Events

Social Media for Our Children and Ourselves

Wednesday, February 22,  2017 at 6:30pm

Online violence and promiscuity on social media have become a major issue for parents and educators alike. This new “expository society” as defined by Bernard Harcourt is putting at risk the freedom of our children and our privacy as well. The experts on this panel will help us apprehend the dangers of this new situation and give us some tips to better regulate our consumption of social media.

With Catherine Blaya was a Lecturer at the IUFM of Aquitaine, as well as IREDU (University of Burgundy) before becoming a Professor of Education Sciences at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Her research focuses on comparative studies regarding school violence problems, juvenile delinquency, school dropout and cyberbullying. She is President of the International Observatory on Violence in School, she served on the Committee of Sponsoring the Coordination for education for non-violence and peace.
Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought.  Alumnus from the LFNY, Bernard Harcourt is the author of Exposed:  Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age.

Moderated byJeffrey Kluger, Editor-at-large, Time magazine

In English, with French translation available.

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