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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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COMM 1420U – Living Digitally: Social Media, Culture & Society

What does it mean to ‘live digitally’ and why shouldn’t we just accept the digital world as it’s presented to us by the big social media players? The integration of social media with society has transformed the communication and media environment, and reconfigured economies, politics, and cultures, even our sense of ourselves. This course gives students an honest and sometimes startling look under the hood of some of today’s most popular Internet and social media platforms, products, markets, and services, moving beyond the buzz to examine how history, social power relations, economics, politics and policy, identity, and ethics are actively colliding to shape the digital world as we experience it today. It considers the drivers, roles and impacts of social media on societies, past, present and future. Students learn to think critically about social media in contemporary society and culture, and examine how it intersects with and impacts their own lives.