Event Date: March 10, 2020 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: FSS5028, 120 University Private, Ottawa

Presented by CIPS and the University Research Chair in Global Political Thought

Andrew A. G. Ross will be presenting a talk titled “Digital Media Practices, Popular Participation and Global Politics”. There is growing interest in the cultural and political impact of visual materials such as cartoons, photographs, memes, and viral videos in international and global politics. Yet this focus on the visual image comes at a time when everyday digital media practices are disrupting conventional distinctions between visual, auditory, haptic, and linguistic. Using examples from everyday social media activities relating to US foreign policy, this talk explores the ways that digital mediation and communication are shifting traditional conceptions of expertise and authority and creating conditions for specific forms of populist politics with important implications for foreign policy and political action.

Andrew A. G. Ross is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. His current research seeks to understand the impact of digital media on conventional forms of political authority in international and global politics. He is the author of Mixed Emotions: Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2014), as well as articles on emotion and emotional politics in the European Journal of International Relations, International Theory, International Organization, Millennium, and Political Psychology.