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Events held during pandemic get creative
Amid COVID-19, a new business category has arisen – virtual events. When the pandemic hit, organizations that typically hold annual – or more frequent – networking, educational or trade show events found themselves cancelling them one after the other...

Embracing Econferences: a step toward limiting the negative effects of conference culture
One of the largest gatherings of scholars in the country will be moving online this year. Thousands of Congress 2021 attendees will not be flying or driving across Canada to the University of Alberta. Instead, they’ll be gathering virtually. Our...

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike – Congress 2021
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a recent graduate of the doctoral program in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and a celebrated author of fiction and poetry. His research focuses on gender roles in Nigerian...

The value of connection: work-from-home reflections on World Telecommunication and Internet Society day
Here in Montreal, the pandemic coincided with an unusually cold spring, so my family has been spending our days indoors, connected to the outside world through the Internet. As someone who studies how we measure the Internet, I have been thinking...

Networked bodies, AI, and our future digital lives

Public policy and knowledge dissemination in the digital age - Vincent Larivière

The social implications of artificial intelligence

The social implications of emerging technologies: Are the most important questions the least studied?

Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture
When someone asks you where the idea for a research project came from, there’s a right and a wrong answer. The right one is about debates in the field and gaps in the literature, and it presupposes what you eventually discovered. I find the wrong one...