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Public Research

The Infoscape Lab has appeared in all major media outlets to explain the impact of social media on Canadian politics

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Centre for the Study of Social Media

The Infoscape Research Lab hosts research projects that focus on the cultural impact of digital code.

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Innovative Research Methods

The lab engages in software and other new media tool development, code mapping, interface design, and new media content analysis.

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International Collaboration

The Infoscape Lab has ongoing conversations and collaborations with researchers and research groups in Canada and around the world.

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TDCL speaker at Infoscape Lab on March 5

Free web content idealists believe that information wants to be free. My strategy in this presentation is to ask: does electricity want to be free? If…

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Front Page Stories

Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois to Present at the Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process Conference

25 Mar 2010 - 8:11pm
26 Mar 2010 - 2:11pm
Etc/GMT-5
Location: 
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

Greg Elmer will be giving a keynote entitled "Thinking out of the Box: Towards a Progressive Politics of Live Research", and Ganaele Langlois will be presenting on "Tracking Networks: Notes on a Semio-Technical Approach".


TORONTO DIGITAL CITY LABS SPEAKER SERIES: Gary Genosko, Lakehead University

5 Mar 2010 - 3:00pm
5 Mar 2010 - 5:00pm
Etc/GMT-5
Location: 
Infoscape Research Lab Ryerson University Room RCC 202

Hacking the Grid: Does Electricity Want to Be Free?

Gary Genosko, Lakehead University

Abstract

Free web content idealists believe that information wants to be free. My strategy in this presentation is to ask: does electricity want to be free? If so, on whose terms, and by what means? I want to look for preliminary answers to my questions in countercultural struggles against the electrical companies, namely, in Yippie technoculture, practices of rogue electricians in the cannabis culture of grow-ops, eco-warriors cutting down hydro towers, and alt-energy, off-the-grid, drop outs. In order to imagine what an electrical commons might look like, I regain some hard lessons from the history of black outs, especially large-scale events in the northeast such as New York City (1965) and Toronto (2003).


Prorogation Online: Partisans Carve up Canadian Social Media

Key findings from our study of social media and the Canadian political blogosphere since Harper’s prorogation (December 30-January 12):