Understanding Media Now: Navigating Surveillance, Social Media and Marketing

The Association for Media Literacy (Ontario) will hold a one-day conference at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto on Saturday, October 18, 2014, 8:00 – 5:00.

Because media technologies and environments are evolving rapidly, The AML is presenting a one-day conference to help parents, teachers and media users understand and maximize their uses of current media technologies and environments.

One of 4 panels will explain how big data changes the media relationships of the individual, citizenry, and society.

Canada’s foremost gaming researchers will help us understand the relationship between children’s gaming and real-world behaviours.

Included speakers: Annie Kidder, People for Education and Ron Deibert, author of Black Code and Director of The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

The conference will address several of the following questions:

What strategies might help us negotiate and maximize our media experiences?

What might be the implications of the always-on/always-present wireless environments?

Why/how does privacy matter?

How are governments, marketers, human resources and admissions officers accessing and using our online data?

What and how does data mean?

How do I talk to my children about online privacy?

How might smart phones/tablets support student learning?

How is the online environment impacting education?

How can I lobby my school board and Ministry of Education to embed knowledge and skills about Internet privacy and navigation into the curriculum?

How might people influence policy and legislation?

How might people raise others’ awareness of the importance of media literate responses to media uses and implications?