The event highlights the research of five 91亚色 professors, a University Librarian and a former graduate student on topics ranging from sound, affect and digital communities, copyright in the digital domain, augmented reality storytelling, social media and oral culture at Ugandan heritage sites, digital technology design and librarian and information systems.

鈥淭his research celebration provides an opportunity for members of the 91亚色 community to learn more about the breadth of Digital Cultures research at the University,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, vice-president research & innovation.聽 鈥淭hroughout the upcoming year, we will continue to highlight research in the five areas of opportunity for the strategic development of research, as described in the new Strategic Research Plan, Building on Strength.鈥�

Students, faculty and staff are invited to the celebration, from 2 to 4pm in the CIBC Lobby, Accolade East Building.聽 The event will feature mini-research byte presentations followed by Q&As from the audience.

Featured presenters are Faculty of Fine Arts Professor Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture; Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Carys Craig; Faculty of Education Professor Mary Leigh Morbey, associate director of the Institute for Research on Learning Technologies, with Mary Pat O鈥橫eara;聽 Stacy Allison-Cassin, associate librarian, 91亚色 Libraries; Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Professor David Cecchetto; and Lassonde School of Engineering Professor Melanie Baljko.

Caitlin Fisher

Fisher will speak about 鈥淎ugmented Reality Storytelling: Emerging Tools and Practices.鈥� Her talk will explore expressive tools for augmented reality content creation, both custom tools developed in 91亚色's AR Lab and a new generation of easy-to-use commercial tools, workflow for the production of immersive and handheld augmented reality stories, and showcase some of the augmented reality storytelling projects being created by Dr. Fisher and her students.

Carys Craig

Craig will present 鈥淐opyright, Communication and Culture in the Digital Domain.鈥� Copyright law appears to stand at a dangerous crossroads, forced to choose between maximizing the potential of the digital revolution and reinforcing the norms of the analog world. This is a false dilemma. Digital culture should not be regarded as threat to the copyright system or the public purposes it serves; rather, the copyright system should be viewed as a threat to our developing digital culture.

Mary Leigh Morbey, with Mary Pat O鈥橫eara

Morbey will present 鈥淪ocial Media Engages Oral Culture at Ugandan Heritage Sites,鈥� with Mary Pat O鈥橫eara, the videographer on the Uganda National Museum Social Media project. Uganda in East Africa possesses 100 heritage sites illustrating the rich culture of Uganda: little known by Ugandans and the world. Collaboration between the Uganda National Museum and a 91亚色 Institute for Research on Learning Technologies research team is capturing the heritage sites through video and photograph, and stories of older people living in the shadow of the sites through videoed interviews in English and Luganda. The collected data situated in a Social Media structure centered in the museum website, preserves potential lost heritage.

Stacy Allison-Cassin

Allison-Cassin will explore 鈥淒isconnecting connections: librarianship and information systems.鈥� Her talk will highlight recently published and current research exploring the frictions present in the philosophical underpinnings of traditional librarianship in relation to technology, with a particular aim to expose how assumptions about information systems and the bodies of librarians impact our ability to forge alternate pathways in the digital environment.

David Cecchetto

Cecchetto will discuss, 鈥淪ound, Affect and Digital Communities.鈥澛� His research takes hold at the crossing of aurality, digitality and critical posthumanism. Cecchetto鈥檚 talk begins by describing the claims of critical posthumanism, and proceeds to briefly discuss a practice-inclusive research project that works from this position to demonstrate鈥攑ractically and theoretically鈥攖he innovative potential of bringing aurality to bear on digital technologies.

Melanie Baljko

Baljko will present, 鈥淒igital Technology Design in the GaMaY Lab.鈥澛� Her presentation will provide an overview of several research projects underway in the in the Lassonde School of Engineering.聽 The presentation will describe and discuss some of the threads that are common to these works, which include: critical reflection on the hidden assumptions and values underlying the design of digital technologies; accessibility and barriers to digital technologies; obstacles in the small-scale production and development of digital technology; and harnessing modes of knowledge mobilization.

Organizers ask that interested participants register their by Dec. 5.

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