Dr. Helen Hambly will present a paper entitled "Participatory and Citizen Approaches to Video-Mediated Communication for Social and Environmental Change in Rural and Northern Canada" to the practitioner's forum "Our Media" which leads the annual meeting of the International Association of Media and Communication Research held in Dublin, Ireland, June 23-29, 2013.
https://sites.google.com/site/ourmediaweb/noticias/omdublin2013
SEDRD Post-Doc, Dr. Ataharul Chowdhury presented his work at the 2013 SSHRC Congress. Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, are widely used for community engagement, but in a presentation to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada during the SSHRC Congress on June 3, 2013, in Victoria, BC, results from his research suggest that social media for agri-food innovation in Ontario can be vastly improved.
Improving high-speed Internet access fo rural residents of southwestern Ontario is the goal of a new feasibility study involving University of Guelph researchers in the Capacity Development and Extension program at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development.
See article at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2013/04/post_242.html