Wed, Apr 15, 2015, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Porter College, Room 245
Title: "Social Media Mechanisms"
Thomas Poell is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. His research is focused on social media and public communication around the globe. Together with professor José van Dijck, he leads the KNAW-‘Over Grenzen’ research program on ‘Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space’ (June 2013 until August 2015). The program investigates how public space is reconfigured in the new emerging ecosystem of social media and conventional mass media. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/t.poell/
Free and Open to the Public
For more information: visualmedia@ucsc.edu
Presented by: Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art and Visual Culture