Despite the fact that social media web sites like Flickr are worth millions of dollars, the users who generate nearly all the content for them are surprisingly comfortable with their labour being “unwaged,” according to a new communications professor.
“The thought of someone else making money off their work doesn’t hold much sway with Flickr members,” said Brian A. Brown, an assistant professor who joined the department of Communication, Media and Film this fall.
JoAnn Sabourin can pass a test. The test centre specialist in the Office of the Registrar aced Thursday’s DailyNews quiz and won two tickets to an Afternoon Jazz concert with the Dave Bennett quartet, Sunday, October 28, at 2:30 p.m. in the Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre, 3277 Sandwich Street.
Sabourin’s name was drawn from all respondents who correctly identified Doug Cobb as a drummer like Gene Krupa, Woody Herman as the leader of the Thundering Herd, and a Harlem ballroom as the setting for Stompin’ at the Savoy.
A UWindsor law professor is in western Ukraine as part of a mission to help monitor Sunday’s parliamentary elections amid concerns expressed by the Canadian government regarding the former Soviet bloc country’s commitment to international standards of human rights, democracy and rule of law.
A marketing campaign rolling out this month depicts the decision process students undertake when choosing a university, and reassures them that they won’t get lost in the crowd at the University of Windsor.
The campaign ranges across a number of media in southwestern Ontario markets, says chief communications officer Holly Ward. Print advertising includes daily and community newspapers, placards in public transit and posters in shopping malls. Commercials will run before movies in cinemas and on radio stations.
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to “Afternoon Jazz,” a concert featuring the Dave Bennett Quartet on Sunday, October 28, at 2:30 p.m. in the Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre, 3277 Sandwich Street.
A project that places teacher candidates from China in Windsor schools has won recognition from two international development agencies.
Casa Canadiense and Pueblito Canada made the Great Essex County District School Board an inaugural recipient of the Global Education Award, which recognizes exemplary school-based projects, for its contribution to the partnership in the teacher education Reciprocal Learning Program between the University of Windsor and Southwest University China.
Children can give their Hallowe'en costumes a dress rehearsal on campus Tuesday, October 30, as residence students host Boo at the U. University employees are invited to bring their children to the Katzman Lounge, Vanier Hall, at 6 p.m.
Residence Life Staff, members of the Windsor Inter Residence Council, and volunteers representing each residence hall will give little trick-or-treaters their own treat bag. Guests then make the rounds to each station for activities and candy in a spooky but safe environment.
Door prizes and refreshments await attendees at the Faculty & Staff Wellness Fair on Tuesday, October 30, in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium.
The event offers UWindsor employees information on a variety of health and wellness topics, says Marcela Ciampa, manager of employee engagement and development in Human Resources.
It will run 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Interactive stations will allow patrons to:
Impulse is the catalyst of an argument and initiates the decisions that follow, says philosophy professor Christopher Tindale.
“Impulses do not arise from nowhere; they are related to past states,” he says. “I am interested in how the impulse for anything begins, and how our resulting arguments are directly affected by how we make choices.”
He will explore the origin of impulse as a stimulus for argumentation in a free public lecture entitled “Inventing Arguments” on Friday, October 26, at 2 p.m. in room 207, Essex Hall.
A free public seminar Friday morning is the latest in a series sponsored by the Windsor History of Economic Thought Club.
David Laidler, a professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, will deliver “Two Crises, Two Ideas and One Question” at 10 a.m. October 26 in room G125, Chrysler Hall North.
