communications / en Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office /node/308652 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>laurie.bulchak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-07-27T14:36:48-04:00" title="Saturday, July 27, 2024 - 14:36" class="datetime">Sat, 07/27/2024 - 14:36</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-url field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">URL</div> <div class="field__item">https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/copyright/scholarly-communications-and-copyright-office</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-above clearfix"> <h3 class="field__label">Tags</h3> <ul class="links field__items"> <li><a href="/news/tags/libraries" hreflang="en">Libraries</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/communications" hreflang="en">communications</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Campus</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6953" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:36:48 +0000 laurie.bulchak 308652 at Communications, Central Libraries /node/308635 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Communications, Central Libraries</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>laurie.bulchak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-07-27T13:49:59-04:00" title="Saturday, July 27, 2024 - 13:49" class="datetime">Sat, 07/27/2024 - 13:49</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-url field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">URL</div> <div class="field__item">https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/library-info/communications</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-above clearfix"> <h3 class="field__label">Tags</h3> <ul class="links field__items"> <li><a href="/news/tags/communications" hreflang="en">communications</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/libraries" hreflang="en">Libraries</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Campus</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6963" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> </div> Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:49:59 +0000 laurie.bulchak 308635 at Field Day brings together U of T’s communicators for a day of inspiration and learning /news/field-day-brings-together-u-t%E2%80%99s-communicators-day-inspiration-and-learning <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Field Day brings together U of T’s communicators for a day of inspiration and learning</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Romi Levine</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-02-22T10:18:37-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 10:18" class="datetime">Wed, 02/22/2017 - 10:18</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Rotman School of Management's John Oesch speaks to Field Day attendees about the power of persuasion (photo by Linda Quattrin)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/communications" hreflang="en">communications</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/university-toronto-scarborough" hreflang="en">University of Toronto Scarborough</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/university-toronto-mississauga" hreflang="en">University of Toronto Mississauga</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>University of Toronto’s creative thinkers, writers and storytellers came together on Valentine’s Day for a day of learning and networking at this year’s Field Day conference.</p> <p>Communications staff from across the university’s campuses, faculties and departments packed into Desautels Hall at Rotman School of Management to gain inspiration from&nbsp;keynote speakers and to celebrate the accomplishments of their colleagues during case-study presentations.</p> <p>“One of the challenges at a university as large and decentralized as οis finding effective ways to learn from each other. We were thrilled with how engaged the audience was in learning not only from keynote speakers but also through a sampling of the strong communications work going on across three campuses. There is great professional talent here at U of T,” say&nbsp;conference co-chairs <strong>Linda Quattrin</strong>, executive director of communications at the Faculty of Medicine, and <strong>Lucianna Ciccocioppo</strong>, director of external relations&nbsp;at the Faculty of Law.</p> <p><img alt="Field Day Sign" class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3522 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/field%20day%20sign.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 500px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <em>A colourful welcome for&nbsp;Field Day attendees&nbsp;(photo by&nbsp;Linda Quattrin)</em></p> <p>Keynote speaker Mitch Sinclair, design director at design firm IDEO, taught attendees to think like a designer from different perspectives – an artist, an anthropologist and a psychologist.</p> <p><strong>John Oesch</strong>, associate professor, teaching stream at Rotman shared his tips on how to be more persuasive. Shree Paradkar, columnist and digital editor at the <em>Toronto Star</em> unpacked the relationship between inclusion and ethics, and Mary Lynn Young, an associate professor at UBC Graduate School of Journalism, spoke about the launch of the academic journalism platform <em>The Conversation</em>’s Canadian site.</p> <p>“I thought all of the presentations were illuminating, but I especially appreciated those made by communicators across the university,” says <strong>Don Campbell</strong>, media relations officer at University of Toronto Scarborough. “It was helpful to see how these talented individuals met specific challenges with creative ideas. Many of the lessons learned will come in handy for our own future projects.”</p> <p>Campbell presented a case study on how multimedia content helped a research story about stingrays chewing like goats go viral.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3525 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="563" src="/sites/default/files/field-day2.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"><br> <em>Participants at the Field Day conference (photo by Erin Lemon)</em></p> <p>The engineering communications team told attendees about how their out-of-the-box thinking when creating an offer of admission package led to higher acceptance rates, especially among women and lower project costs. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Shilpa Gantotti</strong>, communications strategist at the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering says sharing these experiences with colleagues across the university is a valuable tool.</p> <p>“We all face similar challenges in our positions as communicators, whether it’s doing more with less or finding smarter ways to work. Field Day was a fantastic way to leverage the learnings of others while reconnecting with colleagues,” she says.</p> <p>Communicators also took the stage to talk about U of T’s story hub “οWorld,” the Faculty of Medicine’s beautifully designed alumni magazine, οMississauga’s creative holiday video and the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s quirky illustrated student welcome guide. <strong>Erin Lemon</strong>, executive director, News &amp; Media also introduced the οcentral communications team over a lunchtime chat.</p> <p>“Field Day really demonstrated the strength of the communications community at U of T,”&nbsp;says Lemon.&nbsp;“I think everyone came away with new ideas and new relationships –&nbsp;there was a real buzz in the room, a sense of common purpose."</p> <p>While the action was taking place on campus, staff shared their insights and ideas on social media. Here’s how they joined the conversation:</p> <p><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="no" height="750" src="//storify.com/UofT/u-of-t/embed?header=false&amp;border=false" width="100%"></iframe><script src="//storify.com/UofT/u-of-t.js?header=false&amp;border=false"></script></p><noscript>[<a href="https://storify.com/UofT/u-of-t" target="_blank">View the story "Field Day brings together U of T’s communicators for a day of inspiration and learning " on Storify</a>]</noscript> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:18:37 +0000 Romi Levine 105134 at οbreathes new life into Marshall McLuhan’s Toronto School /news/u-t-breathes-new-life-marshall-mcluhans-toronto-school <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">οbreathes new life into Marshall McLuhan’s Toronto School </span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/Paolo%202.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=hWdcF6QU 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/Paolo%202.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Y4814q7j 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/Paolo%202.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=ihejIBiH 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/Paolo%202.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=hWdcF6QU" alt="photo of Paolo Granata"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Romi Levine</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-10-13T09:50:47-04:00" title="Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 09:50" class="datetime">Thu, 10/13/2016 - 09:50</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Paolo Granata, McLuhan Centenary Fellow and Toronto School conference chair (photo by Romi Levine) </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/romi-levine" hreflang="en">Romi Levine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Romi Levine</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/marshall-mcluhan" hreflang="en">Marshall McLuhan</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-information" hreflang="en">Faculty of Information</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/president-meric-gertler" hreflang="en">President Meric Gertler</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/city-building" hreflang="en">city-building</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/communications" hreflang="en">communications</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/digital-media" hreflang="en">Digital Media</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Conference brings influential media thinkers back into the spotlight</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Toronto has its fair share of cultural icons. Today, it’s Drake –&nbsp;our chart-topping, Raptors-loving rap superstar whose nickname for Toronto,&nbsp;“the 6ix,” has become a part of our daily lexicon.&nbsp;</p> <p>In the 1960s, it was a group of forward-thinking intellectuals led by <strong>Marshall McLuhan</strong>, one of University of Toronto's most famous professors. He&nbsp;became a celebrity as his ideas on mass media, culture and technology attracted&nbsp;fans like&nbsp;John Lennon, Woody Allen and Pierre Trudeau.&nbsp;</p> <div>A heritage plaque dedicated to McLuhan was unveiled Wednesday at the coach house where he&nbsp;taught&nbsp;and hosted discussions for much of his career. The building is&nbsp;now called&nbsp;the&nbsp;McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Starting today, the McLuhan Centre, which is part of&nbsp;the Faculty of Information, will be&nbsp;launching a series of events that explore&nbsp;the value and importance of McLuhan and the famed group of intellectuals who were called the Toronto School of Communication. The McLuhan Centre hopes&nbsp;to spark a conversation that will inspire a new generation of thinkers&nbsp;with a three-day conference called <a href="http://thetorontoschool.ca/">Toronto School: Then, Now, Next.</a> &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__2225 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="500" src="/sites/default/files/Toronto%20School%20-%20plaque.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"></div> <div><br> "McLuhan famously broke and transcended boundaries&nbsp;–&nbsp;between disciplines,&nbsp;between academia and popular culture,&nbsp;between the local and the global," said οPresident <strong>Meric Gertler</strong> at the unveiling event.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>"But he was rooted here, among colleagues from a range of disciplines, in what would become known as the Toronto School of Communication – a brilliant talent-cluster that helped accentuate U of T’s position as a world-leading centre for creativity and leadership in the humanities," he said.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Also in attendance was McLuhan’s son, Michael, who said that what keeps his father “relevant and marvellous today” are the people who continue to debate and discuss McLuhan’s ideas.</div> <div><br> “[The conference] just speaks to the far reach that he has all over the world, not just here in the city of Toronto,” he said.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__2226 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="500" src="/sites/default/files/Toronto%20School%20Gertler.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>McLuhan along with&nbsp;<strong>Harold Innis</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Eric Havelock</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Northrop Frye</strong>&nbsp;and musician&nbsp;<strong>Glenn Gould</strong>&nbsp;formed the Toronto School of Communication, which&nbsp;forever changed how we view our relationship with media and technology.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The three-day conference, which starts today, features guests and speakers from 21 different countries.</div> <div><br> "We are really building a community around the label of the Toronto School,” says <strong>Paolo Granata</strong>, McLuhan Centenary fellow and conference chair.&nbsp;</div> <div><br> McLuhan’s insights have never been more relevant than they are today, says οalumna and editor of <em>The Toronto School of Communication Theory</em>, <strong>Rita Watson</strong>.&nbsp;</div> <div><br> His ideas eerily foreshadow our Internet-obsessed culture and the rise of social networks.</div> <div><br> “He predicted a crisis in the modern era as literate ‘mentalities’ that had evolved in literate cultures tried to integrate the effects of electronic media,” says Watson, who will be speaking at the conference.&nbsp;</div> <div><br> McLuhan knew electronic media would change our lives, says Granata.&nbsp;<br> <br> “This kind of network is where the ideas come from. It’s where innovation comes from,” he says.&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;</div> <div> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__2216 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/McLuhan-embed.jpg" style="width: 399px; height: 405px; margin-left: 176px; margin-right: 176px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<em> &nbsp; (Marshall McLuhan at οin 1973, οarchives)</em></p> <p>The Toronto School conference is also an opportunity to give a voice to a more diverse group of media theorists.</p> <p>“A lot of young women are involved in this conference as student volunteers or as panellists,” says <strong>Emma Findlay-White</strong>, a fourth-year student at Victoria College in book and media studies and the conference’s volunteer coordinator.&nbsp;“There’s a lot of different ways women are getting their perspective and views out there.&nbsp;It’s important that we’re changing the role women play in media.”&nbsp;</p> <p>And change is good for the Toronto School.&nbsp;</p> <p>“We are at the McLuhan Centre not to say what McLuhan said," Granata says. "We are here to do what McLuhan did: foster conversation, participation, foster the awareness about how we can look at the contemporary world.”</p> <h3><a href="/news/coach-house-institute-renamed-marshall-mcluhan">Read more about the McLuhan Centre</a></h3> <hr> <p>In addition to the conference, here are a number of free, public Toronto School events this week:</p> <p><strong>Oct. 13&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>McLuhan on Campus: Local Inspirations, Global Visions at John M. Kelly Library (runs through&nbsp;Dec. 20) – <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mcluhan-on-campus-local-inspirations-global-visions-tickets-27599779684">more info here</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Oct. 15</strong></p> <p>Glenn Gould and the Toronto School: Words, Music, Images at Alliance Francaise Toronto – <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/glenn-gould-and-the-toronto-school-words-music-images-tickets-26052987186">more info here</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>Margins and Marginalia: The Formation of the Ideas of Frye, Innis and McLuhan at Fisher Rare Book Library – <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/margins-and-marginalia-the-formation-of-the-ideas-of-frye-innis-and-mcluhan-tickets-28180971043">more info here</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>Edmund Carpenter: Dialogues, Diversions &amp; Digressions at McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology – <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/edmund-carpenter-dialogues-diversions-digressions-tickets-28181111463">more info here</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Oct. 16&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Town Hall meeting: Rethinking the Global Village in an era of Cities and Soft Power at Isabel Bader Theatre – <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/town-hall-meeting-tickets-27729765475?aff=erelpanelorg">more info here</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:50:47 +0000 Romi Levine 101409 at Vice-President, University of Toronto Communications, Office of the /node/13996 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Vice-President, University of Toronto Communications, Office of the</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>smithna5</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-05-04T12:24:54-04:00" title="Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 12:24" class="datetime">Wed, 05/04/2016 - 12:24</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-url field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">URL</div> <div class="field__item">https://communications.utoronto.ca</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-above clearfix"> <h3 class="field__label">Tags</h3> <ul class="links field__items"> <li><a href="/news/tags/utc" hreflang="en">UTC</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/communications" hreflang="en">communications</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Campus</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6953" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> Wed, 04 May 2016 16:24:54 +0000 smithna5 13996 at