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In communications, alumna finds way to help hometown connect
Western News, May 17, 2018
By Keri Ferguson
When Ann Lamanes came to Western in 1996, she hoped to study Geography and perhaps pursue a career in urban planning. But rapid technological advances changed the map – and her plans.
“With the Internet being so new, I just got steered in a totally different direction,” Lamanes, BA’00 (Media, Information and Technoculture), said. “I remember a girl in my residence at Saugeen chatting online with a guy she met overseas. Even just this idea of online chatting and text messaging was not even something any of us knew about.
“I thought, ‘Where is this Internet thing going?’’
In her first year, the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) had just launched its Media, Information and Technoculture (MIT) program where students focus on modern communication and information technologies and how they influence life in ways many may not even recognize (continue reading).
