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Dr. Darin Barney

​Dr. Darin Barney


McGill's Darin Barney to deliver Friday evening's Keynote Address


Barney is a Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship, Associate Professor in the department of Art, History and Communication Studies, McGill University. He has a B.A., M.A. (Simon Fraser) and a Ph.D. (Toronto)

A dynamic speaker, Barney studies the relationships  between communication, technology and society.  

His current projects include an investigation of the relationship between politics and communication technology. He’s also looking into how unconventional media impact the politics of pipelines in North America as well as grain handling on the prairies.

 “Darin Barney has the gift of being able to present complex ideas and ask profound questions in a compelling and approachable way,” wrote Margaret Hancock, Hart House Warden, before Barney delivered the Hart House lecture in 2007.

Barney also comes up with some great names for his scholarly articles including Eat your vegetables: courage and the possibility of politics and Miserable priests and ordinary cowards; on being a professor.

For more information, please visit Dr. Barney's website​


 

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