Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Communication and Media Speaker Series (April 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47647 47647-10971138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

Social media has afforded a change to the structure of people's personal communities that allows for more persistent contact and pervasive awareness. In contrast to arguments that suggest new technologies are maximizing mobility to the point where people are nearly free from the constraints of time, space, and social bonds, social media are renewing many of the constraints and opportunities of an earlier, denser and more stable network of relations. As a result of the relational persistence, social ties and the contexts where they are formed are less transitory than at any time in modern history. Through the ambient, lean, asynchronous nature of social media, awareness provides for an informal watchfulness that was common in earlier communities. The result is heightened knowledge about the opinions, activities and mental state of ones' social ties. This awareness is associated with a number of beneficial outcomes, including higher awareness of social capital and social support, but it may also be associated with less desirable outcomes. This presentation focuses on a number of these outcomes, including social stress, a spiral of silence, and increased psychological distress over time.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:20:45 -0500 2018-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 North Quad Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion North Quad
Politicians and Social Media in the Global South (April 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51880 51880-12274528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

A one-day seminar workshop to examine contemporary scholarship on political social media in the Global South. The workshop will feature a mix of talks and small workgroup sessions to explore these topics, with specific attention to politicians and political collectives.

In the last decade, politicians in various parts of the world have invested in social media campaigns, including in settings where a relatively small proportion of the voting public is actually online. Leaders may use social media for a range of reasons including to actively court constituents, to present a narrative on their political program to the international community, or to use the affordances of social media to frame the agenda on a specific issue.

Social media can also present a means for politicians to bypass the free professional media corps to directly speak to the electorate, and exercise greater control over the story crafted about them. After an early phase of enthusiasm on the scope of social media to bring decentralized power to the people, we increasingly have a balanced view of the potential and risks of online behavior for democratic societies.

Today, we see a social media environment in which a vast majority of major national politicians in countries throughout the world build social media presences for a diverse mix of these reasons. What do these developments mean for the future of political campaigning? What tactics have worked? How is the online strategy impacted by ideology, national economic priorities, or political structure?

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:21:07 -0400 2018-04-14T09:00:00-04:00 2018-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Workshop / Seminar Billboard
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Facebook, Politics, and Participation in the Philippines (September 14, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53507 53507-13392479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Filipinos spend more time on social media than anyone else in the world, yet little is understood about how social media impacts politics in the Philippines. The speakers have examined the broad relationship between Facebook usage and political participation in an increasingly digitally networked Philippines society. New scholarship in political communication espouses a strong positive relationship between social media and the rise of populist politicians, but this hypothesis may not hold true in the case of Rodrigo Duterte's electoral victory. Citing survey findings and social network analysis following the 2016 presidential election, the speakers will demonstrate that political engagement via Facebook played a key role in this unprecedented election, but not in ways previous research has posited. The speakers will use their findings to explain the implications for future political developments in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia.

Aim Sinpeng is a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is a co-founder of the Sydney Cyber Security Network and a Thailand Coordinator for the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. She has published widely on Thai politics and has been awarded multiple research grants to study social media and political participation in Southeast Asia. She is completing a manuscript on anti-democratic politics in democratizing states.

Aries A. Arugay is an associate professor of political science and co-convenor of the Strategic Studies Program of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative politics, international relations, research methodology, and political thought. He currently holds an ASEAN@50 Fellowship from New Zealand’s Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence and the One UP Professorial Chair in Comparative Democratization.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to cseas@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:33:48 -0400 2018-09-14T11:30:00-04:00 2018-09-14T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Sinpeng Arugay
UMSI Homecoming Lecture: A conversation with Steve Horowitz of Snapchat (October 4, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55587 55587-13759175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: School of Information

Snapchat's Steve Horowitz will present the 2018 School of Information Homecoming Lecture. In his talk, he will discuss how the evolution of the camera is changing the way we communicate, express ourselves, play and create. He will share some of Snapchat's latest innovations in augmented reality, computer vision and more.

Steve Horowitz is currently Vice President of Technology for Snap, Inc. in Venice, California. He brings vast technology expertise including the development of world-class products at Google, Microsoft and Apple. Steve's career has spanned decades and he has led teams responsible for industry-shaping mobile products, computer operating systems, television and wearable technology. Steve is a Michigan alum and is proud to have two daughters who are both Wolverines.

This event is open to the public: all are welcome to attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:11:22 -0400 2018-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-04T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) School of Information Lecture / Discussion Steve Horowitz