If you weren’t able to attend the lecture last Friday you can now listen to Dr. Lisa Lynch’s lecture online.
Public Lecture: The Ghosts of Info-Wars Past
Jonathon W. Penney
Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Doctoral candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Tuesday, November 6 at 1:30 pm
Rowe Management Building Room 3089
The Ghosts of Info-Wars Past: Lessons for the Law and Politics of Internet Censorship Resistance Today
With Internet censorship on the rise around the world, both organizations and individuals have developed and distributed a variety of tools to assist Internet users to circumvent such censorship. This talk will examine more closely the international law and politics of such censorship resistance activities through three case studies involving past global communications censorship and information conflicts and the world community’s response — telegram cable cutting and censorship, high frequency radio jamming, and direct broadcast satellite blocking. In addition to illustrating some of the legal, political, and security concerns that have animated global communications censorship, the lecture will extrapolate lessons and insights for Internet censorship (and its resistance) today, such as the legality of censorship circumvention, the nature of censorship justifications, and the effectiveness of Internet censorship monitoring and circumvention.
For more information please contact Bertrum MacDonald (494-2472 or bertrum.macdonald@dal.ca).
Using LinkedIn as a tool for your Job Search
Did you know that over 80% of employers are looking you up online before making a hiring decision? LinkedIn is an absolute must-have tool when performing a job search in today’s job market and will help you make a positive online impression. Attend this workshop to learn:
- How to create a professional online presence with your LinkedIn profile
- To use the search feature to explore career options, job types and industries
- Where to find information on people and organizations to write customized job applications
- How to find job opportunities and prepare for interviews
Details:
- Monday, October 29
- 11:35 – 12:55, Room 3089
- RSVP via myCareer
- It is strongly recommended that you create a profile before attending the workshop (www.linkedin.com)
Interdisciplinary PhD Student Wins Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
The School of Information Management is pleased to announce that the American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has awarded the Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship to Interdisciplinary PhD candidate, and SIM alumna, Lori McCay-Peet. This annual scholarship is awarded based on originality and creativity and the potential significance of the research to the field of information science.
Lori will present her research proposal, “At the intersection: Investigating the qualities of the serendipitous digital environment and the serendipity-prone person,” at the ASIS&T 2012 annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland at the end of October.
Lori’s research explores the complex interactions between individuals and the digital environments in which they are immersed, such as websites, databases, and a variety of applications. Her research will contribute to knowledge of information behaviour, provide a source for design elements that may augment the capability of information systems to facilitate serendipity, and offer a tool for developers to assess the serendipitous nature of information systems.
Lori’s co-supervisor, Dr. Elaine Toms notes that she “has developed a solid research idea, a conceptual model to support it, and a preliminary pathway to follow. She has selected a risky topic — that of serendipity, a word that is bandied about on a daily basis, but which is also a phenomenon that has intellectual and economic consequences. She has a natural ability to identify a problem, voraciously consume the background research, and propose a solution or direction. To every project, she has brought a logical and analytical approach with novel and innovative ideas.”
Lori graduated from Dalhousie’s School of Information Management with the MLIS degree in 2008. Now a student in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program (Information Management and Computer Science), she is co-supervised by Dr. Elaine Toms (University of Sheffield) and Dr. Bertrum MacDonald (Dalhousie University). Lori holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Fellowship and her research is supported by grants to Dr. Toms from the Graphics, Animation and New Media Network of Centres of Excellence (GRAND NCE), the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Foundation of Innovation.
Samantha Dutka wins the Anne M. Galler Award
Congratulations to SIM alumna Samantha Dutka, who has been awarded the 2012 Anne M. Galler Award for dedication and support to special libraries or the Special Libraries Association during or outside her studies in the MLIS/MREM program.
The Anne M. Galler Award and $150.00 prize is given yearly to a student from each of the three graduate Library Schools within the Eastern Canada Chapter region, in recognition of their high achievements in a special library related course or activity.
Previously known as the Book Prize, this award was renamed posthumously in 2000 in honour of Mrs Anne Galler who was a long-standing member and past-president of the Chapter. She began her career in 1958 as head of the Canadian Marconi corporate library and from there moved on to many other corporate and school libraries before arriving at Concordia University where she worked her way to becoming Director of the Library Studies program and then becoming, prior to her death in 1999, the Acting Chair of the Education Department.