TIME: 11:30 - 12:30pm

DATE:  Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018

VENUE:  Halpern Centre, Rm 114 (SFU Burnaby Campus) 

TITLE: Social media - where do we go from here?

ABSTRACT: Social media is not new, but our current social, cultural, legal, and democratic institutions are struggling with some of its more extreme and harmful aspects. In this talk I will look at where we are, how we got here, and what we might do personally, professionally, and socially to mitigate some of the harms that we see all around us.

SPEAKER:  Dr. Richard Smith (BA, MA, PhD)

BIO: Dr. Richard Smith (BA, MA, PhD) is the Director for the Masters of Digital Media program at The Centre for Digital Media and has been a professor at the School of Communication at SFU for over fifteen years. He has also served as Director of SFU’s Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST). His active engagement with local, national and international media on issues related to his research into the contemporary world of technology, social media and public surveillance has also made him a recognized public commentator.

With academic training in communication and law, Dr. Smith has degrees from Carleton University (BA) and Simon Fraser University (MA and PhD). His diverse projects and creative works have explored such subjects as privacy issues in the use of mobile technology, electronic scholarly publishing, and the development of technologies for mobile media-rich, urban shared experiences