On Friday, May 15th, Dr Laikwan Pang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Dr Thomas Lamarre (McGill University) delivered a pair of engaging and complex keynote lectures to kick off “Porting Media: Asia”, a three day conference/workshop investigating the infrastructure, circulation, and practices associated with portable technologies in Asia. Dr Pang’s lecture, titled “The Social, the Private, and the Political: The Use of Social Media in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement”,

From May 15th-17th Concordia will host “Porting Media: Asia”, a conference investigating the circulation and infrastructure of portable media. This conference will feature a series of panels, presentations and workshops, including two exceptional keynote lectures: Laikwan Pang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) presenting “The Social, the Private, and the Political: The Use of Social Media in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement” & Thomas Lamarre (McGill University) presenting “E