GI Faculty Member Shana Macdonald Interviewed by CTV about Rogers Nationwide Outage

Dr. Shana Macdonald (Communication Arts) was interviewed on July 11^th about the massive Canada-wide Rogers outage that saw many Canadians without access to the internet, phone service, or even ATMs.

Macdonald argues that the outage reveals a lot about our digital lives explaining that it was more of a shock for “digitally-born generations” whose “identity and social life” was “formed on the internet.”

Others interviewed discussed the complications of getting from city to city without digital maps or filling their time without social media.

You can read the full article on the CTV website.