 St George St, Toronto

SundayJUNE 30

St. Michael’s College81 St. Mary Street, Toronto

7:00 PM

Pre-Conference Kick-Off & Networking Event

Presented by the Toronto Reference Library in collaboration with the McLuhan Salons series, a special panel on Civil Society and Digital Capitalism will kick off Media Ethics: Human Ecology in a Connected World, the 20th annual convention of the Media Ecology Association.The event will commence with moderated probative discussion within a panel of top leaders and thinkers, and will engage the audience, followed by a networking event with a special treat for the MEA delegates.

9:00 AM

Opening Ceremony

9:30 AM

Session 1.1

11:00 AMNetworking BreakMedia (S)cene Opening

11:30 AM

Session 1.2

9:15 AM

Greetings

9:30 AM

Session 2.1

11:00 AM

Networking Break& McLuhan Salon

11:30 AM

Session 2.2

12:50 PM

Group Photo

9:15 AM

Greetings

9:30 AM

Session 3.1

11:00 AM

Networking Break& McLuhan Salon

11:30 AM

Session 3.2

9:30 AM

MEA Business MeetingSt. Michael’s College

Charbonnel Lounge81 St. Mary Street, Toronto

11:00 AM PM

McLuhan Walking TourSt. Michael’s College

McLuhan CentreUofT Campus

1:00 PMLunch

1:00 PMLunch

1:00 PMLunch

2:00 PM

Session 1.3

3:30 PM

Session 1.4

5:00 PMNetworking Break& McLuhan Salon

5:30 PM

Session 1.5

2:00 PM

Session 2.3

3:30 PM

Session 2.4

5:00 PMNetworking Break& McLuhan Salon

5:30 PM

Session 2.5

2:00 PM

Session 3.3

3:30 PM

Session 3.4

5:00 PMNetworking Break& McLuhan Salon

5:30 PM

Session 3.5

7:30 PM

Opening ReceptionHart House

7:30 PM

Social EventsVarious venues

7:30 PM

Awards Gala DinnerSt. Michael’s CollegeBrennan Hall

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

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REGISTRATION ATRIUM

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship (55 St George St, Toronto)

Registration Desk & Info Point (ATRIUM):Thursday June 27: 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM

Friday June 28: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PMSaturday June 29: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Exhibit Hours: 9 AM – 7:00 PM

Opening CeremonyThursday June 27 – 9:00 AM

Opening Ceremony MY150

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

Welcoming Remarks by the representatives of the institutions

Session 1.1Thursday June 27 – 9:45 AM

Opening Address MY150

Ethics and the Study of Media as Environments

Lance StrateFordham University

Respondent:Thomas Cooper, Emerson College

Networking & Coffee Break11:00 AM

Media (S)cene Exhibition Opening ATRIUM

Creators: Barry Vacker (Temple University) and Julia M. Hildebrand (Drexel University)

Session 1.2Thursday June 27 – 11:30 AM

Panel 1.2.1 Chair: Sara van den Berg MY150

From Storyteller to Cyberspace: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong (1/3)Werner KelberRice University

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Panel 1.2.2 Chair: TBD MY315

Digital (In)EqualityHow Black Youth are Transforming the Digital WorldS. Craig WatkinsThe University of Texas at Austin

The Indigenous mediatic anti-synchronization: Example of a new PaideiaMariana AmozurrutiaUniversidad Panamericana

ICTs and Social JusticeBenedetta GiovanolaUniversity of Macerata

Anonymity in Cyberspace and the Ethics of Electronic Civil DisobedienceTim MichaelsSlippery Rock University

Panel 1.2.3 Chair: Cathy Adams MY320

Education in the Age of AlgorithmsThe Ethics of the Educational Use of Small DataEllen RoseUniversity of New Brunswick

Biosocial Learning Environments: Emerging Ethical Cautions for EducatorsRoger SaulUniversity of New Brunswick

Towards an Ethics of Technology for EducatorsCathy AdamsUniversity of Alberta

Panel 1.2.4 Chair: Karen Lollar MY330

New RobotsI Can’t Feel My Avatar: Tao Lin’s Literary RobotismStuart PurcellUniversity of Glasgow

Coming to a Hospital/ Business/ Living Room Near You: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Social Robot Use in Shifting ContextsAndrea Slane and Isabel PedersenUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology

Woman as a Machine (or the other way around): the rise of the personal digital assistantsLuiza dos SantosFederal University of Rio

Grande do Sul

Hacking Alexa: Art and Activism in the Age of Smart AppliancesCarolyn GuertinWestern University

Panel 1.2.5 Chair: Jaqueline Mcleod Rogers MY370

McLuhan: Arts and EthicsJaqueline Mcleod Rogers, University of Winnipeg; Adam Lauder, University of Toronto; Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna;

Henry Svec, University of Waterloo; Jody Berland, York University; Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; and Alex Kuskis, Gonzaga University.

Panel 1.2.6 Chair: James C. Morrison MY380

Journalism Under PressureThe Return of the MogulsDan KennedyNortheastern University

From “They Wouldn’t Print It If It Wasn’t True” to “You Can’t Believe A Word They Say.” The Persistence of Fake News in the Media EnvironmentDonna HalperLesley University

The Reshaping of News Narrative Ethics in the New Media EcosystemJin Hua and Qing SunXiangtan University

Journalism credibility on the digital media ecosystemEugenia Barichello and Luciana Menezes CarvalhoUniversidade Federal de Santa Maria

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Session 1.3Thursday June 27 – 2:00 PM

Panel 1.3.1 Chair: Vincent Casaregola MY150

From Storyteller to Cyberspace: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong (2/3)Vincent CasaregolaSaint Louis University

Abigail LambkeAvila University

Thomas ZlaticSt. Louis College of Pharmacy

Panel 1.3.2 Chair: John Dowd MY315

Digital PersonaExpecting More From Others: Social Media, Loneliness, and Formal CauseJermaine MartinezKutztown University

From Calculable Person to Calculable Self: The illogical, but lovable, system of rankings and ratingsErnest HakanenDrexel University

Gathering Again Anew: Subjects, Objects, and the Body as Media in IoTJohn SebergerUniversity of California, Irvine

Speak No Evil: On Orality, Love, and EthicsMichael PlughManhattan College

Panel 1.3.3 Chair: TBD MY320

Designing EcosystemsThe emergence of “collaborative mobility”Yi-Fan LiuNational Chengchi University

Ethical perception in artifcial environments: The media ecology of VRMichael GrabowskiManhattan College

Towards Platform ArchaeologyNathan RambukkanaWilfrid Laurier University

Why the next communication medium should be designed and not inventedPeter ZakrzewskiSchulich School of Business

Panel 1.3.4 Chair: Philip Morais MY330

Hyper-IntelligenceRestorative Justice in Artifcial IntelligenceAdnan HadziUniversity of Malta

The Emperor of Strong AI Has No Clothes: Limits to Artifcial IntelligenceRobert Logan, University of

Toronto and Adriana Braga, Pontifcal Catholic University

of Rio de Janeiro

Ethics: a bridge from now to a sustainable hyper mediated and hyper connected worldSilvia Guerra Molina, Gabriel Raimundo, Janaina Barretta, Carolina Santos, Guilherme Oliveira, Gabriel Silva Souza, Tainá Patriani, and Acauã BonifácioUniversity of São Paulo

Super-intelligence and Post-Humanity—A Catastrophe? So What?Sheldon RichmondIndependent Scholar

Panel 1.3.5 Chair: Hamide Elif Uzumcu MY370

Environmental PerspectivesDomesticating the Clouds: Weather Modifcation in China 1958-2018Jia WengYale University

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Climate CrisisMaria F Roca and

Andrea LynnFlorida Gulf Coast University

Echo/Silo: Media Ecology, the Divided Brain, and Digital RetribalizationLeon CerdenaIndependent Scholar

Citizen Monitoring and Media ecology: making the politics again thinkableMarcelo Gantos, Simone Rodrigues Barreto, and Carlos Sarmet Moreira SmirdeleUniversidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense

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Panel 1.3.6 Chair: Réa Beaumont MY380

Cinematic EffectDCP / Digital Cinema PoliticsPolina TeifIndependent Scholar

Towards a Multi-Layered Structure of Digital Identities in Cyber Space and CinemaSami ÇöteliDogus University

Highrise: The Director’s Vision within the Post-cinematicSeth FeldmanYork University

Another Take: Found Footage Cinema and Electrotechnic Retrieval of OralityIzabella Pruska-OldenhofYork University

Panel 1.3.7 Chair: Thom Gencarelli MY420

Truth, Facts, “Alternative Facts,” News, “Fake News,” and PropagandaTruth, Facts, “Alternative Facts,” News, “Fake News,” and PropagandaPeter K FallonRoosevelt University

Navigating the UnregulatedInformation Ecology

Thom GencarelliManhattan College

Ethical choices of media ecology in the post-truth environmentAndrey MiroshnichenkoYork University

Pierre Trudeau’s media hypeJonathan R. SlaterSUNY Plattsburgh

Panel 1.3.8 Chair: Jaqueline Mcleod Rogers MY430

Human UrbanscapesUrban Liminal Architecture as Media: Cultural Techniques and Chains of OperationsCarolin AronisColorado State University

Augmented Reality as means of Decolonization in Israel/PalestineLia TarachanskyYork University

International Street Art: Aesthetic Appropriation and ConscienceMarshall SoulesVancouver Island University

The Mediated Reality of Mobile Digital Maps and a Sense of Place: The Naver MapDong-Hoo LeeUniversity of Incheon

Panel 1.3.9 Chair: Matt Thomas MY440

Toward a Media Ecology EthicsSheila NayarGreensboro College

Phil NicholsBaylor University

Cassie BrownellUniversity of Toronto

Matt ThomasKirkwood Community College

Panel 1.3.10 Chair: Valerie Peterson MY480

Ethics & Human Ecology in a Technological & Economically Connected WorldTeresita Garza, St. Edward's University; Valerie Peterson, Grand Valley State University; Brenton Malin, University of Pittsburgh; Janine Khammash, St. Edward's University; Jennifer Reinwald, University of Pittsburgh; Ambrose Curtis, University

of Pittsburgh; and Austin Hestdalen, Duquesne University.

Panel 1.3.11 Chair: Ellen Rose MY490

Extending the FieldInformation-Advertising-Propaganda in a Mediatized Society: Bernard Charbonneau’s Ecological Critique of Media PowerChristian RoyCentre international de

formation européenne

Introducing Ursula Franklin as a Media EcologistMatthew McGuireUniversity of New Brunswick

Music and AirPods: Adorno as Media EcologistScott Haden Church, Brigham Young University, Paul Grosswiler, University of Maine, and Brent Yergensen,

Brigham Young University-Hawaii.

Contextualizing a Classic: Putting the “Beit” back into Harold Innis’s Empire and CommunicationsWilliam BuxtonConcordia University

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Session 1.4Thursday June 27 – 3:30 PM

Panel 1.4.1 Chair: Stephanie Bennett MY150

From Storyteller to Cyberspace: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong (3/3)Sara van den BergSaint Louis University

Eberly BarnesUniversity of California San Diego

Jerry HarpLewis & Clark College

Paul SoukupSanta Clara University

Panel 1.4.2 Chair: Jeremy Hunsinger MY315

Open WorldMonopolies of Knowledge, Academic Journal Ethics and Open AccessJ.O. ElizondoUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa

Electronic Media and Professional Ethics: Whom do you Trust?Thomas ZlaticSt. Louis College of Pharmacy

Awakening and Recall: Local Narratives from the Acoustic WorldYuko TsuchiyaHiroshima University of Economics

The End of the End of Print: Media Ecology and Scholarly CommunicationsSteven WeilandMichigan State University

Panel 1.4.3 Chair: Paul Grosswiler MY320

Communities and NarrativesNaturally Accessible: Understanding Ecologies and our impacts on them through Video GamesZeeshan SiddiqueIndiana University of Pennsylvania

Giyasuddin SiddiqueBurdwan University

The Evolution and Relevance of Community Media in the 21st CenturyLori Ramos, Diana Peck,

Tiernan Doyle, and Jennifer Alfaro, William Paterson

University

“LOL you go to Gulag”: The role of Sassy Socialist Memes in LeftbookBernadette BowenBowling Green State University

Displaced black histories, displaced Black people: Media-circulated narratives of Viola Desmond and the politics of space in Halifax, Nova ScotiaCarmen WarnerCarleton University

Panel 1.4.4 Chair: Yoni Van Den Eede MY330

The Algorithm in the RoomGerrymandered Places: The Geography of Algorithmic Power in AmericaJoshua SynenkoTrent University

Coding Happiness: Algorithmic Representation of Human EmotionLyuba EnchevaRyerson University

How AI is driving conversations in Social Media EnvironmentsFernando GutiérrezTecnológico de Monterrey

How AI Is Reshaping Freedom of Choice: The Ethical Infuence of Algorithms-Based ICTs on Human BehaviorSimona TiribelliUniversity of Macerata

Panel 1.4.5 Chair: Carolin Aronis MY370

Women and Media EcologyWomen in the media ecology métier: A brief reportAdriana BragaPontifcal Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

The lifelong friendship of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Marshall McLuhanJaqueline McLeod RogersUniversity of Winnipeg

Mapping the Territory: A FempoeticsAdeena KarasickPratt Institute

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Panel 1.4.6 Chair and Discussant: Megan Boler MY380

Trust, Skepticism, and Discomfort in Post-Truth Era: Affective Approaches to Media EducationGordon KaticUniversity of Toronto

Michael PrimroseUniversity of Toronto

Andrea Vela AlarcónUniversity of Toronto

Kate ReyesUniversity of Toronto

Panel 1.4.7 Chair: Maria Perganti MY420

A Humanistic Take on McLuhanMcLuhan's Hermeneutic of SubjectivityAmanda SevillaYoungstown State University

The Analogy of Proper Proportionality in McLuhan’s Media EcologyJustin BonannoDuquesne University

A McLuhanesque Apology for a Pedagogy of Academic CitizenshipLynne AlexandrovaUniversity of Toronto

Figure Finnegan As Play GroundGerald FialkaMarshall McLuhan-Finnegans

Wake Reading Club

Panel 1.4.8 Chair: Martin LevinsonRespondent: Lance Strate

MY430

Responses to the 2018 Korzybski Lecture, “Amazing Ourselves to Death”Eva BergerCollege of Management and Academic Studies, Rishon

LeZion Israel

Karen LollarMetropolitan State University

Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan

College

Edward Tywoniak, Saint

Mary's College of California

Panel 1.4.9 Chair: Laura Trujillo Liñán MY440

Philosophical Refections about New Media EnvironmentsA Philosophical Approach to Artifcial Intelligence and the Dehumanization of RelationshipsLaura Trujillo LiñánUniversidad Panamericana

Social Networks and

Mind in an Artifcial Intelligence Era: A

Media Ecology Perspective

María-Teresa Nicolás-Gavilán, Laura Trujillo-Liñán, and María-De-Los-Ángeles Padilla-LavínUniversidad

Panamericana

Adam’s Paradox: Apple or no Apple?Jose IslasUniversidad Panamericana

The media Construction of “Actuality”Tatiana Arce de la TorreUniversidad Panamericana

Media, technology and human conditionAlejandro BiciegUniversidad Panamericana

Panel 1.4.10 Chair: Adam Lauder MY480

The Reconfgured EyeRe/generation: Mapping operations of [the] strange in contemporary [art] photographyHelma SawatzkySimon Fraser University

Humanity versus Technology - “The Beauty” of war in the Global VillageKalina Kukielko-Rogozinska,

University of Szczecin, and Krzysztof Tomanek,

Jagiellonian University

Media and Messages in the Film Electric DreamsIain BairdIndependent Scholar

The Instagram GenerationAlexander NethercuttIndependent Scholar

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Panel 1.4.11 Chair: Peter Zakrzewski MY490

Cultural InterfacesMedia Ethics, Mixed Reality, and Training First RespondersCollette SnowdenUniversity of South Australia

What You Touch is (NOT) What You See. The Haptic Unconscious and Digital In-Corporeality in The Airport SpaceMarek WojtaszekUniversity of Lodz

Transmedia narrative design: non-fction experiences developed at the National University of Rosario, ArgentinaAnahí LovatoNational University of Rosario

New Ethos for Education in the Digital EcosystemMagda PischetolaPontifícia Universidade

Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Networking & Coffee BreakThursday June 27 – 5:00 PM

McLuhan Salon/Book Launch ATRIUM

Don't Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation EconomyBy S. Craig Watkins, Beacon Press (2019)

Session 1.5Thursday June 27 – 5:30 PM

Panel 1.5.1 Chair: Catherine McIntyre MY150

Ethics of AI

Graham TaylorUniversity of Guelph

Mutale Nkonde Data & Society Research Institute

Derrick de KerckhoveUniversity of Toronto

Opening ReceptionThursday June 27 – 7:30 PM

University of Toronto’s Hart House7 Hart House Circle, Toronto (West Entrance)

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Session 2.1Friday June 28 – 9:30 AM

Panel 2.1.1 Chair: Christine Tappolet MY150

Algorithmic Accountability

Dominic MartinUniversité du Québec à Montréal

Jocelyn MaclureUniversité Laval

Sarah VilleneuveBrookfeld Institute

Networking & Coffee BreakFriday June 28 –11:00 AM

McLuhan Salon/Book Launch ATRIUM

Radiohead: Music for a Global FutureBy PHIL ROSE, Rowman & Littlefeld (2019)

Session 2.2Friday June 28 – 11:30 AM

Panel 2.2.1 Chair: Aaron Shull MY150

Building the Inclusive City

Kurtis McBrideMiovision

Bianca WylieTech Reset Canada

David GoodisIPC of Ontario

Group PhotoFriday June 28 – 12:50 PM

Group Photo ATRIUM

King’s College Circle, University of Toronto

Session 2.3Friday June 28 – 2:00 PM

Panel 2.3.1 Chair: TBD MY150

Virtual returns: new media, geography and ecology in “Jerusalem, We Are Here”Interactive documentaryDorit Naaman, Queen’s UniversityJerusalem, We Are Here is an interactive documentary that digitally brings Palestinians back into the Jerusalem neighbourhoods

from which they were expelled in 1948. A virtual tour of Palestinian Jerusalem through the interactive platform. The presentation will introduce the various components of the project, and show a few short flms, and introduce the mapping

platform. The presentation will be followed by a discussion.

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Panel 2.3.2 Chair: Kim Kierans MY315

Journalism in Uncertain TimesTechnology and misinformation: the social media algorithms and its relation with the journalism integrityNatanael Damasceno de Figueiredo NetoPontifcia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Opportunities and Challenges on New Technology in Journalism and CommunicationYunfang Cui and Yuhao LiuCommunication University of

China

Challenges and opportunities for Peace Journalism in online mediaJorge SalhaniUniversidade Estadual Paulista

Júlio de Mesquita Filho

Live Blogging: The Ethical Challenges of Bit-by-Bit JournalismOlivier NyirubugaraThe Hague University of

Applied Sciences & Erasmus University Rotterdam

Panel 2.3.3 Chair: Gerald Erion MY320

Ethical Questions for Human-Technology RelationshipsEngineering Education: An Ethical Dilemma Missy AlexanderWestern Connecticut State University

Alexa, I’m Sorry: Problems of Tech Abuse Bill PetkanasWestern Connecticut State University

Social media and ethics in an age of no-context Eva Berger, The College of

Management Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion Israel

The Ship Will Sink – Lewis Mumford, Roderick Seidenberg, and the problem of “post-historic man.”Zachary LoebUniversity of Pennsylvania

Panel 2.3.4 Chair: Jonathan R. Slater MY330

Frontiers of AdvertisingSocial Credit Scores and the Attention Merchants of the Public InternetAdam DeanSusquehanna University

“Cyber warfare” in fashion: Cambridge Analytica and the “weaponization” of consumer brand preferencesRebecca HallidayRyerson University

Scientifcated Deception: Social and Ethical Implications in Anti-Ageing MarketingAmina MireCarleton University

Native Advertising: Boundary Object Between Journalism and MarketingMarie-Eve Carignan,Dany Baillargeon, Université

de Sherbrooke; Alexandre Coutant, Université du

Québec à Montréal; Mikaëlle Tourigny, Élyse Dionne,

Université de Sherbrooke

Panel 2.3.5 Chair: Melody Devries MY350

Confronting Ecologies of Emotion: Design, Implementation, and the [Social] User ExperienceTowards Emotional Game CharactersGeneva SmithMcMaster University

Digital World Creation and Affective Persuasion Tanya PobudaRyerson University

Affective Avatar Creation: Character Customization Practices and Emotional AffordancesNoel BrettMcMaster University

Ecologies of Belonging and Violence: Collective Avatars and Community AffectMelody DevriesRyerson University

Panel 2.3.6 Chair: Kalina Kukielko-Rogozinska MY370

Civil DiscourseAvatar and Virtual RealityXiaowei HuangUniversity of Macau

The Rhetoric of Adultery in the Age of Cyberspace: The Ashley Madison Effect?Tiffany A PetriciniPenn State Shenango

In Media Res: understanding confuences of media and ethicsPhilip MoraisUniversity of Windsor

Inappropriate Necessities: Requirement of Representation Among Criminal Organizations in a Social Mediatized Life WorldJeff HeydonWilfrid Laurier University

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Panel 2.3.7 Chair: Julianne H. Newton MY380

McLuhan RevisitedTeaching McLuhan’s Understanding MediaCorey AntonGrand Valley State UniversityPaolo GranataUniversity of Toronto

Why Study Media?Andrew McLuhanMcLuhan Institute

McLuhan: Ethics and CivicsJaqueline Mcleod RogersUniversity of Winnipeg

Awareness, Involvement and DetachmentRobert LoganUniversity of Toronto

Panel 2.3.8 Chair: Edward E. Tywoniak MY420

Media LogicSoft Power, Weaponized Narratives, and Ideological Filtering: Anticipating the Ethical IssuesRichard WilsonTowson UniversityMichael NestorThe Hussman Institute For Autism

Disruptive Media Content: A Mobile Meditation App as Equipment for Ethical LivingCharles SoukupUniversity of Northern Colorado

Performance ruptures in social network sites: expressive (in)coherence in Brazilian casesBeatriz PolivanovUniversidade Federal Fluminense

The Media Ecology of PaparazziSalvatore FallicaNew York University

Panel 2.3.9 Chair: Margaret Cassidy MY430

Critical Media PerspectivesUnderstanding the Medium of ExchangeAustin HestdalenDuquesne University

Free Will, Persuasive Technology, and the Attention EconomyMichael KlenkDelft University of Technology

Disadvantages of LinkedIn: A Profound Effect on Our CulturePaige LeeBrigham Young University

Media Ethics and Internet GovernanceRobert ScottRyerson University

Panel 2.3.10 Chair: Anita Ogurlu MY440

TheophilosophyWhy Jesus Didn't Write, Or Wrote Only Once, or Twice, in the SandRead SchuchardtWheaton College

Catholic Media: Inside & and OutsideAdam BajanTexas A&M University

Summa Contra Technophiles: The Complementarity of Media Ecology and Catholic Social ThoughtBrett RobinsonUniversity of Notre Dame

Media Ethology in a Connected WorldNeal ThomasLaurier University

Panel 2.3.11 Chair: Phil Rose MY480

Probing Silvan Tomkins: The Mediation AffectMedia Environments, Affective Priming, and Nonconscious EmotionsMaria McManusClaremont Graduate University

Introducing Silvan Tomkins: From Gnosis to PraxisDuncan LucasTomkins Institute, Mohawk College

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swingLauren AbramsonTomkins Institute

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Panel 2.3.12 Chair: Barry Vacker MY490

Art EnvironmentsDeep Media Ecology –or–The Ecology of DreamingMark HagenInternational Institute for

Dream Research

Trading the Terrain for the Map: Frank Gillette’s Six Matrices and the Limits of Traditional Media EcologyNicolas HoltMcGill University

Modern Art: Human Ecology Beyond Media EcologySusan BarnesIndependent Scholar

Arts promotion and media ecology, the adaptation of classical music of new forms to approach publicsYolanda Montejano and Gabriel RojasUniversidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Session 2.4Friday June 28 – 3:30 PM

Panel 2.4.1 Chair: Andrew McLuhan MY150

McLuhan Unclaimed: Toronto JungleA documentary by Richard Altman, Onceness Inc.A Curative Discovery derived from hours of unheard audio interviews with Marshall McLuhan, video conversations conducted

in February 2016 with Eric McLuhan as well as a Maelström of material found in the 6,000 items within McLuhan's personal working Library. This epistolary journey plays across the screen like Stan Brakhage producing a segment for MSCNNBC as a

podcast on YouTube streamed thru TwitchTok.

Panel 2.4.2 Chair: Scott Church MY315

SoundscapesNature Sound Mobile Apps: Salvage Ethnography 2.0?Colin TuckerIndependent Scholar

Spotify’s Gender GapRingo JonesSaint Louis University

Alison PlaceUniversity of Arkansas

Opening Pandora’s Box: Algorithms as Arbiters of Musical Taste in Streaming Platforms and Internet RadioRéa BeaumontUniversity of Toronto

Jazz, Technology, and Individual Freedom of Expression in ChinaEugene MarlowCity University of New York

Panel 2.4.3 Chair: Anne F. MacLennanYork University

MY320

Privacy MattersConsent, Privacy and the Ethics of Digital AdvertisingDavid RheamsThe University of Texas at

Dallas

Powerlessness and PersonalizationVictoria I. BurkeUniversity of Guelph

Robin BurkeUniversity of Colorado Boulder

Agency and Security Dilemma: Children’s data privacy within parental boundariesClaudio Riva and Hamide Elif UzumcuUniversity of Padova

Is this an Anti-humanist Data Ethics?Jeremy HunsingerWilfrid Laurier University

Panel 2.4.4 Chair: Cathy Adams MY330

Digital EthosAI as Medium and Message in the (Emerging) Healthcare EthosJulia ZarbUniversity of Toronto

The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Health: Leveraging Affordances and Mitigating ThreatsRonan HallowellUniversity of Southern

California

Thumb down: how digital interactions are reshaping our bodies and setting the stage for new human ecologiesAlessandro Efrem ColombiFree University of Bolzano

The Ethics of a Forced Unplug – A Tale for an Accelerated CultureDavid PaternoRoyal Melbourne Institute of

Technology

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Panel 2.4.5 Chair: Phil Rose MY350

Remembering Paul Heyer: Mentor, Collaborator, Colleague and FriendPaul Heyer: Contributions to Media EcologyPhil RoseMcMaster University

Paul Heyer and ExcerptionDarren WershlerConcordia University

Paul Heyer as cartographer of communication thought's historyWilliam BuxtonConcordia University

Media History as All History: Introducing Media History through Paul Heyer's LensJade MillerWilfrid Lauier University

Innis or Ayahuasca?: Paul Heyer as Trickster/Shaman of Medium TheoryAndrew HermanWilfrid Laurier University

Panel 2.4.6 Chair: Miles Mancini MY370

Television and Comic Books as Coursework to Explore Ethical IssuesPanel on an Integrated Curriculum

Panelists: Roberto Garcia, Miles Mancini, Maria Roca, Mary Walch, Florida Gulf Coat University

Panel 2.4.7 Chair: Lance StrateFordham University

MY380

“No Poetry After Auschwitz”: The Medium, The Message, and the HolocaustThe Ghost of Shoah is the MessageDavid Sobelman, Deep Space Media

Stumble Stones Speak: The Mediated SidewalkGary Gumpert, Urban Communication

FoundationSusan Drucker, Hofstra University

Respondents:

Carolin Aronis, Colorado State University Adeena Karasick, Pratt Institute

Panel 2.4.8 Chair: Barry Liss MY420

Global McLuhanBrazilian visions on McLuhanRodrigo BarbosaFederal University of

Pernambuco

Reading McLuhan in JapaneseJunichi MiyazawaAoyama Gakuin University

The hard presence of McLuhan in Ibero-AmericaOctavio IslasUniversidad Panamericana

Marshall McLuhan regarding GreeceMaria Perganti andKostas TheologouNational Technical University of Athens

Panel 2.4.9 Chair: Erik Garrett MY430

Weapons of Math Destruction: a Media Ecological DiscussionMichael PlughManhattan College

Valerie PetersonGrand Valley State University

Erik GarrettDuquesne University

Panel 2.4.10 Chair: Read Schuchardt MY440

A Phenomenological TakeIlliterate or Diseased? Two Models for Media EthicsYoni Van Den EedeFree University of Brussels

Connotation as Content: A Conceptualization of Symbolization with Ethical ImplicationsPaul John LippertEast Stroudsburg University

Critical Moral Realism as an approach to thinking about, and teaching, ethics in communication studies.Wade RowlandYork University

Formal Theory and the Imbrication ModelMatthew S. LindiaGeorgetown University

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Panel 2.4.11 Chair: Carolyn Wilson MY480

Data EthicsMapping News Article Content to Knowledge and Event Graph Representations for Validation and ReasoningDamir Cavar and Elaine MonaghanIndiana University Bloomington

A Graph Database and the Trivium: A Matter of InterpretationFred CheyunskiIndependent Scholar

Web 3.0: It’s the end of the world and I feel fne-ishMel RachoUniversity of Toronto

Pull yourself up by the bootcamp: rethinking the cultural value of computer codeSeonaid WatsonCarleton University

Panel 2.4.12 Chair: Fernando Gutiérrez MY490

MediasphereUnderstanding the Central Role of the Mass Media in the Construction of Public CrisesDuncan KoerberBrock University

In Defense of Agency: The Platform and Ecological Methodologies in Protest NetworksChristina FoustUniversity of Denver

The Rhetorical Public Sphere as an Ideal Model for Democratic Assessment of Emerging TechnologiesShalom ChalsonNational University of

Singapore

What Do You Meme? Explorations in Internet EnvironmentsJulia RichmondDrexel University

Networking & Coffee BreakFriday June 28 –5:00 PM

McLuhan Salon/Book Launch ATRIUM

Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital AgeBy Richard Stursberg, Lorimer (2019)

Session 2.5Friday June 28 – 5:30 PM

Panel 2.5.1 Chair: Nora Young MY150

Misinformation and Responsible Journalism

Mathew Ingram Columbia Journalism Review

Social EventsFriday June 28 – 7:30 PM

The Medium is the Muse Robert Gill Theatre

20 St. George St., Toronto

With Adeena Karasick, Bill Blisset, Lance Strate, Barry Liss, Martin H.

Levinson, Lillian Allen, Robert Albrecht, BW Powe, and more..

Black Mirror NightItalian Cultural Institute496 Huron St., Toronto

With Davide Bennato, Siobhan O’Flynn, Isabel Pedersen, Luca De

Biase, Barry Vacker, and more...

An Ecology of MindMcLuhan Centre

39A Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto

With Nora Batesonand Dennis O’Hara

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Session 3.1Saturday June 29 – 9:30 AM

Panel 3.1.1 Chair: Jeff Jarvis MY150

More Social, More Human

Mark KingwellUniversity of Toronto

Ramona PringleRyerson University

Douglas RushkoffCity University of New York

Networking & Coffee BreakSaturday June 29 – 11:00 AM

McLuhan Salon/Book Presentation ATRIUM

Slow MediaBy Jennifer Rauch, Oxford University Press (2018)

Session 3.2Saturday June 29 – 11:30 AM

Panel 3.2.1 Chair: Luca De Biase MY150

One Science, Many Values

Don HowardUniversity of Notre Dame

Elena LambertiUniversity of Bologna

Jason RobertArizona State University

Session 3.3Saturday June 29 – 2:00 PM

Panel 3.3.1 Presented by Andrew McLuhan MY150

Eric McLuhan’s last speech: “Media Ecology in the 21st Century”On May 18h 2018, Eric McLuhan delivered a speech entitled ‘Media Ecology in the 21st Century’ to those assembled for the launch of a new doctoral program in communication and media study at the Universidad de la Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia.

The speech, McLuhan’s strongest statement to date on the subject of media ecology and its future, would end up being his last word on the subject, as he died suddenly the next morning in his hotel room.

Panel 3.3.2 Chair: Arthur W. Hunt III MY320

Propaganda, Censorship, and Free SpeechPaul A. SoukupSanta Clara University

Robert NanneyUniversity of Tennessee at Martin

Arthur W. Hunt IIIUniversity of Tennessee at Martin

Read Mercer SchuchardtWheaton College

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Panel 3.3.3 Chair: Michael Plugh MY330

TechnoethicsElectronic Control Weaponry; a Life Saver? The Corporate Shaping of Non-Lethality as Safety and the Medically Authorized Weaponization of Pain

Chahinez BensariMcGill University

Mistrust against the machine: the rise of the neo-Luddite cultureDavide BennatoUniversity of Catania

Post-Luddism: Overcoming a Rhetorical Impasse in Technology CriticismJennifer RauchLong Island University

Brooklyn

An Exploration of Embodied Ethics and MediaJeremy Swartz and Thomas BivinsUniversity of Oregon

Panel 3.3.4 Chair: TBD MY350

Digital ImageryHypersexuality in Fictional Visual Media: An Analysis of the Content and ConsumersLucia Pollock, Abbie Speed

and Angelina MullinsBrigham Young University

Truth and Reconciliation Media: An Ethico-political Case Study of Residential School Imagery in Apps, Social Media, and Online Archives from 2008 to 2018Tyson StewartNipissing University

(Re)Imaging Outrage: Memes as Temporal Visual IdeographsHeather StassenCazenovia College

A Practice of RealitySophie Kuijper DicksonConcordia University

Panel 3.3.5 Chair: Beatriz Polivanov MY370

Media DiscourseAffliation and disaffliation: WhatsAPP group from Barraca da Josine at the São Cristóvão FairCynthia DuartePontifcal Catholic University

of Rio de Janeiro

The Outcry Against Far Cry 5: White Nationalism, Right-Wing Christian Militancy, and Ubisoft’s Intervention into the Mass Media Discourse of Homegrown Violent Extremism in the U.S.Don Moore and Megan HutchisonUniversity of Guelph

Cultural Uses of Whatsapp in 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign: An Ethic Probe of Global Media ScenariumLuísa Chaves de Melo and Mônica ChavesPontifcal Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

The experience of PUC-Rio in social networks: a proposal for preservation of the brand, production of quality content and relation with societyLilian Saback and Luciana PereiraPontifcal Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Panel 3.3.6 Chair: Mark Hagen MY380

Neo-PoliticsCritical datifcation as an ethical and theoretical approach in the use of political dataVictor Hugo AbregoUniversidad Jesuita de

Guadalajara

Internet of Things and biopoliticsRocio CisnerosPanamerican University

Governing while textingPatrick O'NeillDownsview Lands Community

Voice Association

Transparency: A new way of design the democracy?David LealIndependent Scholar

Panel 3.3.7 Chair: Ernest Hakanen MY420

In Dialog with McLuhanMarshall McLuhan and Jacques Ellul in DialogGeri Forsberg, Western

Washington UniversityStephanie Bennett, Palm

Beach Atlantic University

Mumford vs McLuhanFelice CappaScuola Civica di Cinema Luchino Visconti

Information Theory: A Response to McLuhanMalcolm DeanUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Marshall McLuhan and Work in the Global ArtformMarc BelangerRadioLabour

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Panel 3.3.8 Chair: Michael Grabowski MY440

Philosophical InvestigationsMedia Ecology and Moral PhilosophyGerald ErionMedaille College

Realism in PhilosophyLeo ReillyBasilian Fathers of Toronto

Plato and Rozhdestvensky on creating culture: do the three steps still apply?Maria PolskiEast-West University

Ethics as the Core of Media EcologyJulianne Newton and Jared MacaryUniversity of Oregon

Panel 3.3.9 Chair: Miles Mancini MY480

How Scenario-Based Learning and Gamifcation Engage Communication & CommunityWorkshopMiles Mancini, Roberto Garcia, Eric Otto, Mary Cecile Gayoso and Sam Walch, Florida Gulf Coast University

Panel 3.3.10 Chair: Alex Kuskis MY490

Media PedagogyMedia Literacy and Peace Studies: a practical activity proposalChristiane Versuti and Jorge Salhani, Universidade

Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho

Training the Brain’s Braking System (RVLPFC) to Loosen the Grip of Social MediaAndrea LynnFlorida Gulf Coast University

Emerging Technologies, Higher Education and the Automated AcademiaAlcibiades Malapi-NelsonHumber College

Teaching as a Creative Activity: The Educational Arts as Counterenvironment in the Age of Digital MediaRobert AlbrechtNew Jersey City University

Session 3.4Saturday June 29 – 3:30 PM

Panel 3.4.1 Chair: TBD MY150

Promoting Media Policy Literacy Through Animated FilmVideo installation presenting three short animated flms addressing media policy issuesBy Noah Arjomand and Elaine Monaghan, Indiana University, Bloomington

Each video discusses the connections among the governance, economics, and health. The talk discusses successes and challenges we encountered and seek advice on how to best move the project forward in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Panel 3.4.2 Chair: Dennis D. Cali MY315

Senses, Sensoria, and Interiority in Media EcologyProbing an 'Interior Sensorium' throughout the AgesDennis D. CaliUniversity of Texas at Tyler

Nothing Inside or Inside Nothing: Thought, Time, and InteriorityCorey AntonGrand Valley State University

Silence as Solution: Addressing the Media Glut from the Inside OutStephanie BennettPalm Beach Atlantic University

The Ear and the Eye: Oral Hermeneutic and General SemanticsThomas ZlaticSt. Louis College of Pharmacy

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Panel 3.4.3 Chair: TBD MY320

Trumping the MediaFlooding the Zone: a Trump Theory of PropagandaSalvatore FallicaNew York University

Identifcations and Disidentifcations: Stormy Daniels, Trump, and YouValerie PetersonGrand Valley State University

Ethics and History: Does fake news puzzle scenes and scenarios?Janaina Barretta, Gabriel Raimundo, Tainá Patriani, Silvia Molina, Guilherme Oliveira, Gabriel Silva-Souza,

Carolina Santos and Acauã BonifácioUniversity of São Paulo

Donald Trump: Anatomy of a Human Pseudo Event and the Crisis of Modern LiberalismArthur HuntThe University of Tennessee at

Martin

Panel 3.4.4 Chair: MY330

Explorations in Media HistoryThe Ethics of Polyphemus: Media in a One-Eyed WorldMichael GrilloUniversity of Maine

Time, Space, and Modernity: Urban Fiction and Popular Magazines in 1930's ChinaShen ShuangEast China Normal University

Twitter by Telephone: The “Beep Line” and Its Place In Social Media HistoryLen O’KellyGrand Valley State University

Making the zine: Nostalgia, creativity, and aesthetic "conscience" in community-based DIY media for tabletop role-playing gamesEdgar JohnsonAugusta University

Panel 3.4.5 Chair: Cathy Adams MY350

Being DigitalMedia and ICT in Ensuring Digital Social Interactions for Socially-Excluded Transgender Community in BangladeshMahamudul HaqueBegum Rokeya University

Utterfacts as Weapons of Mass DisplacementJan Lukas ButermanUniversity of Alberta

Sadistic Documentary: Nodes of Pain and Their Ethical EntailmentsDavid RiceMiami University

“Sometimes the Map Really Is the Territory”: Digital Cartography as Mode of Worldly EngagementJohn DowdBowling Green State University

Panel 3.4.6 Chair: Alessandro E. Colombi MY360

Rethinking Digital LiteracyAn Inconvenient Retrieval: Digital Secondary Literacy and The Ethics of VirtueAdam PugenUniversity of Toronto

How to rationally manage our ignorance. Methodological proposals for the digitization of teaching and learningMario Pireddu, Università

degli Studi della TusciaStefano MoriggiUniversità degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

Robo-journalism and the ethical issues of its takeover of traditional journalismAndrey MiroshnichenkoYork University

Practice and Pedagogy: Data literacy and ethical research practice in social media analysisSandra RobinsonCarleton University

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Panel 3.4.7 Chair: Maria Polski MY370

Post-FakeFake news and its complex algorithms: how its widespread proliferation can damage digital communication on social networking sitesMagaly PradoUniversidade de São Paulo

Fake News: a conceptual proposalFernando Figueiredo StrongrenUniversidade de Brasília

The Billowing, Prodigious Flood: On News Twitter, Post-Truth, and Affective CapacitiesEric JenkinsUniversity of Cincinnati

CNN's Really Fake News & the Changing Ecosystem of InformationJoshua MeyrowitzUniversity of New Hampshire

Panel 3.4.8 Chair: TBD MY380

Remediating McLuhanMarshall McLuhan’s Middle Ages: The Hidden Ground of New MediaJen ReidUniversity of Winnipeg

A Global Village or The Wild Wild West?José Rolando IslasUniversidad Panamericana

A McLuhan-syntonic Aproach to Computer LiteracyClinton IgnatovIndependent Scholar

Marshall McLuhan as Reconfguring Art FormBarry LissUniversity of Wisconsin

Milwaukee

Panel 3.4.9 Chair: Gary Gumpert MY420

The Media Ecology of JudaismFirst Nations of the Book: Understanding JudaismLance StrateFordham University

A’Vanim the Jewish TraditionCarolin AronisColorado State University

Speaking Jewish: The Talmudy Blues of Semantic and Semitic EnvironmentsAdeena KarasickPratt Institute

Respondent:

Susan DruckerHofstra University

Panel 3.4.10 Chair: TBD MY440

VideodromeBrazilian television journalism in the current media ecosystemEugenia Barichello and

Clarissa Schwartz*Universidade Federal de Santa

Maria

Frankenbite. Ethics in the Edit Rooms of Factual Television ProgrammingManfred BeckerYork University

Animating Ourselves Back to Life: Cartooning as Critical PracticeAndrew LongcoreIndiana University of Pennsylvania

Genetically Modifed Foods on Social Media in China: Content and Audience Analysis of Genetically Modifed Foods Videos on YoukuWenxi Wu and Xiuhong Qiao

Northeast Normal University

Panel 3.4.11 Chair: Brian Cogan MY480

The Funny Thing About Ethics: the (Im)morality of HumourEverything I needed to know about Ethics, I learned from Monty PythonBrian Cogan, Molloy College

Humour and Ethics in Art and ActivismPhil Rose, McMaster University

From a Renaissance Menippean satire to the renaissance of Menippean satire (an another awful chiasmatic title)Jean-François ValléeCollège de Maisonneuve

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Panel 3.4.12 Chair: TBD MY490

Global EthicsAesthetics versus Ethics: Totalitarian Business is Our CultureAnita OgurluUniversity of Saskatchewan

Transparency and belonging in a social media placeKaren LollarMetropolitan State University

of Denver

Media ethics codes aren’t ethics: How explicative misinformation muddles the guidelines for journalistic behaviorStephenson WatersUniversity of Louisiana at

Lafayette

Social Media and democratization in Guinea: A shift from mainstream mediaMohamed Cherif BahCentre for Democratic

Development

Networking & Coffee BreakSaturday June 29 – 5:00 PM

McLuhan Salon/Book Launch ATRIUM

The Charge in the Global MembraneBy B.W. Powe, NeoPoiesis Press (2019)

Session 3.5Saturday June 29 – 5:30 PM

Panel 3.5.1 Chair: Edward Tywoniak MY150

The Future We Want

Mark SurmanMozilla Foundation

Clara TsaoNational Security x Technology

Nora BatesonInternational Bateson Institute

Awards Gala DinnerSaturday June 29 – 7:30 PM

St. Michael’s College, Brennan Hall81 St Mary Street, Toronto

MEA Business MeetingSunday June 30 – 9:30 AM

St. Michael’s College, Charbonnel Lounge81 St Mary Street, Toronto

McLuhan Walking TourSunday June 30 – 11:00 AM

St. Michael’s College / McLuhan Centre / UofT Campus

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Guidelines for PresentersCheck-List

In order to encourage interdisciplinary discussion among conference participants and audience members, presenters should note the following guidelines:

All sessions are 80-minute long. The duration of presentations is 15 minutes. Multiple discussants

should divide this allotted time among themselves. Going over the time limit only prevents further discussion and is disrespectful to the other presenters and the audience.

Presenters should not expect to read their papers in full. Instead presenters are encouraged to talk

about their work and describe it, with the aim of encouraging audience members to have a discussion with the presenter.

To ensure that everyone gets the most from the conference, the presentation schedule will be

strictly enforced by each Session Chair. Session chairs are encouraged to be strict with time. Following the last presentation, Session chairs will facilitate a discussion/ Q&A with all presenters

and the audience. Presenters should usually avoid telling the audience too much biographical information - this cuts

into the time allotted to the presentation and the content of the paper. Also, it is understood that presentations are based upon larger works. It is therefore unnecessary for presenters to inform the audience of how diffcult it is to condense ideas into 15 minutes. There are many opportunities for authors to talk about their work after the session with interested individuals.

It is often helpful for presenters to have hard copies of their papers available to distribute to interested audience members.

Presenters are asked to verify that all necessary presentation materials are in place and tested in their presentation venue, well before the session begins. Presenters are requested to fnd an opportunity in advance of the presentation to familiarize themselves with the venue and podium environment. Staff members will be available to help throughout the conference.

A PC will be available in each room, at the conference venue, for speakers’ use during their

presentations. Internet connection, speakers system, and VGA/HDMI will be available. But be reminded: technology should enhance a presentation, not be the presentation.

Finally, let’s keep building an inclusive, diverse, and equitable intellectual community*, recognizing the value of discourse and dialogue, to serve as a source of knowledgeable energy and encouragement for future research connections!

* Participants in all MEA activities, including the MEA Annual Convention, assent to and agree to abide by the MEA Statement for Inclusivity and Guidelines of Conduct.

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Human Ecology in a Connected WorldMEDIAETHICS

PRESENTED BY

IN COLLABORATION WITH

FAC U LT Y O F I N F O R M AT I O NMcLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology

School of Cities Centre for Ethics

FAC U LT Y O F A RT S & S C I E N C ECentre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCE FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Loyola University Chicago

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20th ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION

TORONTO 27-30 GIUGNO, 2019

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