Digital Dependencies: How we upload and offload ourselves

Monday, November 21, 2016 7:00 am - 7:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

A panel discussion by three UWaterloo professors is to be held at the Kitchener Public Library on Nov. 21 at 7pm:

Aimée Morrison (English) 

Loneliness and social media: What does it mean, and not mean, to have ‘Friends’ online? 

Jennifer Whitson (Sociology) 

How do surveillance devices like the Fitbit turn our bodies into playgrounds, factories, and doctors’ offices? 

Evan Risko (Psychology) 

New technologies and cognitive offloading: Can it change our mind?