Nora Young

Nora has a love/hate relationship with technology, culture, and armchair sociology, which she pursues on CBC Radio, on television, in print, and online. Nora started with CBC as the founding host and a producer of Definitely not the Opera, where she was a frequent commenter on technology and popular culture. She creates miniseries and documentaries for shows such as Ideas, and is the technology columnist for CBC Radio afternoon shows. Games, Groups, and Good Deeds: How Pop Culture and New Technology Can Open Minds and Further Innovation Contemporary technologies offer a host of new ways to connect, create, organize, and communicate. They also offer savvy pop culture creators opportunities to bring people together to collaborate and innovate by using entertainment. Nora Young talks about some of the best new uses of tech and pop culture to foster innovation, from street theatre to video gaming for the greater good.

Appearing at these conference event(s):

• Nov. 15, 2008 - Pop Culture and Social Change

Parkland Conferences participated in:

Parkland Fall Conference 2008

Multimedia:

Pop Culture and Social Change

Dennis Soron: The Politics of the Popular: Reframing the Debate

Nora Young: Games, Groups, and Good Deeds: How Pop Culture and New Technology Can Open Minds and Further Innovation

More info:

http://www.cbc.ca/spark/?copy-host