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Technology & Science
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Me, My Phone and I
06 Dec 2012 by Min Young Hwang / No Comments
Hey you, yeah you. Be honest, don’t you think that you’re way too attached to your cellphone these days? Are you one of those people who can’t live a single day without your phone?
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Your Digital Tattoo
10 Mar 2012 by Richelle Zheng / No Comments
Have you ever tried to look yourself up on Google? If you haven’t appeared in a viral video or you haven’t cured cancer, chances are, your named won’t pop up too many times on the search engine. However, this doesn’t mean that your information is not on the internet.
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An Objective Look at Online Education
10 Nov 2011 by Jamie Cessford / 1 Comment
The concept of Online Education is undeniably attractive.
Schooling from home, in theory, allows for people to complete courses on their own time, from accredited universities, while balancing other obligations that prevent commutes and in-person lectures from being practical. But is it time for Online Education to transcend this niche and become integrated as a vital staple in the paradigm shift that the education system is currently?Â
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Me in Media: Oh so close
19 Sep 2011 by Justin Choi / No Comments
On September 14, I attended Me in Media, a discussion of minority representation in today’s media. It was organized by Schema Magazine and United Nations Association in Canada, and featured such panelists as Riaz Meghji from Breakfast Television, Sid Tan, Dr. Stuart Poyntz, and Shima Ghailan.
It was an interesting talk, to be sure. The panelists, each given seven minutes to talk about a topic of their choice, brought to the audience’s attention subjects as diverse as social media, the migration of the disprivileged from inner-city to fringes of the city, and racialization of media. The panelists hailed from a wide spectrum of our society; respectively a TV personality, an academic, a journalist and media producer, and a student.
However, I felt that the event was, well, simply not enough. In the 1 hour 45 minutes of time allotted to the event, the first thirty minutes were spent on presenting the sponsors. Then the panelists were each given about seven minutes to speak, and audience discussion followed after. This, I felt, only allowed a very superficial discussion of the topic at hand, both in terms of panelist discussion and audience questions. Given the scope of this topic, ethnicity and media, the seven minute speeches barely scratched the surface of the main issues at hand, and the speeches ended up being either too narrow in focus or conversely too shallow to allow for meaningful content. The same could be said of audience participation; in the end, only about five or six were allowed to ask questions or comment. For an event purported to be a public discussion, that number is rather a shameful one.
Overall, Me in Media was an interesting discussion, but I feel its potential was wasted; the panelists were knowledgeable, and the audience was no doubt full of questions that had to go unanswered. If it were a three, or even a four-hour event, perhaps the discussions could have been more meaningful, and I could have left a little more satisfied.
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