Education, Culture and the Knowledge Economy Speaker
Darin Barney
Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship
Associate Professor, Dept. of Art History & Communication Studies
McGill University
Innovation Nation:
Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Technology
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Place: Solarium FA2, Falconer Hall, 84 Queen’s Park
This paper examines the recent history of public pedagogy surrounding technological innovation in Canada. Surveying a range of discursive sites associated with the “innovation agenda”, it examines the manner in which narratives of technological nationalism have been mobilized to support the depoliticization of technological innovation and its associated controversies. The paper closes by exploring the implications of this public pedagogy for democratic legitimacy and citizenship in technological contexts.
Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship and Associate Professor of Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Communication Technology: The Canadian Democratic Audit (UBC Press: 2005); The Network Society (Polity Press: 2004); and Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (UBC/Chicago/UNSW 2000). He is also co-editor with Andrew Feenberg of Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice (Rowman and Littlefield: 2004). In 2007, he presented the Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto, published under the title One Nation Under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic.
Please RSVP to: centre.ilp@utoronto.ca or 416-978-3724
www.innovationlaw.org
A light lunch will be provided
Sponsored by the Microsoft Law and Information Society Project
