{"id":6679,"date":"2018-03-01T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:14:33","slug":"kara-brisson-boivin-becomes-director-research-media-smarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2018\/kara-brisson-boivin-becomes-director-research-media-smarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Brisson-Boivin becomes Director of Research at Media Smarts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Kara Brisson-Boivin becomes Director of Research at Media Smarts\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>We are very pleased to congratulate Kara Brisson-Boivin (our recent Sociology PhD graduate) who has accepted a position with the national non-profit MediaSmarts as the Director of Research. MediaSmarts is Canada&#8217;s centre for Digital and Media Literacy. Through education, public awareness, and research and policy the organization supports adults with information and tools so they can help children and teens develop the critical thinking skills they need for interacting with the media they love. Kara will continue her undergraduate teaching and her work as the graduate student transitions mentor until the end of April, and will be maintaining and building research collaboration with the Department in her new position.<br>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/mediasmarts.ca\/\">http:\/\/mediasmarts.ca\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to congratulate Kara Brisson-Boivin (our recent Sociology PhD graduate) who has accepted a position with the national non-profit MediaSmarts as the Director of Research. MediaSmarts is Canada&#8217;s centre for Digital and Media Literacy. Through education, public awareness, and research and policy the organization supports adults with information and tools so they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fass-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20796,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/20796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}