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Over lunch, Ken Steele will provide an entertaining and somewhat cynical multimedia review of recent higher ed highs and lows in social media. The past year saw plenty of social media gaffes and controversies, petitions and protests, complaints and expulsions on Canadian campuses. Students behaved badly in videos of frosh chants, in supposedly private Facebook groups, and on anonymous gossip and chat sites. We heard about cyberbullying of students, professors, and student politicians, and a wide range of sexism and sexual harassment. But we also saw some genuinely amusing April Fool’s day pranks, some well-intentioned music videos, and some heartwarming positive social media efforts. Are we talking about you? You’ll have to stick around to find out!