Digital and social media scholar speaks at UO on May 16

The 2024 New Media and Culture Certificate Annual Lecture will be given by Aimée Morrison, Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 3 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. 

Morrison specializes in digital media and teaches courses in visual culture, critical social media, academic writing, and selfies as autobiography. Her research examines social media practices by everyday users as forms of life writing often turned to social justice, identity, or community goals.  

At the University of Waterloo, she supervises graduate students in New Media Studies, Critical Social Media, Photography Studies, the History and Theory of Media, and Critical Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability Studies.

Her current project, a book on selfies, examines how people decide how to represent themselves online, what motivates these decisions, and what effects they have. In addition, she is completing a book on personal computers in the 1980s. 

During her visit, Morrison will also be available to talk with NMCC students about new media studies, digital humanities, podcasting, critical making, accessibility, public scholarship, digital pedagogy, and more.

Morrison’s lecture is cosponsored by the OHC’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. For more information go to blogs.uoregon.edu/newmediaculture