Living Digitally: Today and Tomorrow

Join faculty members Philip Boyle and Christine McWebb from the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business for a discussion on what it means to be living in an age of digital innovations – advances that both enhance and disrupt established ways of doing business, scientific enterprise, and everyday life.  We will explore key topics such as privacy, the generational divide, and the benefits and challenges of using online platforms to communicate.

Christine McWebb is the Director and a professor at the Stratford School, and was formerly with the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She has published extensively in the area of Digital Humanities, and her teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses in Digital Humanities and Digital Experience Innovation.

 

Philip Boyle is a professor sociology researching and teaching in the areas of security, urban governance, and public safety, among others, and is a contributor to the upcoming publication Resilience: International Policies, Practices & Discourses, with a chapter entitled “Building a Safe & Resilient Canada: Resilience & the Mechanopolitics of Infrastructure”, exploring the question of how we plan for unknown and unknowable risks.